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ArticleJournal of virological methods2007

A novel high throughput quantum dot-based fluorescence assay for quantitation of virus binding and attachment.

Karan Kampani, Kevin Quann, Jaya Ahuja, Brian Wigdahl, Zafar K Khan, Pooja Jain

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Article in Journal of virological methods, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Karan KampaniDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Center for Molecular Virology and Neuroimmunology, Center for Cancer Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA.
Kevin Quann
Jaya Ahuja
Brian Wigdahl
Zafar K Khan
Pooja Jain
Institute for Molecular Medicine · USDrexel University · US

Funding

REGULATION OF HTLV I LTR IN IMMUNE AND NERVOUS SYSTEMSR01CA054559 · NCI · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI JAIN, POOJA · 1991 to 2016
$4.8M
NCI NIH HHS CA54559NCI NIH HHS R01 CA054559
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantum dots (QDots) are fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals with a narrow emission spectrum, high quantum yield, and excellent photostability. These unique properties of QDots have been utilized to develop a fluorescent binding assay using biotinylated human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (biot-HTLV-1) conjugated with streptavidin-coated QDots that enabled both qualitative and quantitative analyses of viral binding. The specificity and linearity of the assay was demonstrated utilizing T cells, the primary HTLV-1-susceptible cell population. Furthermore, differential binding of HTLV-1 was analyzed in additional cell types of clinical relevance including primary CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, dendritic cells (DCs), monocytes, bone marrow progenitor cells, and epithelial cells. DCs exhibited maximum binding affinity when compared to other examined cell types except the Jurkat and SUP-T1 T cell lines. Finally, blocking antibodies directed against a putative HTLV-1 receptor on DCs; DC-SIGN (dendritic cell-specific ICAM-3-grabbing non-integrin), were utilized to study the inhibition of HTLV-1 binding to target cells. Overall, these results demonstrated that this novel high throughput assay can be utilized to study the binding of a biotinylated virus and has implications for screening of viral binding inhibitors as well as host membrane proteins that may serve as receptors for viral entry.

Indexed as

BiotinylationCell LineCells, CulturedFluorescenceHumansHuman T-lymphotropic virus 1Leukocytes, MononuclearMicroscopy, ConfocalQuantum DotsVirus Attachment

Identifiers

PMID17204339
PMCPMC1975807
OpenAlexW2101984719

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