Interactions of coinage metal nanoclusters with low-molecular-weight biocompounds

AA Buglak, MT Nguyen - Biophysical Reviews, 2024 - Springer
Nowadays, coinage metal nanoclusters (NCs) are largely presented in diagnostics,
bioimaging, and biocatalysis due to their high biocompatibility, chemical stability, and …

Estimating strengths of individual hydrogen bonds in RNA base pairs: toward a consensus between different computational approaches

A Halder, D Data, PP Seelam, D Bhattacharyya… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Noncoding RNA molecules are composed of a large variety of noncanonical base pairs that
shape up their functionally competent folded structures. Each base pair is composed of at …

Amino-Acid-Conjugated Gold Clusters: Interaction of Alanine and Tryptophan with Au8 and Au20

MH Abdalmoneam, K Waters, N Saikia… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The stability and electronic properties of gold (Au) clusters interacting with the amino acids
alanine (Ala) and tryptophan (Trp) in their canonical and zwitterionic configurations were …

Exploring the intermolecular interaction of serine and threonine dipeptides with gold nanoclusters and nanoparticles of different shapes and sizes by quantum …

HR Abd El-Mageed, M Taha - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of this work is to study the interaction between gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) and two
cyclic dipeptides, serine cyclic dipeptide [c (SS)] and threonine cyclic dipeptide [c (TT)] in …

Ab-initio simulation of the interaction of gold nanoclusters with glycine

AS Bahota, KK Singh, R Kumar, P Tandon - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanomaterial-Biomolecules complexes have several important applications in biological
processes and bionanoscience. In this regard, the adsorption of the simplest amino acid …

Interaction of Cysteine with Aun (n=8, 10, 12) Even Neutral Clusters: A Theoretical Study

R Srivastava - ChemistrySelect, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The intermolecular interactions between gold nanoparticles Aun (n= 8, 10, 12) with (neutral
(o), cationic (+) and anionic (‐)) cysteine amino acid is investigated by means of density …

D-Proline capped gold nanoclusters for turn-on detection of serum Raltitrexed

W Lan, Q Tan, J Qiao, G Shen, L Qi - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
With d-proline as the reducing and capping agent, fluorescent gold nanoclusters were
rapidly prepared (d-Pro@ AuNCs) within 10 min at 100° C. In the present of gold …

Enhancement of internal motions of lysozyme through interaction with gold nanoclusters and its optical imaging

SK Mudedla, ERA Singam, J Vijay Sundar… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Understanding the interaction of gold nanoclusters with proteins has important ramifications
in various fields. We present a study of the interaction between gold nanoclusters and …

Understanding the Effect of Single Cysteine Mutations on Gold Nanoclusters as Studied by Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Modeling

S Chall, SS Mati, I Das, A Kundu, G De… - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent metal nanoclusters have generated considerable excitement in
nanobiotechnology, particularly in the applications of biolabeling, targeted delivery, and …

Theoretical studies of Raman scattering properties of methylphosphine and methylamine adsorbed on gold clusters

S Bhardwaj, S Rai, TK Sau, H Singh - Vibrational Spectroscopy, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent reports have demonstrated that nanoclusters of silver and gold can act as substrates
for Raman signal enhancements. This article presents a density functional theory (DFT) …