Reconocimiento selectivo de los motivos de la proteína tetraserina con un ácido bis-borónico pro-fluorescente y

Tiffany L Halo1, Jacob Appelbaum, Elissa M Hobert

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron RhoBo, un nuevo ácido bisborónico derivado de la rodamina, como un sensor fluorescente permeable a las células para secuencias de proteínas específicas. Este avance ofrece una alternativa prometedora a las proteínas fluorescentes para aplicaciones de imágenes celulares.

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