Mass reporter group

Incorporation of fluorine into a biological substrate opens a spectral window for viewmg biomolecular structure and dynamics in solution With mmimal background mletference, fluonne NMR can provide clear spectral information for fluorme conlainmg macromolecules, in contrast to an indecipherable mass of signals from proton or carbon NMR Whether the fluonnated unit is termed a probe, tag, marker, or reporter group, its function is the same to act as a beacon of spectral information... 

Figure 28.5 This PIR compound contains NHS esters at both ends to capture interacting proteins through amide bond formation. It also contains MS cleavable bonds that release a central reporter group, which can be used to identify crosslinked peptides by mass spec.

The C5 position of dU has been used to attach a variety of labels or reporter groups, in particular fluorophores ° (see section 3.5). The pyrene-modified analogue (39) has been used to detect RNA bulge conformations in the HIV-TAR RNA sequence where the fluorescence is greatly enhanced,and as a donor for the red emitter nile red (40) when the two dyes are adjacent in duplex DNA the result is white light that is emitted upon excitation of (39). A zinc-porphyrin complex has been added to C5 of dU for use in electron transfer. Norbornene has been attached via an alkyne linker for post-synthetic modification with nitrile oxides in a copper-free Click reaction, " and various dienes have been attached for Diels-Alder tagging of DNA. The photoaffinity tag (41) has been incorporated into DNA adjacent to a damaged DNA base (8-oxo-dG or thymine dimer) such that when exposed to repair systems, the repair enzyme is trapped by the diazirine for mass spectroscopic characterisation. ... 

The history of the discoveries and developments of the palladium-catalyzed crosscoupling reactions has been documented in many reviews, book chapters, and monographs. Palladium-catalyzed processes can be traced back to Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of organomagnesium derivatives reported in 1972 by Tamao, Sumitani, and Kumada as well as by Corriu and Masse. Some groups led by Murahashi et Fauvarque, and Sekiya and Ishikawa independently... 

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