Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Science, 10(2), p. 1984
DOI: 10.1039/c1sc00108f
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Designed terbium-chelating peptides were used to monitor the formation of leucine zipper associations. The sensing strategy is based on the modulation of the antenna effect from a Trp residue donor and the luminescence increase arising from the folding that takes place upon the formation of the coiled-coil structure. An application in the specific sensing of the oncogenic c-Jun transcription factor is demonstrated.