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SUBMITTER: Chyan W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3890804 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Chyan Wen W Zhang Daniel Y DY Lippard Stephen J SJ Radford Robert J RJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20131212 1
Chelatable, mobile forms of divalent zinc, Zn(II), play essential signaling roles in mammalian biology. A complex network of zinc import and transport proteins has evolved to control zinc concentration and distribution on a subcellular level. Understanding the action of mobile zinc requires tools that can detect changes in Zn(II) concentrations at discrete cellular locales. We present here a zinc-responsive, reaction-based, targetable probe based on the diacetyled form of Zinpyr-1. The compound, ...[more]