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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2012
Younghoon Kim, Champaign, IL (US);
Sung Hoon Kim, Champaign, IL (US);
Melikhan Tanyeri, Champaign, IL (US);
John A. Katzenellenbogen, Urbana, IL (US);
Charles M. Schroeder, Iii, Champaign, IL (US);
Younghoon Kim, Champaign, IL (US);
Sung Hoon Kim, Champaign, IL (US);
Melikhan Tanyeri, Champaign, IL (US);
John A. Katzenellenbogen, Urbana, IL (US);
Charles M. Schroeder, III, Champaign, IL (US);
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Abstract
The invention provides dendrimers, conjugates thereof, and methods of using dendrimer conjugates. In one embodiment, the invention provides novel polymeric dendrimers as a new class of fluorescent labels. The labels can include multiple fluorescent dye molecules conjugated to a single polymeric backbone or core, such as a dendrimer. The dendrimers can have regular or irregular branched polymeric network structures that allow for the chemical attachment of multiple dye molecules, multiple color dyes, and/or multiple functional groups, in a combinatorial fashion. The fluorescent dendritic nanoprobes (FDNs) thus provide a new class of fluorescent reporters for fluorescence microscopy and imaging.