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Measuring kinase activity: finding needles in a haystack

New fluorescent peptide–based reporters provide a means for following kinase activity in crude cell extracts.

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Figure 1: Fluorescent reporters for protein kinases.

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Turk, B. Measuring kinase activity: finding needles in a haystack. Nat Methods 2, 251–252 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0405-251

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