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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Jul 28;132(29):10027–10033. doi: 10.1021/ja910988d

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

General strategy followed for the ligation of peptides to PEGylated QDs. Peptide 2 is ligated to QD:peptide 1 to yield the QD:peptide 3 product. The highlighted Y and R residues in peptide 3 are subsequently cleaved by addition of the proteases chymotrypsin or trypsin.