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ArticleJournal of biophotonics2019

Optical sensor revealed abnormal nuclease spatial activity on cancer cell membrane.

Yongliang Wang, Yuanchang Zhao, Anwesha Sarkar, Xuefeng Wang

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Article in Journal of biophotonics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Yongliang WangDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Yuanchang ZhaoDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Anwesha SarkarDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Xuefeng WangDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.ORCID 0000-0002-3301-3196
Iowa State University · US

Funding

Study the role of integrin tension in cell migration, platelet functions and phagocytosisR35GM128747 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI Xuefeng Wang · 2018 to 2026
$2.8M
National Science Foundation 1825724NIGMS NIH HHS 1R35GM128747NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128747
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleases are important enzymes that cleave nucleic acids and play critical roles in DNA repair, immune defense and potentially in cancer invasion. However, their spatial dynamics at subcellular level is much less studied. Here, we developed a surface-tethered nuclease sensor (SNS) which directly converts membrane-bound nuclease (MN) activity to fluorescent signal, therefore, mapping MN activity on cell adhesion sites with high resolution and sensitivity. With SNS, we studied MN activity on the ventral membrane of cancer cells, where MN activity initially occurs in punctate regions and advances in a coral-shaped pattern. In six tested cell-lines, the MN activity levels in cancer cells are significantly higher than those in non-cancer cells. We then tested SNS as a sensitive approach to detect cancer cells at single cell level. Single breast cancer cells were successfully detected from thousands of adherent non-cancer cells and from millions of non-adherent blood cells.

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Optical DevicesCell AdhesionCell Line, TumorCell MembraneDeoxyribonucleasesEnzyme AssaysHumansDeoxyribonucleasescancer cell detectioncirculating tumor cellclustered nuclease activitymembrane-bound nucleasenuclease optical sensor

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PMID30488667
PMCPMC6550314
OpenAlexW2902962003

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