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Membrane-SPINE: A Biochemical Tool to Identify Protein-protein Interactions of Membrane Proteins In Vivo
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Selective recognition of bacterial membranes by zinc(II)-coordination complexes
W Matthew Leevy1, James R Johnson, C Lakshmi
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 251 Nieuwland Science Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 4, 2006
Abstract:
Two fluorophore-dipicolylamine-Zn2+ conjugates are shown by epifluorescence microscopy to stain the membranes of bacterial cells in preference to mammalian cells.
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