Folic acid-functionalized fluorescent gold nanoclusters with polymers as linkers for cancer cell imaging

Juan Qiao, Xiaoyu Mu, Li Qi*, Jingjing Deng, Lanqun Mao

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Abstract

A novel nano-conjugate containing ultrasmall water-soluble AuNCs protected by ovalbumin as the fluorescent part, folic acid as the targeting ligand and a homopolymer N-acryloxysuccinimide as the linker has been investigated. Moreover, specific staining of HeLa cells by the nano-conjugate has been demonstrated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8030-8032
Number of pages3
JournalChemical Communications
Volume49
Issue number73
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Aug 2013
Externally publishedYes

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