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SUBMITTER: Kandanapitiye MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4510992 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kandanapitiye Murthi S MS Gunathilake Chamila C Jaroniec Mietek M Huang Songping D SD
Journal of materials chemistry. B 20150701 27
High thiophillicicity of the Au-nanoparticle (Au NP) surface leads to covalent attachment of D-penicillamine molecules to Au NPs to form biocompatible D-penicillamine conjugated Au NPs. The latter are highly water-dispersible, exhibit no cytotoxicity, and can readily penetrate the cell membrane to target intracellular free copper ions for selective copper detoxification in the presence of the other divalent essential metal ions including Zn(II), Fe(II), Mn(II), Ca(II), and Mg(II), thus opening u ...[more]