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American Chemical Society, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 23(6), p. 20709-20716, 2014

DOI: 10.1021/am504498x

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Electrically Controlled Delivery of Cargo into Single Human Neural Stem Cell

Journal article published in 2014 by Tae-Hyung Kim, Hyeon-Yeol Cho ORCID, Ki-Bum Lee, Seung U. Kim, Jeong-Woo Choi
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Abstract

Nanoprobe-based techniques have emerged as an efficient tool for the manipulation and analysis of single cells. Here, we report a powerful whole-electrical single cell manipulation tool that enables rapid and controllable delivery of cargo into single neural stem cells with precision monitoring of the cell penetration process using a conductive nanoprobe. The highly electrically sensitive nanoprobes that were fabricated and the indium tin oxide electrode-integrated cell chip were found to be very effective for monitoring the cell penetration process via currents changes that appear as spike-like negative currents. Moreover, the assembly of cargoes onto the nanoprobes was controllable and could reach its maximum load in a very short period of time (<10min) based on the same electrical system that was used for monitoring cell pentration and without the need for any complex chemical linkers or mediators. Even more remarkably, the cargo assembled on the surface of nanoprobe was successfully released in a very short period of time (<10s), regardless of the surrounding intracellular or extracellular environments. The monitoring of cell penetration, assembly of quantum dots (QDs) and release of QDs into the intracellular environment were all accomplished using our whole-electrical system that combined a conductive nanprobe with cell chip technology. This is a novel technology, which can eliminate complex and time-consuming steps owing to chemical modifications, as well as reduce the time needed for the delivery of cargo into the cell cytosol/nucleus during cell penetration, which is very important for reducing cell damage.