Issue 11, 2012
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New Journal of Chemistry

Photodynamic inactivation of Escherichia coli by porphyrin cytochrome c†

Guoyu Jiang,a   Wanhua Lei,ab   Yuanjun Houa  and  Xuesong Wang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
E-mail: xswang@mail.ipc.ac.cn
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b Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Abstract

The positively charged porphyrin cytochrome c (porphyrin Cyt c) was found to be able to bind to Escherichia coli, and showed efficient antimicrobial activity upon visible light irradiation, opening avenues for the development of protein-loaded photoinactivation agents against Gram-negative bacteria.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2NJ40615B
Article type
Letter
Submitted
17 Jul 2012
Accepted
23 Aug 2012
First published
24 Aug 2012

New J. Chem., 2012,36, 2180-2183

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Photodynamic inactivation of Escherichia coli by porphyrin cytochrome c

G. Jiang, W. Lei, Y. Hou and X. Wang, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 2180 DOI: 10.1039/C2NJ40615B

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