A labelled-ubiquicidin antimicrobial peptide for immediate in situ optical detection of live bacteria in human alveolar lung tissue

Authors: Ahsan R. Akram, Nicolaos Avlonitis, Annamaria Lilienkampf, Ana M. Pérez‐López, Neil McDonald, Sunay V. Chankeshwara, Emma Scholefield, Christopher Haslett, Mark Bradley, Kevin Dhaliwal - Chemical Science 2015 cited by 92

was modified for stability in the presence of human lung bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, for affinity to bacterial membranes and functionality in human lung tissue. The optimized cyclic structure yields an optical molecular Smartprobe for bacterial detection in human lung tissue.