BODIPY-TS (also known as Thiol-green 2) is a highly efficient thiol-specific turn-on probe with a fast response. It incorporates a thiosulfonate scaffold as its thiol recognition unit. BODIPY-TS displays excellent selectivity, low detection limit, and quantitative reactivity towards thiols. Moreover, it exhibits low toxicity. Notably, BODIPY-TS exhibits excitation at 490 nm and emission at 515 nm.
5MP-Fluorescein (compound 3e), a fluorescein dye derived from 5-Methylene pyrrolone (5MP), exemplifies a bioconjugation tool that is both highly thiol-specific and can be removed without a trace [1].
Naph-EA-mal (Thiol-green 1) is a highly efficient and quick-responding thiol fluorescence probe specifically designed for protein labeling and bioimaging applications. This compound offers a rapid detection method and exhibits ultrafast turn-on fluorescence upon interaction with thiols. Naph-EA-mal (Thiol-green 1) enables the detection of thiols in live cells, facilitates the labeling of protein thiols, enables quantification of total thiol concentration in cell lysate, and allows for the determination of reversible protein thiol oxidation in fixed cells. It possesses an excitation wavelength of 488 nM and an emission wavelength of 540 nM.
BDP 630/650 maleimide, a fluorophore compatible with the Cyanine5 channel, is valuable for fluorescence lifetime measurements due to its extended excited state lifetime [1].
NIR-Thiol dinitrobenzenesulfonate has both absorption and emission in the NIR region. It is capable of imaging endogenously produced thiol in living cells and mice.
N-(3-Fluoranthyl)maleimide, a thiol fluorescent probe with a lifetime of 20 nsec, has a maximum excitation wavelength of 370 nm and is suitable for studying time-dependent processes of biopolymers [1].