Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ
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Blog Post
...This application of AHA labeling is known as fluorescence noncanonical amino acid tagging (FUNCAT, Dieterich...experiments.
Visualizing newly synthesized proteins with FUNCAT
Professor Schuman’s technique applies metabolic...the whole de novo synthesized proteome. However, FUNCAT alone cannot be used to determine the turnover ...specific protein. Professor Schuman’s lab showed that FUNCAT’s usefulness can be extended to determine the turnover...ligation assay (PLA).
The clever combination of FUNCAT and PLA
PLA was originally published by the Söderberg...DNA strands take part in rolling circle DNA amplification. The amplified DNA segment is labeled with fluorescent...fluorescent probes that enable visualization of the location of the protein-protein interaction.
To study protein...