Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
...adding different ligands to the same sample to label sub-populations of your protein of interest. For example...range of useful molecules linked to that substrate. If the substrate was linked to, say, a chemical dye or...instead become trapped in a covalent bond with its substrate. Then, all it takes is a bit of chemistry magic... gets covalently linked to derivatives of its substrate O6-benzylguanine (BG) (Keppler et al., 2003). ...be labeled with fluorescent derivatives of its substrate trimpethoprim (TMP-tag) (Miller et al., 2005)...., or other uses of your protein, such as with substrate-linked PEG, biotin, or magnetic beads. In one ...