The synthesis of 2'-deoxycytidine and its 5'-O-triphosphate bearing solvatochromic acetophenyl-thienyl-aniline fluorophore was developed using the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction as the key step. The triphosphate was used for polymerase synthesis of labelled DNA. The labelled nucleotide or DNA exerted weak red fluorescence when excited at 405 nm, but a significant colour change (to yellow or green) and light-up (up to 20 times) was observed when the DNA probes interacted with proteins or lipids.

Department of Organic Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University Prague Hlavova 8 12843 Prague 2 Czech Republic

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo nam 2 16000 Prague 6 Czech Republic

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