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A Microscopic Phenotypic Assay for the Quantification of Intracellular Mycobacteria Adapted for High-throughput/High-content Screening
Published on: January 17, 2014
Imaging of antitubercular dimeric boronic acids at the mycobacterial cell surface by click-probe capture
Collette S Guy1, Ruben M F Tomás2,3, Qiao Tang2
1School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK. e.fullam@warwick.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Dimeric boronic acids kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) by targeting mycobacterial specific extracellular glycans, removing the requirement for a therapeutic agent to permeate the complex cell envelope. Here we report the successful development and use of new 'clickable' boronic acid probes as a powerful method to enable the direct detection and visualisation of this unique class of cell-surface targeting antitubercular agents.

