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Painting proteins blue: β-(1-azulenyl)-l-alanine as a probe for studying protein-protein interactions
Moroz, Yurii S.,Binder, Wolfgang,Nygren, Patrik,Caputo, Gregory A.,Korendovych, Ivan V.
, p. 490 - 492 (2013/02/25)
We demonstrated that β-(1-azulenyl)-l-alanine, a fluorescent pseudoisosteric analog of tryptophan, exhibits weak environmental dependence and thus allows for using weak intrinsic quenchers, such as methionines, to monitor protein-protein interactions while not perturbing them.
