Selective incorporation of nitrile-based infrared probes into proteins via cysteine alkylation

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 10354-10356

  Jo, Hyunil ^a   Culik, Robert M ^a   Korendovych, Ivan V ^a   Degrado, William F ^a   Gai, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC NITRILES; ARYLATION REACTIONS; INFRARED PROBES; SITE-SPECIFIC; STRETCHING VIBRATIONS;

ALKYLATION; AMINO ACIDS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CYANIDES; PROBES; STRETCHING;

PROTEINS;

CYSTEINE; NITRILE; SYNTHETASE; THIOL; TRANSFER RNA;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; ARYLATION; HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED RADIATION; MOLECULAR PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SYNTHESIS;

ALKYLATION; CALMODULIN; CYSTEINE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; NITRILES; PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; VIBRATION;

EID: 78650156868     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi101711a     Document Type: Article

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