BIONANOTECNOLOGIA - Interacções Bio/não-Bio
* Interacções entre nanopartículas de ouro e biomoléculas (anticorpos, proteínas e ácidos nucleicos)
* Aplicações em biodetecção e diagnóstico biomédico
ESPECTROSCOPIA DE RESSONÂNCIA DE RAMAN
* Proteínas (ferroquelatase, proteínas hémicas)
* Nanoestruturas baseadas em porfirinas
PATHOGEN MIMETIC STEALTH NANOCARRIERS FOR DRUG DELIVERY: A FUTURE POSSIBILITY
Miguel Cavadas, África González-Fernández, Ricardo Franco
Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine (2011), Published on-line May, 25, 2011
BIONANOCONJUGATES OF TYROSINASE AND PEPTIDE-DERIVATISED GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR BIOSENSING OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS
J. Cortez, E. Vorobieva, D. Gralheira, I. Osório, L. Soares, N. Vale, E. Pereira, P. Gomes, R. Franco
J. Nanopart. Res. (2011), 13(2), 1101–1113
MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION IN SELF-ASSEMBLED BINARY PORPHYRIN NANOTUBES REVEALED BY RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
Ricardo Franco, John L. Jacobsen, Haorong Wang, Zhongchun Wang, Krisztina István, Neil E. Schore, Yujiang Song, Craig J. Medforth, John A Shelnutt;
PhysChemChemPhys (2010), 12, 4072–4077
GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS METHODS; P. Baptista, E. Pereira, P. Eaton, G. Doria, A. Miranda, I. Gomes, P. Quaresma, R. Franco
Anal. Bioanal. Chem (2008), 391, 943–950.
PROBING SURFACE PROPERTIES OF CYTOCHROME c AT Au BIONANOCONJUGATES; I. Gomes, N. C. Santos, L. M. A. Oliveira, A. Quintas, P. Eaton, E. Pereira, R. Franco
J. Phys. Chem. C (2008), 112, 16340–16347.
GOLD NANOPARTICLE PROBE-BASED ASSAY FOR RAPID AND DIRECT DETECTION OF Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA IN CLINICAL SAMPLES
Pedro V. Baptista, Maria Koziol-Montewka, Jolanta Paluch-Oles, Gonçalo Doria, Ricardo Franco
Clin. Chem. (2006), 52 (7), 1433-1434.
CHELATASES: DISTORT TO SELECT?
Salam Al-Karadaghi, Ricardo Franco, Mats Hansson, John A. Shelnutt, Grazia Isaya, Gloria C. Ferreira
Trends in Biochemical Sciences (2006), 31 (3), 135-142.