Supramolecular electrostatic nanoassemblies for bacterial forensics
Aidee Duarte1, Morris Slutsky, Grady Hanrahan
1Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|December 14, 2011
Abstract:
Electrostatic nanoassemblies were employed to identify bacterial growth conditions. They comprise a cationic conjugated oligoelectrolyte and fluorescein-tagged ssDNA and were optimized with a hybrid, computational neural network model. The photoluminescence spectra contained the oligomer and sensitized fluorescein emission. The spectra changed depending on the growth history of the bacteria introduced (see figure).
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