title: A thermodynamic investigation into the binding properties of DNA functionalized gold nanoparticle probes and molecular fluorophore probes.
abstract: We report the first quantitative analysis of the oligonucleotide binding thermodynamics for DNA functionalized gold nanoparticle probes and compare our findings to molecular fluorophore probes on a sequence-for-sequence basis. With proper design, nanoparticle probes show significantly increased binding over molecular fluorophore probes under identical conditions. This is significant because probe binding strength directly influences detection sensitivity limits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors.forename: Abigail K R
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Lytton-Jean
authors.forename: Chad A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Mirkin
mesh_terms: D015342:DNA Probes / Q000737:chemistry*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006046:Gold