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SUBMITTER: Liu DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3381951 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20120105 2
The inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder cycloaddition between trans-cyclooctenes and tetrazines is biocompatible and exceptionally fast. We utilized this chemistry for site-specific fluorescence labeling of proteins on the cell surface and inside living mammalian cells by a two-step protocol. Escherichia coli lipoic acid ligase site-specifically ligates a trans-cyclooctene derivative onto a protein of interest in the first step, followed by chemoselective derivatization with a tetrazine-fluoroph ...[more]