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SUBMITTER: Santos EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7379159 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Santos Elizabeth M EM Berbasova Tetyana T Wang Wenjing W Salmani Rahele Esmatpour RE Sheng Wei W Vasileiou Chrysoula C Geiger James H JH Borhan Babak B
Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology 20191113 5
A reengineered human cellular retinol binding protein II (hCRBPII), a 15-kDa protein belonging to the intracellular lipid binding protein (iLBP) family, generates a highly fluorescent red pigment through the covalent linkage of a merocyanine aldehyde to an active site lysine residue. The complex exhibits "turn-on" fluorescence, due to a weakly fluorescent aldehyde that "lights up" with subsequent formation of a strongly fluorescent merocyanine dye within the binding pocket of the protein. Cellul ...[more]