Meanings
nountriphenylphosphonium (plural triphenylphosphoniums)
plural triphenylphosphoniums
- A cation derived from triphenylphosphine
To promote its selective mitochondrial uptake driven by mitochondrial potential (ΔΨ m,i ), we tagged α-TOS with the delocalised cation triphenylphosphonium (TPP + ) to prepare mitochondrially targeted vitamin E succinate (MitoVES).
2015 May 13, Bing Yan et al., “Mitochondrially targeted vitamin E succinate efficiently kills breast tumour-initiating cells in a complex II-dependent manner”, in BMC Cancer, volume 15, →DOI
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