Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Phosphorylated lipid-conjugated oligonucleotide selectively anchors on cell membranes with high alkaline phosphatase expression

  • Cheng Jin,
  • Jiaxuan He,
  • Jianmei Zou,
  • Wenjing Xuan,
  • Ting Fu,
  • Ruowen Wang,
  • Weihong Tan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10639-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Membrane-anchored DNA probes have been used to study molecular interactions and control cell assembly, but are not selective for different cell membranes. Here the authors develop a lipid-conjugated oligonucleotide for alkaline phosphatase-dependent cell membrane anchorage and use it to distinguish different cancer cells.