Xin Li, Hao Jiang, Zhaofeng Luo, Young-Tae Chang and Liyun Zhang
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 9086-9088
DOI:
10.1039/C6CC00439C,
Communication
A fluorescent sensor – InR – with disaggregation-induced emission (DIE) characteristics has been developed for the label free detection of RecA inteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mechanistic studies demonstrate that InR binds at a hydrophobic pocket of RecA inteins, which is constituted by Gly435, Glu434, Arg405 and Arg 7, resulting in the disaggregation and recovery of its fluorescence.