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Inside Cover: Planarizable Push–Pull Probes: Overtwisted Flipper Mechanophores (ChemPlusChem 7/2017)
Author(s) -
Macchione Mariano,
Chuard Nicolas,
Sakai Naomi,
Matile Stefan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chempluschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.801
H-Index - 61
ISSN - 2192-6506
DOI - 10.1002/cplu.201700265
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , mechanosensitive channels , chromophore , lipid bilayer , bilayer , biophysics , nanotechnology , membrane , chemistry , materials science , biology , biochemistry , engineering , photochemistry , mechanical engineering , receptor , ion channel
The cover picture shows the color change of shrimps during cooking, a combination of deplanarization and depolarization of chromophores that has inspired the development of twisted dithienothiophene dimers as sensors in lipid bilayer membranes. The promise is to image forces in cells using such mechanosensitive fluorescent probes, but beware of overtwisting. Details are given in the Full Paper by Stefan Matile and co‐workers on page 1062 in Issue 7, 2017 (DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201600634).