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Figure 2.4 The general design of a cisplatin modification agent consists of the reactive cisplatin group and a short linker that typically terminates in a detectable label.

Use of sulfo-NHS-LC-SPDP or other heterobifunctional crosslinkers to modify PAMAM dendrimers may be done along with the use of a secondary conjugation reaction to couple a detectable label or another protein to the dendrimer surface. Patri et al. (2004) used the SPDP activation method along with amine-reactive fluorescent labels (FITC or 6-carboxytetramethylrhodamine succinimidyl ester) to create an antibody conjugate, which also was detectable by fluorescent imaging. Thomas et al. (2004) used a similar procedure and the same crosslinker to thiolate dendrimers for conjugation with sulfo-SMCC-activated antibodies. In this case, the dendrimers were labeled with FITC at a level of 5 fluorescent molecules per G-5 PAMAM molecule. 

Inorganic particles are used extensively in various bioapplications, too. Gold nanoparticles long have been used as detection labels for immunohistochemical (IHC) staining and lateral flow diagnostic testing. These dark, dense particles provide single particle detection capability... 

Figure 16.6 The solid phase ICAT reagent provides a thiol-reactive iodoacetyl group to capture cysteine peptides, a spacer containing stable isotopic labels, and a photo-cleavable group that can release the captured peptides for mass spec analysis. The VICAT mass tag is a solution phase labeling agent that also has a photo-cleavable site to release isolated peptides from a (strept)avidin affinity resin. This compound adds a fluorescent group to better detect labeled peptides as they are being isolated from a sample.

Detection/Labeling Possibilities for Cross-Linked Sites. 184... 

Fig. 1. Labeling of degraded chromatin by the TUNEL assay. During apoptosis endogenous, endonucleases cleave chromatin in the hnker region between nucleosomes. The resulting nucleosome multimers are labeled by TdT and a dUTP analog with a detectable label (biotin, DIG, or FITC) shown as. The additional nucleotide in the reaction (here shown as dCTP) may be any dNTP and serves to extend the labeling reaction by preventing steric hindrance by two adjacent labeled dUTPs. (Abbreviations are as in text.)...

Immunosensors can be classified into two broad categories non-labelled and labelled. Non-labelled immunosensors are designed in such a way that the immunocomplex i.e. the antigen-antibody complex) is directly determined by measuring the physical changes induced by the complex formation. In contrast, labelled immimosensors include a sensitively detectable label, so the inmumocomplex is determined by measuring the label. 

A suitable XPS derivatizing agent should have the following features (1) A readily detectable labelling atom (a) of high cross section for sensitive XPS... 

Calvin and coworkers, in their classical studies of photosynthetic processes, detected labeled triose phosphates and hexose phosphates on bi-dimensional chromatograms, using phenol-water and 1-butanol-pro-pionic acid-water as solvents.120121 In addition to the detection of radioactivity, an ammonium molybdate-nitric acid color reagent was used to detect phosphorus.16 Acidic-solvent developers were used to obviate decomposition of the esters. 

The TLM detection method has been applied to detect labeled amino acids. For instance, after separation in a conventional capillary, DABSYL-labeled amino acids were detected in a Pyrex TLM detector chip. The LOD was 4.6 x l() 8 M, as compared to the LOD of 5.2 X 10-6 M obtained by the conventional absorbance method [343]. TLM has also been applied for the analysis of metal ions such as Co [319,734], Ni [735], Pb [736], Fe [734], and of organic molecules such as o-toluidine after its oxidation [737],... 

Un 2.8 days (K, y) In(III)-bleomycin In(III)-oxine Tumor detection Labeled leukocytes (abscesses, infections, inflammations), labeled platelets (thrombosis, transplant rejection)... 

The above reactions are given as examples of the methods used to link haptens and antibodies to detectable labels a comprehensive listing of conjugation procedures is beyond the scope of this book. 

By itself, biotin is not a detectable label. It is used as a label because a subsequent irreversible reaction with the proteins avidin or streptavidin (K > 1012 M 1) can be used for ultrasensitive detection, if these proteins have been labeled with an enzyme and an activity stain is used. Conjugates of these proteins with alkaline... 

Detect label according to methods presented in Chapter 7. 

When compared to the analysis of hybridization events by detecting labels -even on arrays, the DNA MassARRAY approach differs significantly. The MassEXTEND assay is designed to give only the relevant information. The mass spec-trometric approach enables a direct analyte detection with 100% specificity and needs no redundancy. This accuracy and efficacy is combined with sample miniaturization, bioinformatics and chip-based technologies for parallel processing of numerous samples. 

Before considering detector characteristics and some recent developments in chemiluminescence detection, it should be noted that analytical applications of chemiluminescence involve two types of chemiluminescent response. In the first type, the chemiluminescent molecule is used as a detection label and is, therefore, present in limiting concentration relative to the reagents used to initiate the chemiluminescent reaction. The chemical reaction will therefore be pseudo first order. The slowest process in the sequence of events leading to light emission is the reaction itself, e.g., hydrolysis, bond-breaking, and rearrangements. From Eq. 

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