Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores
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...irreversibly with a small substrate ligand motif attached to a fluorophore (Figure 1b).
Engineered ligases...phosphopantetheinyltransferase) – These enzymes catalyze the covalent attachment of a fluorophore ligand to a peptide tag (Figure...bioorthogonal chemical reactions (i.e., click chemistry) to attach a fluorophore at the specific site of incorporation... the speed and selectivity of the fluorophore attachment, the brightness of the resulting conjugate, and...