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SORTing out cellular proteomes in vivo

Incorporation of a new unnatural amino acid during protein synthesis enables proteomic profiling of specific cell types in whole animals.

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Figure 1: SORT-M technology for labeling the proteome of specific cells in a whole animal.

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Peng, T., Hang, H. SORTing out cellular proteomes in vivo. Nat Biotechnol 32, 445–446 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2898

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