Continuous imaging of plasmon rulers in live cells reveals early-stage caspase-3 activation at the single-molecule level

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 17735-17740

  Jun, Young Wook ^a   Sheikholeslami, Sassan ^a   Hostetter, Daniel R ^b   Tajon, Cheryl ^b   Craik, Charles S ^b   Alivisatosa, A Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caspase; Live cell imaging; Plasmonic nanoparticles; Protease sensor; Single molecule imaging

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; PLASMON RULER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULE; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CELL LINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GOLD; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR PROBES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70449591292     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907367106     Document Type: Article

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