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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014

Molecular extraction in single live cells by sneaking in and out magnetic nanomaterials.

Zhen Yang, Liangzi Deng, Yucheng Lan, Xiaoliu Zhang, Zhonghong Gao, Ching-Wu Chu, Dong Cai, Zhifeng Ren

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhen YangDepartment of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002;School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China;
Liangzi DengDepartment of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002;
Yucheng LanDepartment of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002;
Xiaoliu ZhangCenter for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5056; and.
Zhonghong GaoSchool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China;
Ching-Wu ChuDepartment of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002;Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 cwchu@uh.edu dcai@uh.edu zren@uh.edu.
Dong CaiDepartment of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; cwchu@uh.edu dcai@uh.edu zren@uh.edu.
Zhifeng RenDepartment of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5002; cwchu@uh.edu dcai@uh.edu zren@uh.edu.
University of Houston · USHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extraction of intracellular molecules is crucial to the study of cellular signal pathways. Disruption of the cellular membrane remains the established method to release intracellular contents, which inevitably terminates the time course of biological processes. Also, conventional laboratory extractions mostly use bulky materials that ignore the heterogeneity of each cell. In this work, we developed magnetized carbon nanotubes that can be sneaked into and out of cell bodies under a magnetic force. Using a testing model with overexpression of GFP, the nanotubes successfully transported the intracellular GFP out at the single-cell level. The confined nanoscale invasiveness did not change cell viability or proliferation. This study presents the proof of concept of a previously unidentified real-time and single-cell approach to investigate cellular biology, signal messengers, and therapeutic effects with nanomaterials.

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Models, BiologicalNanotubesBiological Transport, ActiveGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHEK293 CellsHumansSignal TransductionGreen Fluorescent Proteinsdrug screeningreal-time detectionsingle-cell method

Identifiers

PMID25030447
PMCPMC4121814
OpenAlexW2062839637

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