Publication Date:
1998-09-25
Description:
Highly luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (zinc sulfide-capped cadmium selenide) have been covalently coupled to biomolecules for use in ultrasensitive biological detection. In comparison with organic dyes such as rhodamine, this class of luminescent labels is 20 times as bright, 100 times as stable against photobleaching, and one-third as wide in spectral linewidth. These nanometer-sized conjugates are water-soluble and biocompatible. Quantum dots that were labeled with the protein transferrin underwent receptor-mediated endocytosis in cultured HeLa cells, and those dots that were labeled with immunomolecules recognized specific antibodies or antigens.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chan, W C -- Nie, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Sep 25;281(5385):2016-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9748158" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Cadmium Compounds/chemistry
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Endocytosis
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*Fluorescent Antibody Technique
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*Fluorescent Dyes
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HeLa Cells
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Humans
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Luminescence
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Molecular Probe Techniques
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Particle Size
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Receptors, Transferrin/metabolism
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*Selenium Compounds/chemistry
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*Semiconductors
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Solubility
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*Sulfides/chemistry
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Transferrin/metabolism
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*Zinc Compounds/chemistry
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
