Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
...two independent groups, led by Jack Szostak and Larry Gold, developed methods for selecting and amplifying...metal ion, or fold to incorporate themselves into a larger target, such as a protein. Such flexibility makes...
Design and selection for targets can be done largely in vitro;
Easy and reproducible commercial synthesis...advantages of oligonucleotides over proteins is their modularity, which is lost as soon as the aptamer is bound...
Assays that require recognition of ions or particularly small molecules that do not generate an immune...Central PMCID: PMC4071757.
6. Hong, He, et al. “Molecular Imaging with Nucleic Acid Aptamers.” Curr Med ...