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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 9.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Chem Biol. 2011 May 1;3(2):65–79. doi: 10.1002/9780470559277.ch100225

Figure 1. Chemical tools for studying protein fatty acylation.

Figure 1

A. Chemical structures of protein myristoylation on N-terminal glycines, palmitoylation on cysteine residues, and prenylation on C-terminal CaaX motifs. B. Alkyne-chemical reporters used for studying protein myristoylation (alk-12), palmitoylation (alk-16), and prenylation (alk-FOH). C. Secondary detection reagents for visualization (azido-rhodamine) or affinity enrichment (azido-azo-biotin) of alkyne-chemical reporter-labeled proteins.