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A phosphorescent iridium complex as a probe for diatom cells’ viability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2020

G. Leone
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università. degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy IIT-CNST, Via G. Pascoli, 70, 20133 Milano, Italy
R. Ragni
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università. degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
D. Vona
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università. degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
S. R. Cicco
Affiliation:
CNR ICCOM, Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
F. Babudri
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università. degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
G. M. Farinola*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università. degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”. Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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Abstract

Diatoms are unicellular photosynthetic algae that autonomously fabricate a porous organized biosilica shell refined in billion years of evolution. They represent an inexhaustible source of low cost, biocompatible mesoporous silica. Despite the major advances in the genomic field, studies on diatom cell biology are still hampered by a lack of cellular tools. In particular, cell staining assays of diatoms viability are still limited or not well performant. Here we provide a phosphorescent organometallic iridium complex (Ir-Fcx) suitable to act as staining agent to detect diatoms viability.

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