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SUBMITTER: Latorre A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4339280 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Latorre Alfonso A Posch Christian C Garcimartín Yolanda Y Ortiz-Urda Susana S Somoza Álvaro Á
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20140301 23
Gold nanoparticles functionalized with oligonucleotides that bear a cholesterol group are used as gene sensors. The hydrophobic molecule is buried inside the nanostructure but when the complementary RNA sequence is present the structure unfolds exposing the cholesterol group to the water molecules. This rearrangement leads to the aggregation of the nanostructures. ...[more]