Review Article

Neutrophil Elastase Activity Imaging: Recent Approaches in the Design and Applications of Activity-Based Probes and Substrate-Based Probes

Figure 2

Overall principle of activity-based probe (ABP). Warhead (grey triangle) structurally matches with the target protease (purple). Active ABP can be detected by the tag (blue star). AA1-AAn indicates amino acid position in the specific peptide.