LD-CK

LD-CK is a fluorescent probe based on a coumarin-chromone structure, specifically designed to visualize lipid droplet polarity changes and endowed with multimodal imaging capability. LD-CK contains a high-performance lipophilic coumarin moiety, which enables it to specifically target lipid droplets upon cellular entry while minimizing background fluorescence to the greatest extent. LD-CK has an excitation wavelength (Ex) of 488 nm and an emission wavelength (Em) of 540 nm (in low-polarity environments such as toluene) or 640 nm (in high-polarity environments such as glycerol), with its emission peak undergoing a redshift as solvent polarity increases[1].