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Decoration of discretely immobilized cowpea mosaic virus with luminescent quantum dots.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids - 7 Jun 2005
Medintz Igor L, Sapsford Kim E, Konnert John H, Chatterji Anju, Lin Tianwei, Johnson John E, Mattoussi Hedi
Abstract excerpt
This report describes two related methods for decorating cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) with luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots, QDs). Variants of CPMV are immobilized on a substrate functionalized with NeutrAvidin using modifications of biotin-avidin binding chemistry in combination with metal affinity coordination. For example, using CPMV mutants expressing available 6-histidine sequences inserted...
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