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POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS

Catch your breath

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a product of cellular respiration that can also serve as a post-translational modification (PTM) through covalent protein modification. A new chemoproteomic strategy enables the capture of functional CO2-dependent carboxylation on lysine residues of proteins.

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Fig. 1: Homocitrullination enables chemoproteomic identification of CO2-reactive lysines through competitive labeling.

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Grams, R.J., Hsu, KL. Catch your breath. Nat Chem Biol 18, 686–687 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-022-01063-x

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