A molecular recognition-activatable DNA nanofirecracker enables signal-enhanced imaging in living cells

Xiaojing Xing¹, Jin Li², Liping Qiu³+1

• ¹NHC Key Laboratory of Birth Defect for Research and Prevention, Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Changsha 410000, China. qiuliping@hnu.edu.cn and Engineering Technology Research Center of Henan Province for Solar Catalysis, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang, Henan 473061, China. xjxing@hnu.edu.cn and Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.+2