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NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 1, Issue 4, Pages 203-209Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio728
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- NCRR NIH HHS [U54 RR020843] Funding Source: Medline
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Protease activity is tightly regulated in both normal and disease conditions. However, it is often difficult to monitor the dynamic nature of this regulation in the context of a live cell or whole organism. To address this limitation, we developed a series of quenched activity-based probes (qABPs) that become fluorescent upon activity-dependent covalent modification of a protease target. These reagents freely penetrate cells and allow direct imaging of protease activity in living cells. Targeted proteases are directly identified and monitored biochemically by virtue of the resulting covalent tag, thereby allowing unambiguous assignment of protease activities observed in imaging studies. We report here the design and synthesis of a selective, cell-permeable qABP for the study of papain-family cysteine proteases. This probe is used to monitor real-time protease activity in live human cells with fluorescence microscopy techniques as well as standard biochemical methods.
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