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SUBMITTER: Nandi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4939762 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biophysical journal 20160501 9
Elucidating the dynamic properties of membranes is important for understanding fundamental cellular processes and for shedding light on the interactions of proteins, drugs, and viruses with the cell surface. Dynamic studies of lipid bilayers have been constrained, however, by the relatively small number of pertinent molecular probes and the limited physicochemical properties of the probes. We show that a lipid conjugate comprised of a fluorescent carbon dot (C-dot) covalently attached to a phosp ...[more]