Silva AS, Bonifácio VDB, Raje VP, Branco PS, Machado PFB, Correia IJ, Aguiar-Ricardo A. Design of oligoaziridine-PEG coatings for efficient nanogold cellular biotagging.
RSC Adv 2015. [DOI:
10.1039/c4ra15743e]
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Abstract
Biocompatible oligoaziridine-PEG coated gold nanoparticles overcome self-quenching while targeting the cell nucleus. The course of gold biotags within the cell's environment was tracked through confocal laser microscopy.
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