About the Authors
- Ekaterina Y. Lukianova-Hleb
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Xiaoyang Ren
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Pamela E. Constantinou
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Brian P. Danysh
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Derek L. Shenefelt
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Daniel D. Carson
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Mary C. Farach-Carson
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Vladimir A. Kulchitsky
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Affiliation Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Science of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
- Xiangwei Wu
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Daniel S. Wagner
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Dmitri O. Lapotko
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* E-mail: dl5@rice.edu
Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Wrote the paper: EYLH DSW DOL. Conceived the mechanism of cell targeting as the nanoparticle cluster – plasmonic nanobubble threshold effect and designed the experimental set up: DOL. Designed cell models and discussed the results: DDC MCFC VAK XW DSW EYLH DOL. Performed the experiments (prepared and characterized the cells): EYLH XR PEC BPD DLS. Performed the experiments (characterized the nanoparticles and plasmonic nanobubbles): EYLH DOL.