Noble metal gold and silver nanoparticle are conjugated with peptides for cellular imaging

Noble metal gold (Au) and silver (Ag) nanoparticle (NPs) are used to conjugate with M3 peptides. The AuNPs-sGFP andAuNPs-M3 peptide form SERS active hot spot through self-assembly and GFP complementation. The nanoparticles self-assemble into surface-enhanced Raman-scattering (SERS) nanoclusters. The nanocluster can be used as contrast agents for multimodal SERS and photoacoustic microscopy with single-cell sensitivity.

AuNPs coated with M3 peptides-GFP

AuNPs coated with M3 peptides-GFP

Reference: M3 peptide was purchased from LifeTein.

Cellular imaging by targeted assembly of hot-spot SERS and photoacoustic nanoprobes using split-fluorescent protein scaffolds

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03046-w

 

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