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SUBMITTER: Niu W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5260866 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Niu Weijia W Chen Xigao X Tan Weihong W Veige Adam S AS
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20160617 31
This report describes the synthesis and characterization of novel N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-gold(I) complexes and their bioconjugation to the CCRF-CEM-leukemia-specific aptamer sgc8c. Successful bioconjugation was confirmed by the use of fluorescent tags on both the NHC-Au(I) complex and the aptamer. Cell-viability assays indicated that the NHC-Au(I) -aptamer conjugate was more cytotoxic than the NHC-gold complex alone. A combination of flow cytometry, confocal microscopy, and cell-viability ...[more]