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Application of Fluorescent Nanoparticles to Study Remodeling of the Endo-lysosomal System by Intracellular Bacteria
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Fluorescent organic nanoparticle formation in lysosomes for cancer cell recognition
Hsin-Hung Lin1, Sheng-Yuan Su, Cheng-Chung Chang
1Department of Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University, 250, Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung, 402, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|May 8, 2009
Abstract:
We present a convenient method to prepare fluorophores 3- or 3,7-divinyl substituted 10H-phenothiazines and their protonation forms can aggregate to become fluorescent organic nanoparticles (FONs) with bright fluorescent spots in the lysosomes of cancer cells but not normal cells.

