Monitoring protein interactions and dynamics with solvatochromic fluorophores
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Monitoring protein interactions and dynamics with solvatochromic fluorophores.
Solvatochromic fluorophores possess emission properties that are sensitive to the nature of the local microenvironment. These dyes have been exploited in applications ranging from the study of protein structural dynamics to the detection of protein-binding interactions. Although the solvatochromic indole fluorophore of tryptophan has been utilized extensively for in vitro studies to advance our...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Biotechnology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0167-7799
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2009.11.002