title: [Fluorescent lipid probes: properties and application].
abstract: This review is devoted to fluorescent lipid probes: the characteristics of their fluorophores; the main methods of their synthesis; and the potentialities, scope, and limitations of their use in studies of biological systems (cells, membranes and their models, enzymes of lipid metabolism, etc.). Particular attention is paid to the lipid specificity of the probes, i.e., the correspondence of their physicochemical characteristics and behavior in biological systems to those of natural lipids.
authors.affiliation: Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. jgmol@ibch.siobc.ras.ru
authors.forename: Iu G
authors.initials: IuG
authors.lastname: Molotkovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D008055:Lipids