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Affinity Labels/*metabolism
Alanine/analogs & derivatives/metabolism
Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases/genetics/*metabolism
Animals
Cell Line
Coculture Techniques
Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
Escherichia coli/genetics/metabolism
Macrophages, Alveolar/metabolism/microbiology
Methionine-tRNA Ligase/genetics/*metabolism
Mice
Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
Mutation
Norleucine/analogs & derivatives/metabolism
Protein Biosynthesis
Proteins/*metabolism
Abstract:
Metabolic labeling of proteins with the methionine surrogate azidonorleucine can be targeted exclusively to specified cells through expression of a mutant methionyl-tRNA synthetase (MetRS). In complex cellular mixtures, proteins made in cells that express the mutant synthetase can be tagged with affinity reagents (for detection or enrichment) or fluorescent dyes (for imaging). Proteins made in cells that do not express the mutant synthetase are neither labeled nor detected.