title: [Surfaced-enhanced Raman spectroscopic study on single living human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells incubated with colloidal gold].
abstract: The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy and normal Raman spectroscopy of single living human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells(CNE-1) were tested and analyzed by gold nanoparticles incubation into cells. Six obvious Raman bands (718, 1001, 1123, 1336, 1446 and 1660 cm(-1)) were observed in the normal Raman spectroscopy of living CNE-1 cells. The characteristic Raman bands in the SERS spectra of living cells were tentatively assigned. Colloidal gold particles that were introduced inside cells result in strongly enhanced Raman signals of the native chemical constituents of the cells, and over twenty SERS Raman bands were observed in the SERS spectroscopy of living CNE-1 cells. The Raman lines of 1026, 1097, 1336 and 1585 cm(-1) were assigned to vibrations of the DNA backbone, which confirms that some gold nanoparticles were able to enter the nucleus. The results showed that, based on colloidal gold, the SERS spectroscopy might provide a sensitive and structurally selective detecting method for native chemicals inside a cell, such as DNA and phenylalanine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrative Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou 350108, China. huanghao@126.com
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jian-ji
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Wei-wei
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Qi-song
authors.initials: QS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shang-yuan
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Xiong-wei
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002467:Cell Nucleus; D004247:DNA; D017979:Gold Colloid; D006801:Humans; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles; D000077274:Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman
chemical_list: D017979:Gold Colloid; D004247:DNA