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Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Fishing for Selectivity in a Sea of Functionality

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Sletten, Ellen M., Bertozzi, Carolyn R.·2009·Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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The study of biomolecules in their native environments is a challenging task because of the vast complexity of cellular systems. Technologies developed in the last few years for the selective modification of biological species in living systems have yielded new insights into cellular processes. Key to these new techniques are bioorthogonal chemical reactions, whose components must react rapidly and selectively with each other under physiological conditions in the presence of the plethora of functionality necessary to sustain life. Herein we describe the bioorthogonal chemical reactions developed to date and how they can be used to study biomolecules.

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Authors
Sletten, E. M., & Bertozzi, C. R.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Bertozzi, Carolyn R.
Venue
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2009-09
Volume
48
Issue
38
Pages
6974-6998
ISSN
  • 1433-7851 (ISSN-L)
  • 1521-3773
OpenAlex
W2151709132
Cited by
3,165
References
362
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FWCI
68.06
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R37GM058867)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Click Chemistry and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Biotin and Related Studies
Keywords
bioorthogonal chemistry, bioorthogonal reactions, biological systems, cellular processes
MeSH terms
Alkynes, Animals, Azides, Biochemical Phenomena, Biochemistry, Fluorescent Dyes, Humans, Indicators and Reagents, Molecular Sequence Data, Staining and Labeling, Molecular Structure, Cellular Structures, Green Fluorescent Proteins

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