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RE: Targeted Protein Labeling Through Amber Codon Suppression Technology
I have heard of staining (don't know if I'm using the right word) of a particular protein to enable for tracking. This new technique looks innovative. Kudos to people working on the field. I wish them good luck into unravelling more medical mystery and hopefully, one day, arrive on the cure for cancer.
Staining isn't the right word, tracking is always done by some form of labeling. Depending on what you are tracking and where it is usually with a fluorescent molecule as I described above. If you are looking at cellular protein flux (ie production and breakdown of protein/or a substrate over time) then sometimes isotopic labeling can be employed (giving a cell an amino acid enriched with a heavy version of one of it's atoms like carbon 13 or nitrogen 15, or a heavy substrate molecule similarly labeled) and following things by mass spectrometry.
I have a feeling I may be wrong there, but thank you for clearing that up.
You weren't wrong, just not the term for what you were thinking of. :) Perhaps, slightly less right is the better way to think about it!
A little less right sounds much better :)
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