AI-Driven Acceleration of Fluorescence Probe Discovery. (PubMed, Adv Sci (Weinh))
Focusing on three clinically relevant targets (tau, BCL-2, and TDP-43), we validated AI-identified candidates and discovered PE859, obatoclax, and B3, which supported applications in spectral analysis, drug screening, pathological labeling, cell imaging, and ex vivo tumor imaging...With improved photophysical properties, 859-2 enabled in vivo two-photon imaging of tau pathology in transgenic mice. This hybrid AI-bioassay strategy substantially broadens the accessible scaffold landscape for designing target-specific fluorescence probes and provides a scalable, efficient, and cost-effective framework for next-generation probe discovery.