Lowery R, Gibson MI, Thompson RL, Fullam E. Deuterated carbohydrate probes as 'label-free' substrates for probing nutrient uptake in mycobacteria by nuclear reaction analysis.
Chem Commun (Camb) 2015;
51:4838-41. [PMID:
25695462 PMCID:
PMC4774366 DOI:
10.1039/c4cc09588j]
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Abstract
Deuterated sugars that are transported into mycobacteria can be detected using ion beam (nuclear reaction) analysis.
Understanding and probing small molecule uptake in cells is challenging, requiring sterically large chemical labels, or radioactive isotopes. Here, the uptake of deuterated sugars by Mycobacterium smegmatis, a non-pathogenic model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has been investigated using ion-beam (nuclear reaction) analysis demonstrating a new technique for label-free nutrient acquisition measurement.
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