Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 7, Issue 34, Pages 19439-19445Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05665
Keywords
carbon dots; fluorescence labeling; cell imaging; stem cells; two-photon fluorescence; quantum dots
Funding
- China Natural Science Foundation [21301015]
- NIH
- NSF
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure Postdoctoral Fellowship
- South Carolina Space Grant Consortium
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The specifically synthesized and selected carbon dots of relatively high fluorescence quantum yields were evaluated in their fluorescence labeling of cells. For the cancer cell lines, the cellular uptake of the carbon dots was generally efficient, resulting in the labeling of the cells with bright fluorescence emissions for both one- and two-photon excitations from predominantly the cell membrane and cytoplasm. In the exploration on labeling the live stem cells, the cellular uptake of the carbon dots was relatively less efficient, though fluorescence emissions could still be adequately detected in the labeled cells, with the emissions again predominantly from the cell membrane and cytoplasm. This combined with the observed more efficient internalization of the same carbon dots by the fixed stem cells might suggest some significant selectivity of the stem cells toward surface functionalities of the carbon dots. The needs and possible strategies for more systematic and comparative studies on the fluorescence labeling of different cells, including especially live stem cells, by carbon dots as a new class of brightly fluorescent probes are discussed.
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