Multidentate polymeric ligands for long-term bioimaging using highly stable and functionalized quantum dots

Emerson Giovanelli; Eleonora Muro; Mariana Tasso; Gary Sitbon; Mohamed Hanafi; Thomas Pons; Benoît Dubertret; Nicolas Lequeux

doi:10.1117/12.2039952

24 March 2014 Multidentate polymeric ligands for long-term bioimaging using highly stable and functionalized quantum dots

Emerson Giovanelli, Eleonora Muro, Mariana Tasso, Gary Sitbon, Mohamed Hanafi, Thomas Pons, Benoît Dubertret, Nicolas Lequeux

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Proceedings Volume 8955, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications IX; 89550D (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039952
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Colloidal fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals, named “quantum dots”, possess unique features, such as a tunable peak wavelength (according to their composition and their size) or a large absorption cross-section, that make them very attractive for biomedical imaging. Nevertheless, typical syntheses provide nanoparticles capped with hydrophobic ligands. To be used in long-term bioexperiments, they have thus to be modified to exhibit essentially a high colloidal stability in aqueous conditions, but also a low non-specific adsorption, a small size and functionalization moities. As all of these properties are controlled by the layer of coating ligands, we designed a bidentate monozwitterionic ligand, to first address the need of small-sized and antibiofouling hydrophilic probes. But the corresponding quantum dots revealed to be unstable in highly diluted conditions and difficult to functionalize. To further increase the affinity between the nanoparticles and their surrounding ligands, we synthesized a multidentate polyzwitterionic ligand, issued from the copolymerization of a bidentate monomer and a monozwitterionic one. The nanocrystals passivated by this polymeric ligand showed an exceptional colloidal stability, regardless of the medium conditions (pH, salinity, dilution, and biological environment), and we demonstrated the affinity of the polymer exceeded by three orders of magnitude that of the bidentate ligand. The synthesis of the multidentate polyzwitterionic ligand proved also to be easily tunable and allowed the facile introduction of reacting moieties. Further functionalization of the corresponding quantum dots with biomolecules led to successful specific targeting, which could be confirmed, as an example, through FRET experiments.

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Emerson Giovanelli, Eleonora Muro, Mariana Tasso, Gary Sitbon, Mohamed Hanafi, Thomas Pons, Benoît Dubertret, and Nicolas Lequeux "Multidentate polymeric ligands for long-term bioimaging using highly stable and functionalized quantum dots", Proc. SPIE 8955, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications IX, 89550D (24 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039952

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Polymers

Nanoparticles

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer

Quantum dots

Luminescence

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