Engineering of switchable aptamer micelle flares for molecular imaging in living cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 5724-5731

  Wu, Cuichen ^a   Chen, Tao ^a   Han, Da ^a,b   You, Mingxu ^a   Peng, Lu ^a   Cansiz, Sena ^a   Zhu, Guizhi ^a,b   Li, Chunmei ^a   Xiong, Xiangling ^a,b   Jimenez, Elizabeth ^a   Yang, Chaoyong James ^c   Tan, Weihong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ATP imaging; living cells; micelle flare nanostructures; switchable aptamer

Indexed keywords

APTAMERS; BIOLOGICAL MOLECULE; FLUORESCENCE SIGNALS; INTRACELLULAR IMAGING; LIVING CELL; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; SIMULTANEOUS MONITORING; TARGETS OF INTEREST;

BIOMOLECULES; DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DELIVERY; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROBES;

MICELLES;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; APTAMER; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; NANOPARTICLE; MICELLE; MOLECULAR PROBE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HELA CELL; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICELLE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR PROBE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; DIAGNOSTIC USE; HELA CELL LINE; PROCEDURES;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CELL MEMBRANE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICELLES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR PROBES; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84880849719     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402517v     Document Type: Article

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