thumb|Monoclonal antibody ibritumomab conjugated with [[tiuxetan]] Bioconjugation is a chemical strategy to form a stable covalent link between two molecules, at least one of which is a biomolecule. Methods to conjugate biomolecules are applied in various fields, including medicine, diagnostics, biocatalysis and materials. Synthetically modified biomolecules can have diverse functionalities, such as tracking cellular events, revealing enzyme function, determining protein biodistribution, imaging specific biomarkers, vaccination and delivering drugs to targeted cells.
thumb|Monoclonal antibody ibritumomab conjugated with [[tiuxetan]] Bioconjugation is a chemical strategy to form a stable covalent link between two molecules, at least one of which is a biomolecule. Methods to conjugate biomolecules are applied in various fields, including medicine, diagnostics, biocatalysis and materials. Synthetically modified biomolecules can have diverse functionalities, such as tracking cellular events, revealing enzyme function, determining protein biodistribution, imaging specific biomarkers, vaccination and delivering drugs to targeted cells.
Bioconjugation is a crucial strategy that links these modified biomolecules with different substrates. Besides applications in biomedical research, bioconjugation has recently also gained importance in nanotechnology such as bioconjugated quantum dots.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).