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Also on the front cover of ChemComm

Ed Tate's article can be seen here 

and  Front Cover of ChemComm

Bioorthogonal chemical tagging of protein cholesterylation in living cells

William P. Heal, Biljana Jovanovic, Sara Bessin, Megan H. Wright, Anthony I. Magee and Edward W. Tate
Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 4081-4083

For the first time, post-translational protein cholesterylation has been detected by bioorthogonal chemical tagging with an azide in live cells, allowing rapid fluorescence and affinity labelling, and multiplexed bioorthogonal detection of cholesterylation and palmitoylation.                



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