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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages 2143-2151Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3sc50222h
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- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) within the Nano-X program [SSF [A3 05:204]]
- Swedish government strategic faculty grant in material science (SFO, MATLIU) in Advanced Functional Materials (AFM)
- National Institutes of Health of USA [CA147831, GM085485]
- University of Washington
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Near-IR (NIR) emitting semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) with ultrabright fluorescence have been prepared for specific cellular targeting. A series of pi-conjugated polymers were synthesized to form water dispersible multicomponent Pdots by an ultrasonication-assisted co-precipitation method. By optimizing cascade energy transfer in Pdots, high-intensity NIR fluorescence (Phi = 0.32) with tunable excitations, large absorption-emission separation (up to 330 nm), and narrow emission bands (FWHM = 44 nm) have been achieved. Single-particle fluorescence imaging show that the as-prepared NIR Pdots were more than three times brighter than the commercially available Qdot705 with comparable sizes under identical conditions of excitation and detection. Because of the covalent introduction of carboxylic acid groups into polymer side chains, the bioconjugation between NIR-emitting Pdots and streptavidins can be readily completed via these functional groups on the surface of Pdots. Furthermore, through flow cytometry and confocal fluorescence microscopy the NIR-emitting Pdot-streptavidin conjugates proved that they could effectively label EpCAM receptors on the surface of MCF-7 cells, via specific binding between streptavidin and biotin.
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