Probing Enzymatic Activity inside Living Cells Using a Nanowire–Cell “Sandwich” Assay
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Probing enzymatic activity inside living cells using a nanowire-cell "sandwich" assay.
Developing a detailed understanding of enzyme function in the context of an intracellular signal transduction pathway requires minimally invasive methods for probing enzyme activity in situ. Here, we describe a new method for monitoring enzyme activity in living cells by sandwiching live cells between two vertical silicon nanowire (NW) arrays. Specifically, we use the first NW array to immobili...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nano Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1530-6984,1530-6992
DOI: 10.1021/nl3037068