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Published on: February 4, 2016
Imaging the static dielectric constant in vitro and in living cells by a bioconjugable GFP chromophore analog
Giovanni Signore1, Gerardo Abbandonato, Barbara Storti
1Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @ NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pisa, Italy.
Abstract:
A fluorescent probe structurally similar to the GFP chromophore is demonstrated to report the local static dielectric constant. This probe can be chemically functionalized for selective targeting at the intracellular level.

