posted on 2024-01-02, 19:15authored byBinod Rayamajhee, Mark Willcox, Fiona L. Henriquez, Ajay Kumar Vijay, Constantinos Petsoglou, Gauri Shankar Shrestha, Hari Kumar Peguda, Nicole Carnt
Trophozoites containing intracellular bacteria were exposed to AlkDala, facilitating its incorporation into the cell wall peptidoglycan, followed by a copper–catalysed click–chemistry reaction with an Azide–fluorophore (represented by green stars) to identify bacteria carrying the incorporated probe.