Sorption and desorption of PVA-pyrene chains in and out of agarose Gel.

In situ steady-state fluorescence (SSF) measurement technique was applied to investigation of pyrene labeled Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA-Py) molecules diffusion in and out of agarose gels. Gel samples with four different concentration of agarose were prepared. PVA-Py was synthesized by "click" chemistry method and dissolved in water to use in diffusion experiments.

A new approach for in vitro imaging of breast cancer cells by anti-metadherin targeted PVA-pyrene.

Poly(vinyl alcohol)-pyrene-anti-metadherin (PVA-Py-(Anti-MTDH)), a novel antibody based water soluble probe containing both fluorescent and target sites in the structure for in vitro imaging of breast cancer cells is reported here. Since breast cancer cells have an excess of MDTH protein expressed on the surface, a PVA-Py prepared by "Click chemistry" approach is targeted by Anti-MTDH antibody and applied to the MCF-7 cell line. After characterization, the designed architecture was evaluated in terms of cell incorporation efficiency and compared with a non-targeted structure (PVA-Py).

Fluorescence sensing of glucose using glucose oxidase modified by PVA-pyrene prepared via "click" chemistry.

Poly(vinyl alcohol)-pyrene-glucose oxidase (PVA-Py-GOx), a water-soluble polymer possessing both fluorescent and oxidant sites in the structure, is synthesized by "click" chemistry and modification processes and characterized. The morphology of PVA-Py-GOx was characterized with atomic force microscopy (AFM), and a heterogeneous morphology due to the incorporation of GOx was observed. The capability of PVA-Py-GOx to act as a bioprobe for fluorescence sensing of glucose is examined.