Cellular & Molecular Imaging Group

Tsourkas*, A., Shinde-Patil*, V., Wolley, A., Allport, J., Weissleder, R. (2004) In vivo imaging of activated endothelium using anti-VCAM-1 magneto-optical probes. Manuscript in preparation (*contributed equally).

Tsourkas, A., Newton, G., Perez, J., Basilion, J., Weissleder, R. (2004) Real-time detection of peroxidase-mediated protein cross-linking with yellow fluorescent protein. Manuscript in preparation.

Kelly*, K., Allport*, J., Tsourkas, A., Shinde-Patil, V., Josephson, L., Weissleder, R. (2004) VCAM-1-mediated cell internalization allows in vivo imaging of activated endothelium. Submitted to Circulation Research (*contributed equally).

Tsourkas, A., Weissleder, R. (2004) Illuminating the dynamics of intracellular activity with ‘active’ molecular reporters. Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems, 1(2), 133-145.

Tsourkas, A., Hofstetter, O., Hofstetter, H., Weissleder, R., Josephson, L. (2004) Magnetic relaxation switch immunosensors detect enantiomeric impurities. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 43(18), 2395-2399.

Perez, J., Simeone, F., Tsourkas, A., Josephson, L., Weissleder, R. (2004) Peroxidase substrate nanosensors for MR imaging. Nano Letters, 4(1), 119-122.

Bao, G., Tsourkas, A., Santangelo, P. (2004) Engineering nanostructured probes for sensitive intracellular gene detection. Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems, 1(1), 23-36.

Santangelo, P., Nix, B., Tsourkas, A., Bao, G. (2004) Dual FRET molecular beacons for mRNA detection in living cells. Nucleic Acids Research, 32(6), e57.

Tsourkas, A., Behlke, M., Xu, Y., Bao, G. (2003) Spectroscopic features of dual fluorescence/luminescence resonance energy-transfer molecular beacons. Analytical Chemistry, 75(15), 3697-3703.

Tsourkas, A., Behlke, M., Rose, S., Bao, G. (2003) Hybridization kinetics and thermodynamics of molecular beacons. Nucleic Acids Research, 31(4), 1319-1330.

Tsourkas, A., Bao, G. (2002) Shedding light on health and disease using molecular beacons. Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics, 1(4), 1-13.

Tsourkas, A., Behlke, M., Bao, G. (2002) Structure-function relationships of shared-stem and conventional molecular beacons. Nucleic Acids Research, 30(19), 4208-4215.

Tsourkas, A., Behlke, M., Bao, G. (2002) Hybridization of 2’-O-methyl and 2’-deoxy molecular beacons to RNA and DNA targets. Nucleic Acids Research, 30(23), 5168-5174.