triphenylphosphonium
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[edit]Noun
[edit]triphenylphosphonium (plural triphenylphosphoniums)
- A cation derived from triphenylphosphine
- 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[1], volume 15, :
- 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).