Studying Protein-DNA Complexes Using Gold Nanoparticles by Exploiting Particle Aggregation, Refractive Index Change, and Fluorescence Quenching and Enhancement Principles

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 753-763

  Sutarlie, Laura ^a   Aung, Khin Moh Moh ^a   Lim, Michelle Gek Liang ^b   Lukman, Steven ^a   Cheung, Edwin ^b,c,d   Su, Xiaodi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biosensors; Fluorescence enhancement; Fluorescence quenching; Gold nanoparticles; Protein DNA complexes; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891377534     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9655-2     Document Type: Article

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