Multicolor Labeling of Living‐Virus Particles in Live Cells

Peng Zhou, Zhenhua Zheng, Wen Lu, Fuxian Zhang, Zhenfeng Zhang, Dai‐Wen Pang, Bin Hu, Zhike He, Hanzhong Wang

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2011 · 34 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

Dual-color virus particles were obtained by labeling a glycoprotein (GP64) on the surface of a baculovirus with a green fluorescent protein (GFP) and labeling the nucleic acid (dsDNA) at the same time with the red fluorescent [Ru(phen)2(dppz)]2+ complex during the viral replication in host cells, by using an in vivo virus self-assembly system. This labeling strategy does not affect the viral infectivity.

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