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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2018 May 30;10(21):17630-17638. doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b03211. Epub 2018 May 16.

Coordinating Self-Assembly of Copper Perylenetetracarboxylate Nanorods: Selectively Lighting up Normal Cells around Cancerous Ones for Better Cancer Diagnosis.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Lizhi Wang, Xuedong Gao, Ying Wei, Kaerdun Liu, Jianbin Huang, Jide Wang, Yun Yan

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  1. Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Fine Chemicals, Ministry of Education and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Xinjiang University , Urumqi 830046 , People's Republic of China.
  2. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , People's Republic of China.

PMID: 29733187 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b03211

Abstract

Specific imaging of cancer cells has been well-accepted in cancer diagnosis although it cannot precisely mark the boundary between the normal and cancerous cells and report their mutual influence. We report a nanorod fluorescent probe of copper perylenetetracarbonate (PTC-Cu) that can specifically light up normal cells. In combination with cancer cell imaging, the cocultured normal and cancer cells can be lit up with different colors, offering a clear contrast between the normal and cancer cells when they coexist. Because cancerous cells are only 20-30% in cancer area, this provides a possibility to visibly detect the mutual influence between the cancer and normal cells during therapy. We expect this method is beneficial to better cancer diagnosis and therapy.

Keywords: Perylenetetracarboxylate; cell imaging; coordination; fluorescent probe; nanorods; selective stain; self-assembly

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