title: One-step engineering of silver nanoclusters-aptamer assemblies as luminescent labels to target tumor cells.
abstract: We reported one-step engineering of intrinsically fluorescent silver nanoclusters-aptamer assemblies that would allow the development of facile and specific luminescent labels for target tumor cell recognition and analysis.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Biology, Key Laboratory for Bio-Nanotechnology and Molecular Engineering of Hunan Province, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jinjin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Xiaoxiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Kemin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhihe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Qing
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Xiaohai
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D052157:Aptamers, Nucleotide / Q000737:chemistry*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D052157:Aptamers, Nucleotide; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D012834:Silver