GENERIC MEMBRANE ANCHORING SYSTEM

摘要

A chemical moiety and sensors and processes each based upon such a chemical moiety are provided. The chemical moiety includes a central core of an amino acid or an analog thereof having three chemically reactable sites thereon, an anchoring group attached to one of the three chemically reactable sites, the anchoring group adapted for mobile anchoring of the chemical moiety to a membrane surface, a recognition group attached to one of the three chemically reactable sites, the recognition group adapted for binding to a pre-selected species, and, a reporter group attached to one of the three chemically reactable sites, the reporter group adapted for providing a measurable signal upon binding between the recognition group and the pre-selected species.