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Proteomic Profiling

Jan 24, 2007

In a paper from this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ($), Scripps Research Institute scientists Cleo Salisbury and Benjamin Cravatt demonstrate the use of chemical probes to study histone deacetylases "in native proteomes and live cells," according to the abstract. The method should help profile the binding proteins for these complexes.

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