Photocontrol of tyrosine phosphorylation in mammalian cells via genetic encoding of photocaged tyrosine.

J Am Chem Soc

Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.

Published: July 2012

We report the first site-specific genetic encoding of photocaged tyrosine into proteins in mammalian cells. By photocaging Tyr701 of STAT1 we demonstrate that it is possible to photocontrol tyrosine phosphorylation and signal transduction in mammalian cells.

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