In this paper, we report a coupling of fluorophore-DNA barcode and bead-based immunoassay for the detection of Avian Influenza Virus (AIV), a potential pandemic threat for human health and enormous economic losses. The detection strategy is based on the use of sandwich immunoassay and fluorophore-tagged oligonucleotides as representatively fluorescent barcodes. Despite its simplicity the assay ...

Abstract The ability to dynamically remodel DNA origami structures or functional nanodevices is highly desired in the field of nanotechnology. Concomitantly, use fluorophores track and validate dynamics such DNA-based architectures commonplace often unavoidable. It therefore crucial be aware side effects popular fluorophores, which are exchanged without considering potential impact on system. H...

In this study we attempt to determine the deactivation mechanism of a hybridization-sensitive DNA probe by using steady state absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. Thiazole orange or 2,20Methylenebis(N-alkylbenzothiazole) is covalently linked to a single nucleotide in the DNA probe. Radiationless deactivation of the fluorophores is mainly determined by photo-induced isomerization of the met...

We developed new cationic fluorescent polymeric thermometers containing both benzothiadiazole and BODIPY units as an environment-sensitive fluorophore and as a reference fluorophore, respectively. The temperature-dependent fluorescence spectra of the thermometers enabled us to perform highly sensitive and practical ratiometric temperature sensing inside living mammalian cells. Intracellular tem...

The quantification of a nonuniform quantum yield or fluorophore absorption distribution is of major interest in molecular imaging of biological tissue. We introduce what is believed to be the first fluorescence image reconstruction algorithm based on the equation of radiative transfer that recovers the spatial distribution of light-emitting fluorophores inside a highly scattering medium from me...

Magnetism has wide applications in various fields, such as diagnostics, drug targeting, molecular biology, cell isolation, cell purification, hyperthermia, and radioimmunoassay. In this study, we synthesized niosomes doped with iron oxide nanoparticles and a fluorophore for potential applications in magnetically targeted drug delivery. Release kinetics of the fluorophore and cytotoxicity were a...

Wavelength-selective fluorescence comprises a set of approaches based on the red edge effect in fluorescence spectroscopy which can be used to directly monitor the environment and dynamics around a fluorophore in a complex biological system. A shift in the wavelength of maximum fluorescence emission toward higher wavelengths, caused by a shift in the excitation wavelength toward the red edge of...

Particular thiols of the myosin subfragment 1 moieties of single glycerinated muscle fibers are covalently labeled with rhodamine. By using appropriate solutions such fibers can be relaxed, be in rigor, or develop active isometric tension. The rhodamine is excited by polarized 514.5-nm laser light; the greater than 580-nm fluorescence is resolved into orthogonal components and the intensity of ...

Two biotinylated coumarin-based fluorescent probes SPS3 and RC3 were designed for differentiating between structurally similar proteins streptavidin (SA) and avidin (AV). A substituted phenyl group is introduced onto SPS3, which may quench the fluorescence through twist intramolecular charge transfer (TICT). The fluorescence of SPS3 is turned on, by restraining the TICT process, when the fluoro...