Near-infrared catecholamine nanosensors for high spatiotemporal dopamine imaging

SJ Yang, JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell, AG Beyene… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Dopamine neuromodulation of neural synapses is a process implicated in a number of
critical brain functions and diseases. Development of protocols to visualize this dynamic …

Imaging striatal dopamine release using a nongenetically encoded near infrared fluorescent catecholamine nanosensor

AG Beyene, K Delevich, JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Neuromodulation plays a critical role in brain function in both health and disease, and new
tools that capture neuromodulation with high spatial and temporal resolution are needed. …

High-throughput evolution of near-infrared serotonin nanosensors

…, D Yang, AG Beyene, JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Imaging neuromodulation with synthetic probes is an emerging technology for studying
neurotransmission. However, most synthetic probes are developed through conjugation of …

Electrostatic assemblies of single-walled carbon nanotubes and sequence-tunable peptoid polymers detect a lectin protein and its target sugars

L Chio, JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell, MA Kline, JH Kim… - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
A primary limitation to real-time imaging of metabolites and proteins has been the selective
detection of biomolecules that have no naturally occurring or stable molecular recognition …

Supervised learning model predicts protein adsorption to carbon nanotubes

N Ouassil, RL Pinals, JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Engineered nanoparticles are advantageous for biotechnology applications including
biomolecular sensing and delivery. However, testing compatibility and function of …

Advances in nanomaterials for brain microscopy

JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell, L Chio, GF Dorlhiac… - Nano research, 2018 - Springer
Microscopic imaging of the brain continues to reveal details of its structure, connectivity, and
function. To further improve our understanding of the emergent properties and functions of …

DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters as specific, ratiometric fluorescent dopamine sensors

JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell, A Thakrar… - ACS chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Neurotransmitters are small molecules that orchestrate complex patterns of brain activity.
Unfortunately, there exist few sensors capable of directly detecting individual neurotransmitters. …

Mitigation of carbon nanotube neurosensor induced transcriptomic and morphological changes in mouse microglia with surface passivation

D Yang, SJ Yang, JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell, RL Pinals… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are used in neuroscience for deep-brain imaging,
neuron activity recording, measuring brain morphology, and imaging neuromodulation. …

Giant acceleration of DNA diffusion in an array of entropic barriers

D Kim, C Bowman, JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We investigate with experiments and computer simulations the nonequilibrium dynamics of
DNA polymers crossing arrays of entropic barriers in nanofluidic devices in a pressure-driven …

A universal design for a DNA probe providing ratiometric fluorescence detection by generation of silver nanoclusters

JT Del Bonis-O'Donnell, D Vong, S Pennathur… - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters (AgNCs), the fluorescence emission of which can rival
that of typical organic fluorophores, have made possible a new class of label-free molecular …