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SUBMITTER: Shukoor MI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3483412 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shukoor Mohammed I MI Altman Meghan O MO Han Da D Bayrac Abdullah Tahir AT Ocsoy Ismail I Zhu Zhi Z Tan Weihong W
ACS applied materials & interfaces 20120618 6
In this work, gold nanoparticles perform Boolean logic operations in response to two proangiogenic targets important in cancer diagnosis and treatment: PDGF and VEGF. In the absence of protein target, gold nanoparticles are initially dispersed as a red solution; the addition of target proteins causes nanoparticle aggregation, turning the solution blue, as well as the release of dye-labeled aptamer probes, which causes an increase in fluorescence. These outputs constitute an AND or OR gate for si ...[more]