Nanostructured substrates for detection and characterization of circulating rare cells: from materials research to clinical applications

J Dong, JF Chen, M Smalley, M Zhao, Z Ke… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Circulating rare cells in the blood are of great significance for both materials research and
clinical applications. For example, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have been demonstrated …

A novel ratiometric fluorescent probe for detection of iron ions and zinc ions based on dual-emission carbon dots

Y Wang, S Lao, W Ding, Z Zhang, S Liu - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Herein, we developed a facile route for the preparation of dual-emission carbon dots (DCDs)
by carbonizing glutathione in the water/formamide mixture. The synthesized DCDs …

Assembly of dynamic gated and cascaded transient DNAzyme networks

J Dong, Y Ouyang, J Wang, MP O'Hagan, I Willner - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
The dynamic transient formation and depletion of G-quadruplexes regulate gene replication
and transcription. This process was found to be related to various diseases such as cancer …

Photochemically Triggered, Transient, and Oscillatory Transcription Machineries Guide Temporal Modulation of Fibrinogenesis

J Dong, I Willner - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photochemically triggered, transient, and temporally oscillatory-modulated transcription
machineries are introduced. The resulting dynamic transcription circuits are implemented to …

Calix [n] triazolium based turn-on fluorescent sensing ensemble for selective adenosine monophosphate (AMP) detection

J Cho, J Shin, M Kang, P Verwilst, C Lim… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel calix [n] triazolium was synthesized and exhibited excellent selectivity for AMP. The
binding between calix [n] triazolium and chromenolate anions forms a non-fluorescent …

Specific discrimination of zinc and manganese ions by label free dual emissive carbon dots by ratio-metric mode

H Li, X Huang, F Zhang, X Luo, W Yu, C Li, B Jiang… - Talanta, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the worldwide ecological and environmental issues induced by heavy metal
pollution, including zinc and manganese, the ratio-metric discrimination of Zn 2+ and Mn 2+ …

A bifunctional optical probe based on ESIPT-triggered disalicylaldehyde with ratiometric detection of iron and copper ions

YJ Shen, K Zhang - Polyhedron, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we design and synthesize an N-linked disalicylaldehyde H 2 Q j1 based on the
economical substrates, and it is composed of two identical salicylaldehyde moieties with the …

Quantitative real-time in vitro transcription assay (QRIVTA) for transcriptional regulation studies

F Liu, J Xu, X Hu, B Duan, B Xia - Protein & Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The in vitro transcription (IVT) assay is a powerful tool frequently used in dissecting the
molecular mechanism of transcriptional regulation and also plays an impor‑tant role in the …