Figure 4.

Quantitative analysis of A) Dox and B) sgc8c-Dox inside CCRF-CEM cells. The cells (105 cells) were incubated with Dox or aptamer-Dox conjugates in culture medium without FBS at 37 °C, 5% CO2 for 2 h. A) Dashed and solid lines represent the fluorescence signal from Dox before and after trypsin treatment, respectively. Trypsin was applied to remove the membrane-bound Dox. B) Fluorescence signal from sgc8c-Dox inside cells determined by flow cytometry. All the signals have been subtracted by the fluorescence intensity from TDO5-Dox nonspecifically uptaken by CCRF-CEM cells.