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Multi-color Localization Microscopy of Single Membrane Proteins in Organelles of Live Mammalian Cells
Published on: June 30, 2018
Self-organizing carbohydrate-oligothiophene-hybrids for eukaryotic membrane-labelling
Sylvia Schmid1, E Marion Schneider, Eduard Brier
1Institute of Organic Chemistry II and Advanced Materials, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany. sylvia.schmid@uni-ulm.de.
Abstract:
We report synthesis and photophysical characterization of d-(+) and l-(-) mannose terminated oligothiophene hybrids. In polar environment fluorescently quenched suprastructures were formed. Fluorescence was recovered by integration of the hybrids into phospholipidic bilayers of artificial vesicles as well as membrane compartments of myeloid cells, a defined hematopoetic lineage.
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