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A dual-emission Förster resonance energy transfer nanoprobe for sensing/imaging pH changes in the biological environment

  • Ya Ling Chiu
  • , Show An Chen
  • , Jean Hong Chen
  • , Ko Jie Chen
  • , Hsin Lung Chen*
  • , Hsing Wen Sung
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • National Tsing Hua University
  • Kun Shan University

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Abstract

A dual-emission nanoprobe that can sense changes in the environmental pH is designed based on the concept of pH-responsive Förster resonance energy transfer induced by the conformational transition of an associating polyelectrolyte, N-palmitoyl chitosan, bearing a donor (Cy3) or an acceptor (Cy5) moiety. We demonstrate that the developed pH-responsive nanoprobe can be used to ratiometrically image and thus discriminate the pH changes in the biological environment at different length scales.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7467-7474
Number of pages8
JournalACS Nano
Volume4
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 12 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Förster resonance energy transfer
  • associating polyelectrolyte
  • dual emission
  • nanostructure transformation
  • pH-responsive nanoprobe
  • ratiometric imaging

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