Plasmonic Enhancement of Protein Function
Marco Locarno, Qiangrui Dong, Xin Meng, Cristiano Glessi, Nynke Marije Hettema, Nidas Brandsma, Sebbe Blokhuizen, Alejandro Castañeda Garcia, Srividya Ganapathy, Marco Post, Thieme Schmidt, Lars van Roemburg, Bing Xu, Chun-Ting Cho, Liedewij Laan, , Daan Brinks
This study demonstrates plasmonic enhancement of protein function in living cells by coupling designed nanoparticles to Archaerhodopsin proteins, increasing fluorescence and response speed.
bioRxiv · Feb 7, 2024 · PreprintBiophysics