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Nanoscale

Recombinant protein (EGFP-Protein G)-coated PbS quantum dots for in vitro and in vivo dual fluorescence (visible and second-NIR) imaging of breast tumors†

Akira Sasaki,*ab   Yoshikazu Tsukasaki,‡b   Akihito Komatsuzaki,b   Takao Sakata,c   Hidehiro Yasudac  and  Takashi Jin*bde  

* Corresponding authors

a Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
E-mail: akira.sasaki@aist.go.jp

b Laboratory for Nano-Bio Probes, Quantitative Biology Center, RIKEN, Suita, Osaka 565-0874, Japan
E-mail: tjin@riken.jp

c Research Center for Ultra-High Voltage Electron Microscopy, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan

d WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

e Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Abstract

We report a one-step synthetic strategy for the preparation of recombinant protein (EGFP-Protein G)-coated PbS quantum dots for dual (visible and second-NIR) fluorescence imaging of breast tumors at the cellular and whole-body level.

Graphical abstract: Recombinant protein (EGFP-Protein G)-coated PbS quantum dots for in vitro and in vivo dual fluorescence (visible and second-NIR) imaging of breast tumors

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4NR06480A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Nov 2014
Accepted
18 Dec 2014
First published
22 Dec 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale, 2015,7, 5115-5119

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Recombinant protein (EGFP-Protein G)-coated PbS quantum dots for in vitro and in vivo dual fluorescence (visible and second-NIR) imaging of breast tumors

A. Sasaki, Y. Tsukasaki, A. Komatsuzaki, T. Sakata, H. Yasuda and T. Jin, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 5115 DOI: 10.1039/C4NR06480A

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