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Rebecca A. Bozym

Researcher at University of Maryland, Baltimore

Publications -  10
Citations -  593

Rebecca A. Bozym is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, Baltimore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Zinc & Carbonic anhydrase. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 10 publications receiving 545 citations.

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Measuring Picomolar Intracellular Exchangeable Zinc in PC-12 Cells Using a Ratiometric Fluorescence Biosensor

TL;DR: This work quantitatively image intracellular exchangeable zinc in an ordinary resting cell culture line (PC-12), using an excitation ratiometric fluorescent biosensor based on carbonic anhydrase (CA), and indicates that the resting concentration is approximately 5-10 pM in cytoplasm and nucleus.
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Free zinc ions outside a narrow concentration range are toxic to a variety of cells in vitro

TL;DR: It is found that for PC-12, HeLa and HT-29 cell lines as well as primary cultures of cardiac myocytes and neurons in vitro in differing media, approximately 5 nmol/L free zinc produced apparently healthy cells, but 20-fold higher or lower concentrations were usually harmful as judged by multiple criteria.
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Quantitative Imaging of Mitochondrial and Cytosolic Free Zinc Levels in an in vitro Model of Ischemia/Reperfusion

TL;DR: An excitation ratiometric fluorescence biosensor based on human carbonic anhydrase II variants expressed in the mitochondrial matrix, permitting free zinc levels to be quantitatively imaged therein, is described.
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Determination of zinc using carbonic anhydrase-based fluorescence biosensors.

TL;DR: This chapter summarizes the use of carbonic anhydrase (CA)-based fluorescent indicators to determine free zinc in solution, in cells, and in subcellular organelles.
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Excitation ratiometric fluoroscent biosensor for zinc ion at picomolar levels

TL;DR: In this article, a highly selective and sensitive carbonic anhydrase-based method for measurement of zinc ion by an excitation ratiometric format based on resonance energy transfer is provided.