Trifunctional sphingomyelins for Visualisation of Infectious Processes (IMAGE)

University of Würzburg

Trifunctional sphingomyelins for Visualisation of Infectious Processes

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Novel trifunctional sphingomyelins (TFSM) can be used to visualise Chlamydia inclusions within infected human cells and enables the detection of native sphingomyelin derivatives in non-infectious reticulate bodies (yellow circles) and metabolized sphingomyelin derivatives in infectious elementary bodies (green dots).

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Jürgen Seibel / University of Würzburg

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