Cyanine3 tetrazine is a fluorescent dye with tetrazine moiety for a conjugation reaction called TCO (trans-cyclooctene) ligation. Actually, tetrazines react not only with trans-cyclooctenes, but also with cyclopropenes and strained non-benzo-fused cycloalkynes.
Cyanine3 is a moderately hydrophobic dye, enabling labeling in non-aqueous environment as well as in aqueous media containing some organic co-solvent like acetonitrile or DMSO. For reactions in purely aqueous media, a sulfonated version of this reagent is available.
 
Lumiprobe 全新推出生命科學研究中最受歡迎的花青染料 —— Cyanine 系列。這些染料為 1970 年代廣泛應用於血管造影的經典花青染料吲哚菁綠（ICG）之改良版，具備更低的非特異性生物分子結合特性，並因其高消光係數及優異量子產率，展現出明亮且穩定的螢光表現。隨著 CMU 專利到期，這些高效能分子現已以更親民的價格，廣泛應用於各類生命科學領域。Cyanine 染料可用於標記多種目標，包括可溶性蛋白質、抗體、DNA 與寡核苷酸、胜肽（Peptides）及各類小分子。