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Highly selective fluorescence imaging of zinc distribution in HeLa cells and Arabidopsis using a naphthalene-based
Ji Ha Lee1, Jin Hyeok Lee, Sung Ho Jung
1Department of Chemistry and Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea. jonghwa@gnu.ac.kr.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 2, 2015
Abstract:
2-(N,N-Dimethylamino)naphthalene-based probe 1 was found to exhibit a dramatic enhancement in fluorescence upon addition of Zn(2+), but not with any other metal ions. Probe 1 as a chemoprobe enabled high-resolution fluorescence imaging of zinc ions in HeLa cells and Arabidopsis.
