| Literature DB >> 26151942 |
Douglas A MacKenzie1, Allison R Sherratt, Mariya Chigrinova, Arnold J Kell, John Paul Pezacki.
Abstract
Unnatural D-amino acids bearing endocyclic nitrones were developed for live-cell labelling of the bacterial peptidoglycan layer. Metabolic incorporation of D-Lys and D-Ala derivatives bearing different endocyclic nitrones was observed in E. coli, L. innocua, and L. lactis. The incorporated nitrones of these bacteria then rapidly underwent strain-promoted alkyne-nitrone cycloaddition (SPANC) reactions affording chemically modified bacteria.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26151942 DOI: 10.1039/c5cc04901f
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Commun (Camb) ISSN: 1359-7345 Impact factor: 6.222