Visual recognition and efficient isolation of apoptotic cells with a fluorescent-magnetic-biotargeting multifunctional nanospheres
Visual recognition and efficient isolation of apoptotic cells with a fluorescent-magnetic-biotargeting multifunctional nanospheres
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利用荧光磁生物靶向多功能纳米球视觉识别和有效分离凋亡细胞
DOI:
10.1373/clinchem.2007.092023
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发表时间:
2007-12-01
影响因子:
9.3
通讯作者:
Pang, Dai-Wen
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作者:
Song, Er-Qun;Wang, Guo-Ping;Pang, Dai-Wen
Background: Fluorescent-magnetic-biotargeting multifunctional nanospheres are likely to find important applications in bioanalysis, biomedicine, and clinical diagnosis. We have been developing such multifunctional nanospheres for biomedical applications.Methods: We covalently coupled avidin onto the surfaces of fluorescent-magnetic bifunctional nanospheres to construct fluorescent-magnetic-biotargeting trifunctional nanospheres and analyzed the functionality and specificity of these trifunctional nanospheres for their ability to recognize and isolate apoptotic cells labeled with biotinylated annexin V, which recognizes phosphatidylserine exposed on the surfaces of apoptotic cells.Results: The multifunctional nanospheres can be used in combination with propidium iodide staining of nuclear DNA to identify cells at different phases of the apoptotic process. Furthermore, we demonstrate that apoptotic cells induced by exposure to ultraviolet light can be isolated simply with a magnet from living cells at an efficiency of at least 80%; these cells can then be easily visualized with a fluorescence microscope.Conclusions: Our results show that fluorescent-magnetic-biotargeting trifunctional nanospheres can be a powerful tool for rapidly recognizing, magnetically enriching and sorting, and simultaneously identifying different kinds of cells. (C) 2007 American Association for Clinical Chemistry.