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SUBMITTER: Ma N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2892383 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ma Nan N Marshall Ann F AF Rao Jianghong J
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100501 20
A new strategy based on biomineralization is presented to rationally tune the emission wavelength of luciferase. In this study luciferase (Luc8) was used as a template to direct the synthesis of near-infrared (NIR) light emitting PbS quantum dots (QDs) at ambient conditions to form a Luc8-PbS nanocomplex. The as-synthesized PbS QDs exhibited photoluminescence in the range of 800-1050 nm, and the Luc8 enzyme remained active within the Luc8-PbS complex. Upon the addition of the substrate coelenter ...[more]