F. Doria, M. Nadai, M. Zuffo, R. Perrone, M. Freccero and S. N. Richter
Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 2268-2271
DOI:
10.1039/C6CC08492C,
Communication
Aggregation, red-NIR emission and light-up upon nucleic acid G-quadruplex binding have been investigated for a prototype core-extended naphthalene diimide, which is capable of fast cellular entry and nucleolar localization. Both high-level colocalization with an anti-G-quadruplex antibody and nucleolin displacement reveal that the compound targets and thus makes visible nuclear DNA G-quadruplexes.