Molecular and Spectroscopic Characterization of Green and Red Cyanine Fluorophores from the Alexa Fluor and AF Series

Christian Gebhardt; Martin Lehmann; Maria M Reif; Martin Zacharias; Gerd Gemmecker; Thorben Cordes

doi:10.1002/cphc.202100509

Molecular and Spectroscopic Characterization of Green and Red Cyanine Fluorophores from the Alexa Fluor and AF Series

Chemphyschem. 2021 Aug 4;22(15):1546. doi: 10.1002/cphc.202100509.

Authors

Christian Gebhardt¹, Martin Lehmann², Maria M Reif³, Martin Zacharias³, Gerd Gemmecker⁴, Thorben Cordes¹

Affiliations

¹ Physical and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhadernerstr. 2-4, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
² Plant Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhadernerstr. 2-4, 82152, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
³ Theoretical Biophysics (T38), Physics Department, Technical University of Munich, Center for Functional Protein Assemblies (CPA), Ernst-Otto-Fischer-Str. 8, 85748 Garching, Germany.
⁴ Bavarian NMR Center (B NMRZ), Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85748, Garching, Germany.

PMID: 34352157
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202100509

Abstract

The front cover artwork was provided by Gabriel Moya, a PhD student in the Cordes lab (LMU Biocenter Munich, Germany). The cover image shows an artistic impression of the chemical structures of two fluorophores investigated in the paper. Read the full text of the Article at 10.1002/cphc.202000935.