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Radoslaw M Kierat1, Roland Krämer
1Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|September 6, 2005
Abstract:
Bis(picolinoyl)fluorescein, a new fluorogenic and chromogenic probe for monitoring the esterase activity of metal ions, has been synthesized. The probe is highly selective for Cu2+ and is applicable both to quantification of the free ion and detection of esterolytic activity of Cu bound to organic ligands or biomolecules, with a detection limit of 100 nM by fluorimetry.

