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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Optical visualization and quantification of enzyme activity using dynamic droplet lenses.

Lauren D Zarzar, Julia A Kalow, Xinping He, Joseph J Walish, Timothy M Swager

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Morphology-Dependent Luminescence in Complex Liquid Colloids.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lauren D ZarzarDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Julia A KalowDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Xinping HeDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Joseph J WalishDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Timothy M SwagerDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; tswager@mit.edu.

Funding

A Conjugated Polymer Fluorogenic Probe for Inorganic PolyphosphateF32GM106550 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KALOW, JULIA ANN · 2013 to 2015
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NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM106550
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we describe an approach to measuring enzyme activity based on the reconfiguration of complex emulsions. Changes in the morphology of these complex emulsions, driven by enzyme-responsive surfactants, modulate the transmission of light through a sample. Through this method we demonstrate how simple photodetector measurements may be used to monitor enzyme kinetics. This approach is validated by quantitative measurements of enzyme activity for three different classes of enzymes (amylase, lipase, and sulfatase), relying on two distinct mechanisms for coupling droplet morphology to enzyme activity (host-guest interactions with uncaging and molecular cleavage).

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Optics and PhotonicsAmylasesAspergillusCandidaEmulsionsKineticsLipaseMicrofluidicsSulfatasesSurface-Active AgentsAmylasesEmulsionsLipaseSulfatasesSurface-Active Agentsassayemulsionenzymelensessensor

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PMID28348236
PMCPMC5393242

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