Antibody-capped mesoporous nanoscopic materials: design of a probe for the selective chromo-fluorogenic detection of finasteride.

ABSTRACT: The synthesis of capped mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN) conjugated with an antibody (AB) as a gatekeeper has been carried out in order to obtain a delivery system able to release an entrapped cargo (dye) in the presence of a target molecule (antigen) to which the conjugated antibody binds selectively. In particular, MSN loaded with rhodamine B and functionalized on the external surface with a suitable derivative of N-(t-butyl)-3-oxo-(5α,17β)-4-aza-androst-1-ene-17-carboxamide (finasteride) have been prepared (S1). The addition of polyclonal antibodies against finasteride induced capping of the pores due to the interaction with the anchored hapten-like finasteride derivative to give a MSN-hapten-AB nanoparticle S1-AB. It was found that the addition of capped material S1-AB to water so

SUBMITTER: Climent E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3922482 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature