One-step synthesis of peptide-programmed QDs as ready-to-use nanoprobes

• DOI: 10.1039/c3cc40524a
• Publication Date: 2013-04-03T10:41:59Z
• Authors: Jing Jia; Pengfei Zhang; Duyang Gao; Zonghai Sheng; Dehong Hu; Ping Gong; Chunlei Wu; Jianhai Chen; Lintao Cai
• Keywords: Conjugate; Sequence (biology)

We developed a facile one-step method to produce ready-to-use quantum dots based on peptide sequence containing hexahistidine(his6-tag), poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), and functional group, which lead stable customized peptide–QDs conjugates that could serve as fluorescent nanoprobes for biological imaging detection.