Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 10, Issue 40, Pages 33966-33975Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b11477
Keywords
core-satellite nanoprobe; DNAzyme; plasmon coupling effect; Cu2+ imaging; single-particle level
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21327902, 21635004]
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We demonstrate a core-satellite plasmonic nanoprobe assembled via metal-ion-dependent DNA-cleaving DNAzyme linker for imaging intercellular metal ion based on plasmon coupling effect at a single-particle level. As metal ions are present in the system, the DNAzyme linker will be cleaved, and thus, disassembly of the core-satellite nanoprobes occurs, which results in distinct blue shift of the scattering spectra of Au core-satellite probes and naked color change of the scattering light. This change in scattering spectra has been supported by theoretical simulations. As a proof of concept, sensitive detection of Cu2+ with a limit of detection down to 67.2 pM has been demonstrated. The nanoprobes have been further utilized for intracellular Cu2+ imaging in living cells. The results demonstrate that the present strategy provides a promising platform for detection and imaging of metal ions in living cells and could be potentially applied to imaging other interesting target molecules simply by substituting the oligonucleotide sequence.
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