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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 18.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1955:135–146. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9148-8_10

Table 1.

Features and recommended applications of different bioorthogonal probes

Copper-catalyzed reaction Copper-free reactions
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Alkyne
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Phosphine
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Cyclooctyne
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Western blot ✓ ✓
Immunoprecipitation ✓
Flow cytometry/immunofluorescence (fixed cells) ✓ ✓
Flow cytometry/immunofluorescence (live cells) ✓