scholarly journals Relating the composition and interface interactions in the hard corona of gold nanoparticles to the induced response mechanisms in living cells

Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (33) ◽  
pp. 17450-17461
Author(s):  
Gergo Peter Szekeres ◽  
Stephan Werner ◽  
Peter Guttmann ◽  
Cecilia Spedalieri ◽  
Daniela Drescher ◽  
...  

Combined proteomics, nanotomography, and live cell spectroscopy help relate gold nanoparticle processing to the interactions at the nanoparticle interface.

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (34) ◽  
pp. 5460-5465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongje Jang ◽  
Kyungtae Kang ◽  
Mostafa A. El-Sayed

Fucoidan-coated gold nanoparticle mediated autophagy triggering and PERS monitoring provide molecular level insight on a biological event.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa A. Vetten ◽  
Mary Gulumian

Background: Endotoxin-free engineered nanoparticle suspensions are imperative for their successful applications in the field of nanomedicine as well as in the investigations in their toxicity. Gold nanoparticles are known to interfere with various in vitro assays due to their optical properties and potential for surface reactivity. In vitro endotoxin testing assays are known to be susceptible to interference caused by the sample being tested. Objective: This study aimed to identify a preferred assay for the testing of endotoxin contamination in gold nanoparticle suspensions. Methods: The interference by gold nanoparticles on three assays namely, the commonly used limulus amebocyte lysate chromogenic assay, the limulus amebocyte lysate gel-clot method, and the less common recombinant Factor C (rFC) assay, was tested. Results: Possible interference could be observed with all three assays. The interference with the absorbance- based chromogenic assay could not be overcome by dilution; whilst the qualitative nature of the gel-clot assay excluded the possibility of distinguishing between a false positive result due to enhancement of the sensitivity of the assay, and genuine endotoxin contamination. However, interference with the rFC assay was easily overcome through dilution. Conclusion: The rFC assay is recommended as an option for endotoxin contamination detection in gold nanoparticle suspensions.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiren Cao ◽  
Jinjun Wu ◽  
Bo Pang ◽  
Hongquan Zhang ◽  
X. Chris Le

The trans-cleavage activity of the target-activated CRISPR-Cas12a liberated an RNA crosslinker from a molecular transducer, which facilitated assembly of gold nanoparticles. Integration of the molecular transducer with isothermal amplification and...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Chen ◽  
Leiqing Pan ◽  
K. Tu

A simple and quick responsive fluorescent biosensor for Salmonella typhimurium detection based on the recognition of aptamer coupled with alendronic acid (ADA)@upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) and gold nanoparticle (AuNPs) has been...


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 472
Author(s):  
Qunying Yuan ◽  
Manjula Bomma ◽  
Zhigang Xiao

Phytochelatins, the enzymatic products of phytochelatin synthase, play a principal role in protecting the plants from heavy metal and metalloid toxicity due to their ability to scavenge metal ions. In the present study, we investigated the capacity of soluble intracellular extracts from E. coli cells expressing R. tropici phytochelatin synthase to synthesize gold nanoparticle. We discovered that the reaction mediated by soluble extracts from the recombinant E. coli cells had a higher yield of gold nanoparticles, compared to that from the control cells. The compositional and morphological properties of the gold nanoparticles synthesized by the intracellular extracts from recombinant cells and control cells were similar. In addition, this extracellular nanoparticle synthesis method produced purer gold nanoparticles, avoiding the isolation of nanoparticles from cellular debris when whole cells are used to synthesize nanoparticles. Our results suggested that phytochelatins can improve the efficiency of gold nanoparticle synthesis mediated by bacterial soluble intracellular extracts, and the potential of extracellular nanoparticle synthesis platform for the production of nanoparticles in large quantity and pure form is worth further investigation.


The Analyst ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 142 (17) ◽  
pp. 3261-3271 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Hondred ◽  
Joyce C. Breger ◽  
Nate T. Garland ◽  
Eunkeu Oh ◽  
Kimihiro Susumu ◽  
...  

A significant enzymatic enhancement of phosphotriesterase has been demonstrated when immobilized on various sized gold nanoparticles.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda S. Forero-Quintero ◽  
William Raymond ◽  
Tetsuya Handa ◽  
Matthew N. Saxton ◽  
Tatsuya Morisaki ◽  
...  

AbstractThe carboxyl-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II (RNAP2) is phosphorylated during transcription in eukaryotic cells. While residue-specific phosphorylation has been mapped with exquisite spatial resolution along the 1D genome in a population of fixed cells using immunoprecipitation-based assays, the timing, kinetics, and spatial organization of phosphorylation along a single-copy gene have not yet been measured in living cells. Here, we achieve this by combining multi-color, single-molecule microscopy with fluorescent antibody-based probes that specifically bind to different phosphorylated forms of endogenous RNAP2 in living cells. Applying this methodology to a single-copy HIV-1 reporter gene provides live-cell evidence for heterogeneity in the distribution of RNAP2 along the length of the gene as well as Serine 5 phosphorylated RNAP2 clusters that remain separated in both space and time from nascent mRNA synthesis. Computational models determine that 5 to 40 RNAP2 cluster around the promoter during a typical transcriptional burst, with most phosphorylated at Serine 5 within 6 seconds of arrival and roughly half escaping the promoter in ~1.5 minutes. Taken together, our data provide live-cell support for the notion of efficient transcription clusters that transiently form around promoters and contain high concentrations of RNAP2 phosphorylated at Serine 5.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1953-1960 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. R. González ◽  
A. G. Orive ◽  
R. C. Salvarezza ◽  
A. H. Creus

Gold nanoparticle electrodeposition on a modified HOPG surface with a monolayer organic film based on aryl diazonium chemistry has been studied.


2016 ◽  
Vol 184 (2) ◽  
pp. 603-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Li ◽  
Hongfang Gao ◽  
Xiaofei Wang ◽  
Yufeng Wang ◽  
Honglan Qi ◽  
...  

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