Issue 17, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Imaging the static dielectric constant in vitro and in living cells by a bioconjugable GFP chromophore analog†

Giovanni Signore,‡a   Gerardo Abbandonato,‡ab   Barbara Storti,ab   Martin Stöckl,§c   Vinod Subramaniamc  and  Ranieri Bizzarri*bd  

* Corresponding authors

a Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @ NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pisa, Italy

b NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze – CNR, Pisa, Italy
E-mail: r.bizzarri@sns.it

c Nanobiophysics, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology and MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands

d Istituto di Biofisica – CNR, via Moruzzi 1, Pisa, Italy

Abstract

A fluorescent probe structurally similar to the GFP chromophore is demonstrated to report the local static dielectric constant. This probe can be chemically functionalized for selective targeting at the intracellular level.

Graphical abstract: Imaging the static dielectric constant in vitro and in living cells by a bioconjugable GFP chromophore analog

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC38071H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Nov 2012
Accepted
10 Jan 2013
First published
11 Jan 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 1723-1725

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Imaging the static dielectric constant in vitro and in living cells by a bioconjugable GFP chromophore analog

G. Signore, G. Abbandonato, B. Storti, M. Stöckl, V. Subramaniam and R. Bizzarri, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 1723 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC38071H

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