Peptide-Mediated Cellular Delivery of Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Gemmill K., Delehanty J., Stewart M., Susumu K., Oh E., Deschamps J., Blanco-Canosa J., Dawson P., Huston A., Medintz I., US Naval Research Laboratory, US
Semiconductor CdSe/Zn quantum dots are ideal materials for biological imaging due to their superior optical properties over fluorescent proteins and organic dyes. However, cytosolic cellular delivery of quantum dots has been hindered by endosomal sequestration [...]