Environmentally Sensitive Fluorescent Sensors Based on Synthetic Peptides
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Environmentally Sensitive Fluorescent Sensors Based on Synthetic Peptides
Biosensors allow the direct detection of molecular analytes, by associating a biological receptor with a transducer able to convert the analyte-receptor recognition event into a measurable signal. We review recent work aimed at developing synthetic fluorescent molecular sensors for a variety of analytes, based on peptidic receptors labeled with environmentally sensitive fluorophores. Fluorescen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sensors
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s100403126