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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Acc Chem Res. 2018 May 4;51(5):1073–1081. doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00606

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Bioorthogonal chemistries comprise reagents (blue circle and arc) that react reliably and with high specificity in complex environments. These reactions enable target biomolecules to be covalently ligated with fluorophores, affinity tags, or other probes (red star).