Sensing Capabilities of Colloidal Gold Monolayer Modified with a Phenylboronic Acid-Carrying Polymer Brush

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1065-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromi Kitano ◽  
Yasutaka Anraku ◽  
Hiroaki Shinohara
2008 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuya Mizukami ◽  
Hajime Takakura ◽  
Takayuki Matsunaga ◽  
Hiromi Kitano

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (20) ◽  
pp. 7603-7609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongliang Liu ◽  
Yingying Li ◽  
Kang Sun ◽  
Junbing Fan ◽  
Pengchao Zhang ◽  
...  

Langmuir ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (26) ◽  
pp. 11293-11296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironori Tsunoyama ◽  
Hidehiro Sakurai ◽  
Nobuyuki Ichikuni ◽  
Yuichi Negishi ◽  
Tatsuya Tsukuda

2009 ◽  
Vol 331 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromi Kitano ◽  
Hirokazu Kago ◽  
Kazuhiro Matsuura

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruonan Wang ◽  
Changfeng Yin ◽  
Changren Liu ◽  
Ying Sun ◽  
Panpan Xiao ◽  
...  

Abstract Timely lysosome escape is very important for nanomedicines to avoid premature degradation. Herein, we report an exciting finding that phenylboronic acid (PBA) modification can greatly facilitate the lysosome escape of cylindrical polymer brushes (CPBs), and further promote their exocytosis and transcellular transfer. This fundamental finding for the first time reveals that PBA groups improve the tumor penetration of nanomaterials via an active transcytosis mechanism. We speculate that the mechanism of the PBA-enhanced lysosome escape is associated with the specific interactions of the PBA group with the lysosomal membrane proteins and hot shock proteins. The featured advantage of the PBA modification over the known lysosome escape strategies is that it does not cause significant adverse effects on the properties of the CPBs. Furthermore, doxorubicin was conjugated to the PBA-modified CPBs with drug loading content larger than 20%. This CPBs-based prodrug could eradicate the tumors established in mice by multiple intravenous administration.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 2276-2281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuling Li ◽  
Hongliang Liu ◽  
Guangyan Qing ◽  
Shutao Wang ◽  
Xinmiao Liang

Phenylboronic acid (PBA) polymer brush modified silica demonstrated high selectivity for glycopeptides attributed to the synergistic effect of polyvalent interactions, hydrogen binding and hydrophilic nature provided by the polymer brush.


Author(s):  
E. T. O'Toole ◽  
R. R. Hantgan ◽  
J. C. Lewis

Thrombocytes (TC), the avian equivalent of blood platelets, support hemostasis by aggregating at sites of injury. Studies in our lab suggested that fibrinogen (fib) is a requisite cofactor for TC aggregation but operates by an undefined mechanism. To study the interaction of fib with TC and to identify fib receptors on cells, fib was purified from pigeon plasma, conjugated to colloidal gold and used both to facilitate aggregation and as a receptor probe. Described is the application of computer assisted reconstruction and stereo whole mount microscopy to visualize the 3-D organization of fib receptors at sites of cell contact in TC aggregates and on adherent cells.Pigeon TC were obtained from citrated whole blood by differential centrifugation, washed with Ca++ free Hank's balanced salts containing 0.3% EDTA (pH 6.5) and resuspended in Ca++ free Hank's. Pigeon fib was isolated by precipitation with PEG-1000 and the purity assessed by SDS-PAGE. Fib was conjugated to 25nm colloidal gold by vortexing and the conjugates used as the ligand to identify fib receptors.


Author(s):  
George H. Herbener ◽  
Antonio Nanci ◽  
Moise Bendayan

Protein A-gold immunocytochemistry is a two-step, post-embedding labeling procedure which may be applied to tissue sections to localize intra- and extracellular proteins. The key requisite for immunocytochemistry is the availability of the appropriate antibody to react in an immune response with the antigenic sites on the protein of interest. During the second step, protein A-gold complex is reacted with the antibody. This is a non- specific reaction in that protein A will combine with most IgG antibodies. The ‘label’ visualized in the electron microscope is colloidal gold. Since labeling is restricted to the surface of the tissue section and since colloidal gold is particulate, labeling density, i.e., the number of gold particles per unit area of tissue section, may be quantitated with ease and accuracy.


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