Quantum dot enabled molecular sensing and diagnostics

Theranostics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 631-654

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Wang, Tza Huei ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Nanoassembly; Nanosensor; Quantum dot; Sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CADMIUM; CHOLERA TOXIN; CYTOSINE; MALTOSE; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; POLYHISTIDINE; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B; STREPTAVIDIN; TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE; TRYPSIN; URACIL; ZINC;

BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; BIOTINYLATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONJUGATION; CYTOPLASM; DNA BARCODING; DNA BINDING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMAGING; IMMUNOASSAY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PH; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 84864416279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18387640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/thno.4308     Document Type: Review

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