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SUBMITTER: Ngo JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3176724 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ngo John T JT Champion Julie A JA Mahdavi Alborz A Tanrikulu I Caglar IC Beatty Kimberly E KE Connor Rebecca E RE Yoo Tae Hyeon TH Dieterich Daniela C DC Schuman Erin M EM Tirrell David A DA
Nature chemical biology 20090809 10
Metabolic labeling of proteins with the methionine surrogate azidonorleucine can be targeted exclusively to specified cells through expression of a mutant methionyl-tRNA synthetase (MetRS). In complex cellular mixtures, proteins made in cells that express the mutant synthetase can be tagged with affinity reagents (for detection or enrichment) or fluorescent dyes (for imaging). Proteins made in cells that do not express the mutant synthetase are neither labeled nor detected. ...[more]