Proteolytic activity monitored by fluorescence resonance energy transfer through quantum-dot-peptide conjugates

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 581-589

  Medintz, Igor L ^a   Clapp, Aaron R ^a   Brunel, Florence M ^b   Tiefenbrunn, Theresa ^b   Tetsuo Uyeda, H ^a   Chang, Eddie L ^a   Deschamps, Jeffrey R ^a   Dawson, Philip E ^b   Mattoussi, Hedi ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; SUBSTRATES;

CHYMOTRYPSIN; MODULAR PEPTIDE DESIGN; NANOASSEMBLY; NANOSCAFFOLDS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

NANOMATERIAL; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; QUANTUM DOT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NANOSTRUCTURES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PEPTIDES; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33745624868     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1676     Document Type: Review

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