Energy transfer with semiconductor quantum dot bioconjugates: a versatile platform for biosensing, energy harvesting, and other develo** applications

N Hildebrandt, CM Spillmann, WR Algar, T Pons… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are one of the more popular nanomaterials
currently utilized within biological applications. However, what is not widely appreciated is …

Quantum dots for Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)

MC Dos Santos, WR Algar, IL Medintz… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The analysis of biomolecular interactions using quantum dots (QDs) as both FRET donors
and acceptors has become an established technique in the life sciences. This development …

Self assembling nanoparticle enzyme clusters provide access to substrate channeling in multienzymatic cascades

JC Breger, JN Vranish, E Oh, MH Stewart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Access to efficient enzymatic channeling is desired for improving all manner of designer
biocatalysis. We demonstrate that enzymes constituting a multistep cascade can self …

Meta-analysis of cellular toxicity for cadmium-containing quantum dots

E Oh, R Liu, A Nel, KB Gemill, M Bilal, Y Cohen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the relationships between the physicochemical properties of engineered
nanomaterials and their toxicity is critical for environmental and health risk analysis …

Quantum dot-based molecular beacons for quantitative detection of nucleic acids with CRISPR/Cas (N) nucleases

CM Green, J Spangler, K Susumu, DA Stenger… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Strategies utilizing the CRISPR/Cas nucleases Cas13 and Cas12 have shown great
promise in the development of highly sensitive and rapid diagnostic assays for the detection …

Artificial Multienzyme Scaffolds: Pursuing in Vitro Substrate Channeling with an Overview of Current Progress

GA Ellis, WP Klein, G Lasarte-Aragonés, M Thakur… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial multienzyme scaffolds are being developed for in vitro cascaded biocatalytic activity
and, in particular, accessing substrate channeling. This review covers progress in this field …

Nanoparticles and DNA–a powerful and growing functional combination in bionanotechnology

A Samanta, IL Medintz - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Functionally integrating DNA and other nucleic acids with nanoparticles in all their different
physicochemical forms has produced a rich variety of composite nanomaterials which, in …

The road to the synthesis of “difficult peptides”

M Paradís-Bas, J Tulla-Puche, F Albericio - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The last decade has witnessed a renaissance of peptides as drugs. This progress, together
with advances in the structural behavior of peptides, has attracted the interest of the …

Quantum dot-conjugated SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudo-virions enable tracking of angiotensin converting enzyme 2 binding and endocytosis

K Gorshkov, K Susumu, J Chen, M Xu, M Pradhan… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The first step of SARS-CoV-2 infection is binding of the spike protein's receptor binding
domain to the host cell's ACE2 receptor on the plasma membrane. Here, we have generated …

[HTML][HTML] Surface ligands engineering of semiconductor quantum dots for chemosensory and biological applications

J Zhou, Y Liu, J Tang, W Tang - Materials Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Featuring size-tunable electrical and optical properties, semiconductor quantum dots (QDs)
are appealing intensive interests in develo** ingenious luminescent materials for …