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Luminescence Resonance Energy Transfer to Study Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins Expressed in Mammalian Cells
Published on: September 16, 2014
Structural studies in aqueous solution of new binuclear lanthanide luminescent peptide conjugates
Célia S Bonnet1, Marc Devocelle, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson
1Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. gunnlaut@tcd.ie
Abstract:
The synthesis, NMR and luminescent analysis of a novel polypeptide possessing a sensitising naphthalimide antenna at the amino terminus, and a model compound with a Trp moiety, and their Eu(iii) and Tb(iii) complexes are described.
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