A novel fluorescent label based on biological fluorescent nanoparticles and its application in cell recognition

Uniform-sized fluorescent nanoparticles have been prepared by employing silica as the shell and a highly luminescent dye complex of ruthenium ion and bipyridyl, tris(2,2’-bipyridyl) dichlororuthenium(II) hexahydrate as the core of the nanoparticles. A novel fluorescent label method is proposed, which is based on the biological fluorescent nanoparticles on the foundation of nanotechnology, biotechnology and fluorescent label technology. In comparison with the conventional fluorophores as fluorescent labels such as fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) label, this new label shows more superiority in photochemical stability, detection sensitivity and application scope for the biomedicine research. SmIgG⁺ B lymphocytes isolated from the circulating blood of human beings can be easily recognized by using this new fluorescent label.