Protein-Sized Quantum Dot Luminescence Can Distinguish between "Straight", "Bent", and "Kinked" Oligonucleotides

Mahtab, Rahina; Rogers, Jessica P.; Murphy, Catherine J.

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“…In these experiments, the quantum dots are not particularly well passivated, but their surfaces are modified with cationic or hydrogenbonding groups that are presumably attractive to the anionic DNA polymer. Photoluminescence titrations are then performed with short DNA oligomers that are either "normal" or "unusual" in terms of local structure and flexibility (43)(44)(45)(46). The shape of the emission spectrum does not change, only its intensity.…”

Section: Quantum Dots As Fluorescent Probesmentioning

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“…From these experiments, valuable biophysical insight has been gained into the way that different DNAs bind to generic protein-sized curved surfaces without the need for researchers to label the DNA or use radioactivity (43)(44)(45)(46). Some of these unusual DNA structures are correlated with human disease (47), and thus the development of this optical detection scheme is of interest to the bioanalytical community.…”

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“…The nanocrystals would attract more attention and be widely applied in biological assays, immunoassay and clinical diagnostics. [38][39][40][41] …”

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Synthesis of Mercaptoethylamine-coated CdSe/CdS Nanocrystals and Their Use for DNA Probe

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Luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), so-called "quantum dots" (QDs), have attracted increasing interest for bioanalytical labeling applications in recent years.1 NCs can be prepared with adequate homogeneity in both size and shape to allow emission with narrow bandwidths. 2,3 In addition, when their inorganic core is over-coated with a thin layer of a wider band-gap semiconducting material, a substantial enhancement in the NC photoluminescence quantum yield occurs. [4][5][6] For instance, CdSe NCs have a low fluorescent quantum yield, because the optically excited carriers (a positive and negative charge) get trapped at the poorly passivated surface of the nanocrystal. However, when the core is wrapped in a shell of several monolayers of zinc sulfide (ZnS), the core/shell crystals could have a fluorescent quantum yield of 50%. 4 The extinction coefficient of the nanocrystals is several-times larger than that of an organic dye molecule, making the nanocrytals incredibly bright. Finally, the use of appropriate surface-capping ligands permits their dispersion in a variety of solvents, including water, which provides a surface suitable for bioconjugation. 3,7,8 Recently, much research on applying NCs to biolabeling and analysis has been reported. However, most of them have focused on detecting proteins. 9-14For detecting nucleic acid, many studies have been inclined to use electrochemical methods. [15][16][17][18][19] Wang et al. 20 described an electrochemical method for the detection of DNA based on carbon-nanotubes carrying a large number of CdS particle tracers. Cai et al. 21used gold-nanoparticle-modified electrodes to enhance the amount of immobilized probe DNA. Hybridization was induced by the exposure of an ssDNA-containing gold electrode to ferrocenecarboxyaldehyde-labeled complementary DNA in solution. A few references about detecting nucleic acid with other methods have been reported. 22 Hansen et al. 23 applied CdS, ZnS, and PbS nanoparticles conjugated with short DNA sequences, which were immobilized via hybridization with complementary sequences on a gold surface. When a DNA target was added, it could be identified by ousting the existing hybridization between one of the DNA-nanoparticle conjugates and the surface DNA. Thus target DNA could be detected by an electrochemical DNA sensor. Algar et al. 24 detected nucleic acid based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between CdSe/ZnS QDs and a fluorophore. Although these methods are good for detecting DNA, they are too complicated, the probes are unstable, and some of the methods can not be used in quantitative detection.In the present work, highly luminescent CdSe/CdS nanocrystal conjugates were prepared. These water-soluble nanocrystals (coated with mercaptoethylamine) have a homogeneous positive charge density, which allows ultrasensitive quantitative detection of negatively charged DNA. Based on an electrostatic interaction between DNA and functionalized NCs, a novel highly sensitive fluorometric detection for DNA has been develo...

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“…They are used for the bio detection of pathogens [70] and for the detection of proteins [71] . Nanoparticles can be intended for the probing of DNA structure [72] and tissue engineering [73,74] . Nanoparticles can be used for tumor destruction via heating (hyperthermia) [75] .…”

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A Brief Review on Nanoparticles: Types of Platforms, Biological Synthesis and Applications

Anwar¹

2018

Res. Rev. J Mat. Sci

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Protein-Sized Quantum Dot Luminescence Can Distinguish between "Straight", "Bent", and "Kinked" Oligonucleotides

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Peer Reviewed: Optical Sensing with Quantum Dots

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Synthesis of Mercaptoethylamine-coated CdSe/CdS Nanocrystals and Their Use for DNA Probe

A Brief Review on Nanoparticles: Types of Platforms, Biological Synthesis and Applications

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