Ordinary AFM probes'characters prevent the AFM' s application in various scopes. Carbon nanotubes represent ideal AFM probe materials for their higher aspect ratio, larger Young's modulus, unique chemical ...Ordinary AFM probes'characters prevent the AFM' s application in various scopes. Carbon nanotubes represent ideal AFM probe materials for their higher aspect ratio, larger Young's modulus, unique chemical structure, and well-defined electronic property. Carbon nanotube AFM probes are obtained by using a new method of attaching carbon nanotubes to the end of ordinary AFM probes, and are then used for doing AFM experiments. These experiments indicated that carbon nanotube probes have higher elastic deformation, higher resolution and higher durability. And it was also found that carbon nanotube probes ean accurately reflect the morphology of deep narrow gaps, while ordinary probes can not reflect.展开更多
Monitoring telomerase activity with high sensitive and reliable is of great importance to cancer analysis. In this paper, we report a sensitive and facile method to detect telomerase activity using AIEgens mod- ified ...Monitoring telomerase activity with high sensitive and reliable is of great importance to cancer analysis. In this paper, we report a sensitive and facile method to detect telomerase activity using AIEgens mod- ified probe （TPE-Py-DNA） as a fluorescence reporter and exonuclease llI （Exo lIl） as a signal amplifier. With the aid of telomerase, repeat units （TrAGGG）n are extended from the end of template substrate oligonucleotides （TS primer） that form duplex DNAs with TPE-Py-DNA. Then, Exo llI catalyzes the diges- tion of duplex DNAs, liberating elongation product and releasing hydrophobic TPE-Py. The released hydrophobic TPE-Py aggregate together and produce a telomerase-activity-related fluorescence signal. The liberated product hybridizes with another TPE-Py-DNA probe, starting the second cycle. Finally, we obtain the target-to-signal amplification ratio of 1 ：N2. This strategy exhibits good performance for detecting clinical urine samples （distinguishing 15 cancer patients＇ samples from 8 healthy ones） and checking intracellular telomerase activity （differentiating cell lines including HeLa, MDA-MB-231, MCF-7, A375, HLF and MRC-5 from the cells pretreated with telomerase-related drug）, which shows its potential in clinical diagnosis as well as therapeutic monitoring of cancer.展开更多
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50202006)the Multidisciline Scientific Research Foundation of Harbin Institute of Technology (Grant No. HIT. MD. 2001.04)
文摘Ordinary AFM probes'characters prevent the AFM' s application in various scopes. Carbon nanotubes represent ideal AFM probe materials for their higher aspect ratio, larger Young's modulus, unique chemical structure, and well-defined electronic property. Carbon nanotube AFM probes are obtained by using a new method of attaching carbon nanotubes to the end of ordinary AFM probes, and are then used for doing AFM experiments. These experiments indicated that carbon nanotube probes have higher elastic deformation, higher resolution and higher durability. And it was also found that carbon nanotube probes ean accurately reflect the morphology of deep narrow gaps, while ordinary probes can not reflect.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21375042,21405054,21525523,21574048,and21404028)the National Basic Research Program of China(2015CB932600,2013CB933000,and 2016YFF0100800)+1 种基金the Special Fund for Strategic New Industry Development of Shenzhen,China(JCYJ20150616144425376)1000 Young Talent Program(to F.Xia)
文摘Monitoring telomerase activity with high sensitive and reliable is of great importance to cancer analysis. In this paper, we report a sensitive and facile method to detect telomerase activity using AIEgens mod- ified probe （TPE-Py-DNA） as a fluorescence reporter and exonuclease llI （Exo lIl） as a signal amplifier. With the aid of telomerase, repeat units （TrAGGG）n are extended from the end of template substrate oligonucleotides （TS primer） that form duplex DNAs with TPE-Py-DNA. Then, Exo llI catalyzes the diges- tion of duplex DNAs, liberating elongation product and releasing hydrophobic TPE-Py. The released hydrophobic TPE-Py aggregate together and produce a telomerase-activity-related fluorescence signal. The liberated product hybridizes with another TPE-Py-DNA probe, starting the second cycle. Finally, we obtain the target-to-signal amplification ratio of 1 ：N2. This strategy exhibits good performance for detecting clinical urine samples （distinguishing 15 cancer patients＇ samples from 8 healthy ones） and checking intracellular telomerase activity （differentiating cell lines including HeLa, MDA-MB-231, MCF-7, A375, HLF and MRC-5 from the cells pretreated with telomerase-related drug）, which shows its potential in clinical diagnosis as well as therapeutic monitoring of cancer.
