title: A nanocluster beacon based on the template transformation of DNA-templated silver nanoclusters.
abstract: In this work, we developed a novel light-up nanocluster beacon (NCB) based on shuttling dark silver nanoclusters (NCs) to a bright scaffold through hybridization. The fluorescence enhancement was as high as 70-fold when the two templates were on the opposite sides of the duplexes, enabling sensitive and selective detection of DNA.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. ekwang@ciac.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Ye
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Teng
authors.forename: Xiaofang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Shan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jinbo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Erkang
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D012834:Silver; D004247:DNA