Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 3 , Pages 208-214 , September 2007

Protein seeding of gold nanoparticles and mechanism of glycation sensing

  • Ranjita GhoshMoulick, PhD,

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University, Calcutta, India
    • ,
  • Jaydeep Bhattacharya, MS,

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University, Calcutta, India
    • ,
  • Chanchal K. Mitra, PhD,

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
    • ,
  • Soumen Basak, PhD,

      Affiliations

    • Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India
    • ,
  • Anjan Kr. Dasgupta, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University, Calcutta, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, 700019, India.

Received 6 November 2006 ,Accepted 24 April 2007.

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 No conflict of interest was reported by the authors of this paper.

PII: S1549-9634(07)00090-1

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2007.04.002

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 3 , Pages 208-214 , September 2007

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