Assembly of a concentric förster resonance energy transfer relay on a quantum dot scaffold: Characterization and application to multiplexed protease sensing

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 11044-11058

  Algar, W Russ ^a,b,d   Ancona, Mario G ^a   Malanoski, Anthony P ^a   Susumu, Kimihiro ^a,c   Medintz, Igor L ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTIONS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frster resonance energy transfer; multiplexing; peptide; protease; quantum dot; relay; self assembly

Indexed keywords

ALEXA FLUOR; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOSENSING; FLUORESCENT DYES; INTERFACIAL DISTRIBUTION; MICHAELIS-MENTEN KINETIC; MOLECULAR RULER; PROGRESS CURVES; PROTEASE; PROTEOLYTIC ACTIVITIES; QD-BIOCONJUGATES; RELAY; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; SINGLE NANOPARTICLE; SPECTROSCOPIC TOOL;

BIOACTIVITY; BIOMOLECULES; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORSPAR; MULTIPLEXING; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PEPTIDES; RESONANCE; SCAFFOLDS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CHYMOTRYPSIN; PEPTIDE; QUANTUM DOT; TRYPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CHYMOTRYPSIN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEOLYSIS; QUANTUM DOTS; TRYPSIN;

EID: 84871557381     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304736j     Document Type: Article

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