On the mechanisms of uptake of tumor-seeking cyanine dyes SM Usama, CM Lin, K Burgess Bioconjugate chemistry 29 (11), 3886-3895, 2018 | 91 | 2018 |
Role of albumin in accumulation and persistence of tumor-seeking cyanine dyes SM Usama, GK Park, S Nomura, Y Baek, HS Choi, K Burgess Bioconjugate chemistry 31 (2), 248-259, 2020 | 80 | 2020 |
Optimized heptamethine cyanines for photodynamic therapy SM Usama, S Thavornpradit, K Burgess ACS Applied Bio Materials 1 (4), 1195-1205, 2018 | 71 | 2018 |
QuatCy: a heptamethine cyanine modification with improved characteristics S Thavornpradit, SM Usama, GK Park, JP Shrestha, S Nomura, Y Baek, ... Theranostics 9 (10), 2856, 2019 | 62 | 2019 |
Norcyanine-carbamates are versatile near-infrared fluorogenic probes SM Usama, F Inagaki, H Kobayashi, MJ Schnermann Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (15), 5674-5679, 2021 | 57 | 2021 |
Hows and whys of tumor-seeking dyes SM Usama, K Burgess Accounts of chemical research 54 (9), 2121-2131, 2021 | 42 | 2021 |
Site-specific labeling of proteins with near-ir heptamethine cyanine dyes CM Lin, SM Usama, K Burgess Molecules 23 (11), 2900, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
Cyanine–gemcitabine conjugates as targeted theranostic agents for glioblastoma tumor cells Z Jiang, K Pflug, SM Usama, D Kuai, X Yan, R Sitcheran, K Burgess Journal of medicinal chemistry 62 (20), 9236-9245, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
Not so innocent: Impact of fluorophore chemistry on the in vivo properties of bioconjugates SM Usama, ER Thapaliya, MP Luciano, MJ Schnermann Current opinion in chemical biology 63, 38-45, 2021 | 32 | 2021 |
Productive Manipulation of Cyanine Dye π‐Networks SM Usama, T Thompson, K Burgess Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58 (27), 8974-8976, 2019 | 32 | 2019 |
Doubly Strapped Zwitterionic NIR‐I and NIR‐II Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes for Bioconjugation and Fluorescence Imaging DH Li, RS Gamage, AG Oliver, NL Patel, S Muhammad Usama, JD Kalen, ... Angewandte Chemie 135 (28), e202305062, 2023 | 28 | 2023 |
A near-IR fluorescent dasatinib derivative that localizes in cancer cells SM Usama, B Zhao, K Burgess Bioconjugate chemistry 30 (4), 1175-1181, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
Targeted Fluorogenic Cyanine Carbamates Enable In Vivo Analysis of Antibody–Drug Conjugate Linker Chemistry SM Usama, SC Marker, DR Caldwell, NL Patel, Y Feng, JD Kalen, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (51), 21667-21675, 2021 | 22 | 2021 |
Method to diversify cyanine chromophore functionality enables improved biomolecule tracking and intracellular imaging SM Usama, SC Marker, DH Li, DR Caldwell, M Stroet, NL Patel, AG Tebo, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (27), 14647-14659, 2023 | 20 | 2023 |
Cyanine phototruncation enables spatiotemporal cell labeling H Fukushima, SS Matikonda, SM Usama, A Furusawa, T Kato, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (25), 11075-11080, 2022 | 20 | 2022 |
Conjugation of Dasatinib with MHI‐148 Has a Significant Advantageous Effect in Viability Assays for Glioblastoma Cells SM Usama, Z Jiang, K Pflug, R Sitcheran, K Burgess ChemMedChem 14 (17), 1575-1579, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
Fluorescent kinase inhibitors as probes in cancer SM Usama, B Zhao, K Burgess Chemical Society Reviews 50 (17), 9794-9816, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
Protein labelling and albumin binding characteristics of the near-IR Cy7 fluorophore, QuatCy S Thavornpradit, SM Usama, CM Lin, K Burgess Organic & biomolecular chemistry 17 (30), 7150-7154, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
A zwitterionic near-infrared dye linked TrkC targeting agent for imaging metastatic breast cancer Z Yang, SM Usama, F Li, K Burgess, Z Li MedChemComm 9 (10), 1754-1760, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
Coumarins to cyanines: synthesis of hemicyanines DR Caldwell, SM Usama, MJ Schnermann Organic letters 23 (22), 8857-8861, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |