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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2020

Protein Spherical Nucleic Acids for Live-Cell Chemical Analysis.

Devleena Samanta, Sasha B Ebrahimi, Caroline D Kusmierz, Ho Fung Cheng, Chad A Mirkin

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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36 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Northwestern University · US

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LEONIDAS C. PLATANIAS · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
Project 3: Spherical Nucleic Acids as Immunotherapeutic Agents for Prostate CancerU54CA199091 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI MIRKIN, CHAD A. · 2015 to 2019
$11.7M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NCI NIH HHS U54 CA199091
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the development of a new strategy for the chemical analysis of live cells based on protein spherical nucleic acids (ProSNAs). The ProSNA architecture enables analyte detection via the highly programmable nucleic acid shell or a functional protein core. As a proof-of-concept, we use an i-motif as the nucleic acid recognition element to probe pH in living cells. By interfacing the i-motif with a forced-intercalation readout, we introduce a quencher-free approach that is resistant to false-positive signals, overcoming limitations associated with conventional fluorophore/quencher-based gold NanoFlares. Using glucose oxidase as a functional protein core, we show activity-based, amplified sensing of glucose. This enzymatic system affords greater than 100-fold fluorescence turn on in buffer, is selective for glucose in the presence of close analogs (i.e., glucose-6-phosphate), and can detect glucose above a threshold concentration of ∼5 μM, which enables the study of relative changes in intracellular glucose concentrations.

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Cell SurvivalAnimalsbeta-GalactosidaseCell LineFluorescenceGlucoseHumansHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMiceModels, MolecularMolecular StructureNucleic Acidsbeta-GalactosidaseGlucoseNucleic Acids

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PMID32706250
PMCPMC7473486
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