68617-64-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Exofacial protein thiols as a route for the internalization of Gd(III)-based complexes for magnetic resonance imaging cell labeling
Digilio, Giuseppe,Menchise, Valeria,Gianolio, Eliana,Catanzaro, Valeria,Carrera, Carla,Napolitano, Roberta,Fedeli, Franco,Aime, Silvio
experimental part, p. 4877 - 4890 (2010/10/19)
Four novel MRI Gd(III)-based probes have been synthesized and evaluated for their labeling properties on cultured cell lines K562, C6, and B16. The labeling strategy relies upon the fact that cells display a large number of reactive exofacial protein thio
Macroporous p-type silicon Fabry-Perot layers. Fabrication, characterization, and applications in biosensing
Janshoff, Andreas,Dancil, Keiki-Pua S.,Steinem, Claudia,Greiner, Douglas P.,Lin, Victor S.-Y.,Gurtner, Christian,Motesharei, Kianoush,Sailor, Michael J.,Reza Ghadiri
, p. 12108 - 12116 (2007/10/03)
We present in this paper that porous silicon can be used as a large surface area matrix as well as the transducer of biomolecular interactions. We report the fabrication of heavily doped p-type porous silicon with pore diameters that can be tuned, depending on the etching condition, from approximately 5 to 1200 nm. The structure and porosity of the matrixes were characterized by scanning force microscopy (SFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Brunnauer-Emmett-Teller nitrogen adsorption isotherms, and reflectance interference spectroscopy. The thin porous silicon layers are transparent to the visible region of the reflectance spectra due to their high porosity (80-90%) and are smooth enough to produce Fabry-Perot fringe patterns upon white light illumination. Porous silicon matrixes were modified by ozone oxidation, functionalized in the presence of (2- pyridyldithiopropionamidobutyl)dimethylmethoxysilane, reduced to unmask the sulfhydryl functionalities, and coupled to biotin through a disulfide-bond- forming reaction. Such functionalized matrixes display considerable stability against oxidation and corrosion in aqueous media and were used to evaluate the utility of porous silicon in biosensing. The streptavidin-biotin interactions on the surface of porous silicon could be monitored by the changes in the effective optical thickness calculated from the observed shifts in the Fabry-Perot fringe pattern caused by the change in the refractive index of the medium upon protein-ligand binding. Porous silicon thus combines the properties of a mechanically and chemically stable high surface area matrix with the function of an optical transducer and as such may find utility in the fabrication of biosensor devices.
