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Lighting up Mycobacteria with membrane-targeting peptides

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: l - and d -Enantiomers of the MAD1 peptide were decorated with fluorophores ranging from green to far-red. Two of the probes successfully labelled Mycobacterium tuberculosis offering a promising tool for the selective detection of mycobacteria.

Source: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

DOI: 10.1039/d4ob01333f

Authors: Zainab S. Alghamdi, Richa Sharma, Nancy Kiruthiga, Muhammed Üçüncü, Maxime Klausen, Mithun Santra, Uma Devi, Seshasailam Venkateswaran, Annamaria Lilienkampf, Mark Bradley

Institutions: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, University of Edinburgh, Indian Council of Medical Research, National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis, Izmir Kâtip Çelebi University, Queen Mary University of London

Language: English

Topic: Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Royal Society, European Commission, Ministry of Education – Kingdom of Saudi Arabi, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Science and Engineering Research Board

Awards: G434337789, Accurate, Rapid, Robust and Economical diagnostic technoliogieS for Tuberculosis

OpenAlex ID: W4403198993

FWCI: 0.308

Cites: 34

Cited by: 1

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