<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Senthilkumar, T.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parekh, Nimisha</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nikama, Shrikant B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Asha, S. K.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Orientation effect induced selective chelation of Fe2+ to a glutamic acid appended conjugated polymer for sensing and live cell imaging</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Materials Chemistry B</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DEC</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">THOMAS GRAHAM HOUSE, SCIENCE PARK, MILTON RD, CAMBRIDGE CB4 0WF, CAMBS, ENGLAND</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">299-308</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Intracellular detection and imaging of labile iron(II) pools is very important in tracking physiological processes that demand new and rapid sensing probes. In this report, we present a water soluble polymer based probe for the fluorescence sensing and live cell imaging of labile Fe2+ ions with high selectivity for the first time. The polymer probe was based on conjugated polyfluorene which was appended with amino acid (L-glutamic acid). The biocompatibility of the polymer was confirmed from an MTT assay which demonstrated &amp;gt;90% cell viability even at 300 mu g ml(-1) loading of polymers. Simple glutamic acid did not show selectivity towards any of the divalent ions. However, glutamic acid appended polyfluorene exhibited selective chelation to Fe2+ ions resulting in immediate sensing activity for Fe2+ ions in water and living cells with fluorescence turn-off response. The limit of detection of the PF-Ph-GA polymer probe was 46 (+/- 2) nM which indicated high sensitivity for Fe2+ over other ions reported in the literature. The polymer also exhibited improved sensing activity in the range of intracellular pH (5-9) which is advantageous in differentiating endogenous changes. The probe was successfully applied for the fluorescence imaging of intracellular and supplemented labile iron(II) pools in living HeLa cells.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Foreign&lt;/p&gt;</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4.872</style></custom4></record></records></xml>