Red-emitting protein-coated conjugated polymer nanoparticles

R Peters; L Sandiford; D M Owen; E Kemal; S Bourke; L A Dailey; M Green

doi:10.1039/c6pp00160b

Red-emitting protein-coated conjugated polymer nanoparticles

Photochem Photobiol Sci. 2016 Nov 2;15(11):1448-1452. doi: 10.1039/c6pp00160b.

Authors

R Peters¹, L Sandiford², D M Owen¹, E Kemal³, S Bourke¹, L A Dailey⁴, M Green¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. mark.a.green@kcl.ac.uk.
² Department of Physics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. mark.a.green@kcl.ac.uk and Department of Imaging Chemistry and Biology, Division of Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, 4th floor, Lambeth Wing, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK.
³ Department of Physics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. mark.a.green@kcl.ac.uk and Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, 5th Floor, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK.
⁴ Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, 5th Floor, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK.

PMID: 27714316
DOI: 10.1039/c6pp00160b

Abstract

Red emitting materials are desirable in biology due to the transparency of certain biological tissues at these wavelengths. Here, we report the synthesis of aqueous dispersions of amphiphilic protein (hydrophobin) capped red-emitting cyano-substituted poly(p-phenylenevinylene) conjugated polymer nanoparticles (CPNs) and their use in labeling live mammalian (HeLa) cells.