An autonomous DNA nanomachine maps spatiotemporal pH changes in a multicellular living organism

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Surana, Sunaina ^a   Bhat, Jaffar M ^a,b   Koushika, Sandhya P ^a   Krishnan, Yamuna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTANT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE; WORM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; SYNTHESIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79958267629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1340     Document Type: Article

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