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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Interfacial hydration determines orientational and functional dimorphism of sterol-derived Raman tags in lipid-coated nanoparticles.

Xingda An, Ayan Majumder, James McNeely, Jialing Yang, Taranee Puri, Zhiliang He, Taimeng Liang, John K Snyder, John E Straub, Björn M Reinhard

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Assembly and Stability of Lipid-Coated Silver Nanoparticles: A Combined UV-VIS / Multispectral iSCAT Study.The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2026
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  6. Promises of Plasmonic Antenna-Reactor Systems in Gas-Phase COAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Xingda AnDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.ORCID 0000-0002-7484-7410
Ayan MajumderDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.
James McNeelyDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.
Jialing YangDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.ORCID 0000-0001-8725-3219
Taranee PuriDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.
Zhiliang HeDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.
Taimeng LiangDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.
John K SnyderDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.ORCID 0000-0002-4960-0766
John E StraubDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.
Björn M ReinhardDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215; bmr@bu.edu.

Funding

Illuminating Dynamic Receptor Clustering in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signal Transduction Pathway Using Plasmon CouplingR01CA138509 · NCI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI Bjoern Markus Reinhard · 2009 to 2026
$5.9M
Probing the roles of membrane and cholesterol on Aβ biogenesis and prion protein interactionsR01GM107703 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI STRAUB, JOHN E., THIRUMALAI, DEVARAJAN · 2015 to 2022
$2.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA138509NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107703
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid-coated noble metal nanoparticles (L-NPs) combine the biomimetic surface properties of a self-assembled lipid membrane with the plasmonic properties of a nanoparticle (NP) core. In this work, we investigate derivatives of cholesterol, which can be found in high concentrations in biological membranes, and other terpenoids, as tunable, synthetic platforms to functionalize L-NPs. Side chains of different length and polarity, with a terminal alkyne group as Raman label, are introduced into cholesterol and betulin frameworks. The synthesized tags are shown to coexist in two conformations in the lipid layer of the L-NPs, identified as "head-out" and "head-in" orientations, whose relative ratio is determined by their interactions with the lipid-water hydrogen-bonding network. The orientational dimorphism of the tags introduces orthogonal functionalities into the NP surface for selective targeting and plasmon-enhanced Raman sensing, which is utilized for the identification and Raman imaging of epidermal growth factor receptor-overexpressing cancer cells.

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Click ChemistryLipid BilayersLipidsLiposomesMetal NanoparticlesMolecular Dynamics SimulationNanoparticlesLipid BilayersLipid NanoparticlesLipidsLiposomescholesterolepidermal growth factorhydrogen bondinglipid-coated nanoparticlessurface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

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PMID34389679
PMCPMC8379971

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