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Kinetics of Molecular Recognition Mediated Nanoparticle Self-Assembly
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Nanoscale quantum dot-antibody conjugates have been shown to self-assemble to form micron-scale aggregates in the presence of specific proteomic antigen. The self-assembly process exhibits sigmoidal kinetics, suggesting that nucleation limits aggregation. Self-assembly kinetics in this study is characterized by flow cytometric analysis of the aggregation reaction over time. A range of physiologically relevant concentrations of the protein angiopoietin-2, a candidate cancer biomarker, are incubated with quantum dots conjugated with a polyclonal mixture of anti-angiopoietin-2 antibodies. Antigen concentration modulates the slopes and inflection times of the sigmoidal kinetics curves. An understanding of self-assembly kinetics in this system may lead to improvements in sensitivity and specificity of this novel proteomic biomarker detection technique and improve the screening, diagnostics, and therapy response monitoring for cancers and other diseases. This approach to studying the kinetics of nanoparticle self-assembly may also provide a valuable tool for understanding the fundamental characteristics of nanoscale particle aggregation.
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Kinetics of Molecular Recognition Mediated Nanoparticle Self-Assembly
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Nanoscale quantum dot-antibody conjugates have been shown to self-assemble to form micron-scale aggregates in the presence of specific proteomic antigen. The self-assembly process exhibits sigmoidal kinetics, suggesting that nucleation limits aggregation. Self-assembly kinetics in this study is characterized by flow cytometric analysis of the aggregation reaction over time. A range of physiologically relevant concentrations of the protein angiopoietin-2, a candidate cancer biomarker, are incubated with quantum dots conjugated with a polyclonal mixture of anti-angiopoietin-2 antibodies. Antigen concentration modulates the slopes and inflection times of the sigmoidal kinetics curves. An understanding of self-assembly kinetics in this system may lead to improvements in sensitivity and specificity of this novel proteomic biomarker detection technique and improve the screening, diagnostics, and therapy response monitoring for cancers and other diseases. This approach to studying the kinetics of nanoparticle self-assembly may also provide a valuable tool for understanding the fundamental characteristics of nanoscale particle aggregation.
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