A sensing system has been obtained by self-assembly of multiple fluorescent indicators and monolayer protected gold nanoparticles. The system is able to discriminate between each of the eight nucleotides NDP and NTP (N = A, T, G, C) in a quantitative manner at micromolar concentrations.
Jürgen Brugger, Olivier Martin, Giovanni Boero, Hsiang-Chu Wang, Ana Conde Rubio, Henry Shao-Chi Yu
Raffaella Buonsanti, Philippe Benjamin Green, Alexander Nicolas Chen, Victoria Lapointe