Etiquetado guiado por afinidad revela la redistribución de la membrana a nanoescala de P2X7 durante la activación de

Benoit Arnould1, Adeline Martz1, Pauline Belzanne2

  • 1Laboratoire de Chémo-Biologie Synthétique et Thérapeutique (CBST) UMR 7199, équipe Ingénierie Canaux Ioniques, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France.

eLife
|January 9, 2026
PubMed
Resumen

La nueva sonda química X7-uP visualiza los receptores P2X7 en la microglía. Esto revela cómo los canales P2X7 se agrupan durante la inflamación, afectando la liberación de interleucina-1β y ofreciendo información terapéutica.

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