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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Coord Chem Rev. 2016 Apr 19;320-321:216–237. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2016.03.012

Table 2.

Conjugation chemistries for attaching proteins and nucleic acids to QDs.

Conjugation QDs Biomolecules Product
Amide formation graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0012.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0013.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0014.jpg
Thioether formation graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0015.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0016.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0017.jpg
Tetrazine-norbornene
cycloaddition
graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0018.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0019.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0020.jpg
Azide-alkyne
cycloaddition
graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0021.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0022.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0023.jpg
Streptavidin-biotin
binding
graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0024.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0025.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0026.jpg
Antibody-Protein A/G
binding
graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0027.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0028.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0029.jpg
His-tag self-assembly graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0030.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0031.jpg graphic file with name nihms-792143-t0032.jpg