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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2002
Applicants:
Barbara Imperiali, Cambridge, MA (US);
Karen N. Allen, Boston, MA (US);
Katherine J. Franz, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Barbara Imperiali, Cambridge, MA (US);
Karen N. Allen, Boston, MA (US);
Katherine J. Franz, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignees:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Trustees of Boston University, Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C12Q 1/37 (2006.01); G01N 33/53 (2006.01); A01K 38/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides lanthanide binding tags (LBT) that selectively complex trivalent lanthanide (Ln) ions and afford stable complexes with desirable physical properties, including at least one of fluorescence and anomalous x-ray scattering.