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Efficient and Site-specific Antibody Labeling by Strain-promoted Azide-alkyne Cycloaddition
Published on: December 23, 2016
Site-specific conjugation of ScFvs antibodies to nanoparticles by bioorthogonal strain-promoted alkyne-nitrone
Miriam Colombo1, Silvia Sommaruga, Serena Mazzucchelli
1NanoBioLab, Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milano, Italy.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 29, 2011
Abstract:
Particularly suitable: An N-terminal serine mutant of anti-HER2 scFv antibody was conjugated to polymer-coated magnetofluorescent nanoparticles by strain-promoted alkyne-nitrone cycloaddition. The resulting nanoparticles (see scheme) proved effective in targeting and labeling HER2-positive breast cancer cells.
