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Schematic example of the mechanism behind an activatable probe. The probe is dark in its native state, thereby keeping unwanted background signals to a minimum (a). After cleavage of the backbone carrier by a specific enzyme, the probe will fluoresce when excited with light of a defined wavelength (b)
