Bioorthogonal labelling of living bacteria using unnatural amino acids containing nitrones and a nitrone derivative of vancomycin

Douglas A. MacKenzie, Allison R. Sherratt, Mariya Chigrinova, Arnold J. Kell, John Paul Pezacki
2015 Chemical Communications  
Unnatural d-amino acids bearing endocyclic nitrones were developed for live-cell labelling of the bacterial peptidoglycan layer.
doi:10.1039/c5cc04901f pmid:26151942 fatcat:vza6uqvwfzefznzpikx2n5d3gu