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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 5.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Lett. 2012 Jun 25;12(7):3793–3802. doi: 10.1021/nl301727k

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Measuring trypsin activity using QD-(peptide-Cy3)n conjugates. Trypsin cuts the peptide to dissociate Cy3 acceptor from the QD donor, thereby disengaging FRET, which can be tracked spectroscopically as the ratio of Cy3/QD PL. Other dye acceptors can be used similarly.