Sensitive detection of sulfhydryl groups in surface-confined metallothioneins and related species via ferrocene-capped gold nanoparticle/streptavidin conjugates

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1209-1213

  Jimenez, Omar A ^a   Chikneyan, Sara ^a   Baca, Alfred J ^a   Wang, Jianxiu ^b   Zhou, Feimeng ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETOXIFICATION; ELECTRODES; EXTRACTION; GOLD; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

HEAVY METAL ACCUMULATION; METALLOTHIONEIN (MT); SELF-AASEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SULFHYDRYL GROUPS;

ORGANOMETALLICS;

ALANINE DERIVATIVE; DITHIOBISSUCCINIMIDYL PROPIONATE; FERROCENE DERIVATIVE; GLUTATHIONE; GOLD DERIVATIVE; HEAVY METAL; HEXAPEPTIDE; HYDRAZIDE DERIVATIVE; LYSYLCYSTEINYLTHREONYLCYSTEINEYLCYSTEINYLALANYL; METALLOTHIONEIN; N BIOTINOYL N' [6 MALEIMIDOHEXANOYL] HYDRAZIDE; NANOPARTICLE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SILICON DIOXIDE; STREPTAVIDIN; THIOL GROUP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DETOXIFICATION; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DETOXIFICATION; ELECTRODE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MICROGRAVITY; POTENTIOMETRY; PROTEIN BINDING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOLD; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS, HEAVY; NANOSTRUCTURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTAVIDIN; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 14744293116     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0492539     Document Type: Article

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