title: Asymmetric trimethine 3H-indocyanine dyes: efficient synthesis and protein labeling.
abstract: We present an efficient method to synthesize three new asymmetric trimethine cyanine dyes containing only one carboxylic acid group for bioconjugation. Two of them have better protein labeling performance than other conventional cyanine dyes due to their particular structure design.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, 158 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116012, PR China.
authors.forename: Fengling
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaoqiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qiao
authors.forename: Bingshuai
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shiguo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Jiangli
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Lihua
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiaojun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Peng
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002232:Carbocyanines / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D002417:Cattle; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine / Q000737:chemistry; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D002232:Carbocyanines; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; C089187:cyanine dye 3; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine