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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7467-7474 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | ACS Nano |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 28 12 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Förster resonance energy transfer
- associating polyelectrolyte
- dual emission
- nanostructure transformation
- pH-responsive nanoprobe
- ratiometric imaging
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