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Functional and quantitative proteomics using SILAC

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology volume 7, pages 952–958 (2006)Cite this article

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Researchers in many biological areas now routinely characterize proteins by mass spectrometry. Among the many formats for quantitative proteomics, stable-isotope labelling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) has emerged as a simple and powerful one. SILAC removes false positives in protein-interaction studies, reveals large-scale kinetics of proteomes and — as a quantitative phosphoproteomics technology — directly uncovers important points in the signalling pathways that control cellular decisions.

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Figure 1: Interaction of a bacterial phosphoprotein with a human host protein.
Figure 2: Systems biology of stem-cell differentiation.
Figure 3: Nucleolar proteome dynamics.

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I thank S.-E. Ong, L. Foster, B. Blagoev, J. Andersen and members of the Department for Proteomics and Signal Transduction for critical discussion of this manuscript. This work was supported by the Danish National Research Foundation and the Max-Planck Society.

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