A new AIE multi-block polyurethane copolymer material for subcellular microfilament imaging in living cells

Yu-Qing Niu; Tao He; Jun Song; Si-Ping Chen; Xiang-Yu Liu; Zhi-Gang Chen; Ying-Jie Yu; Shi-Guo Chen

doi:10.1039/c7cc02555f

A new AIE multi-block polyurethane copolymer material for subcellular microfilament imaging in living cells

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Jul 4;53(54):7541-7544. doi: 10.1039/c7cc02555f.

Authors

Yu-Qing Niu¹, Tao He, Jun Song, Si-Ping Chen, Xiang-Yu Liu, Zhi-Gang Chen, Ying-Jie Yu, Shi-Guo Chen

Affiliation

¹ Nanshan District Key Lab for Biopolymers and Safety Evaluation, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, P. R. China. csg@szu.edu.cn.

PMID: 28634606
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc02555f

Abstract

A multi-block fluorescent amphiphilic polyurethane copolymer (TPE-PU), self-assembling into hairy, water-soluble micelles, is used as a subcellular microfilament probe in living cells.

MeSH terms

Actin Cytoskeleton / chemistry*
Actin Cytoskeleton / metabolism
Animals
Cell Survival
Fluorescent Dyes / chemical synthesis
Fluorescent Dyes / chemistry*
HeLa Cells
Humans
Micelles
Neuroglia / chemistry*
Neuroglia / metabolism
Polyurethanes / chemical synthesis
Polyurethanes / chemistry*
Rats
Solubility
Spectrometry, Fluorescence
Water / chemistry

Substances

Fluorescent Dyes
Micelles
Polyurethanes
Water