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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Biophotonics. 2010 Jan;3(0):89–102. doi: 10.1002/jbio.200910015

Figure 7.

Figure 7

(A) Operating Principe of a SERS Molecular Sentinel nanoprobe; (B) A strong SERS signal is observed when the MS probe is in the hairpin conformation, (closed state); (C) Upon hybridization with the target (open state) the SERS signal is diminished (adapted from Ref. [26]).