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Review
. 2005 Feb;16(1):35-40.
doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2004.12.003.

Site-specific labeling of proteins with small molecules in live cells

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Site-specific labeling of proteins with small molecules in live cells

Irwin Chen et al. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2005 Feb.

Abstract

The principal bottleneck for the utilization of small-molecule probes in live cells is the shortage of methodologies for targeting them with very high specificity to biological molecules or compartments of interest. Recently developed methods for labeling proteins with small-molecule probes in cells employ special protein or peptide handles that recruit small-molecule ligands, harness enzymes to catalyze small-molecule conjugation or hijack the cell's protein translation machinery.

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