chemical proteomics
English
Noun
chemical proteomics (uncountable)
- A scientific discipline devoted to elucidating protein function in a native biological setting using small molecule chemical tools.
- 2016, Jennifer Viegas, “Profile of Benjamin Cravatt”, in PNAS, page 1109:
- The work of Cravatt and his colleagues on the endocannabinoid system led to interest in the then-nascent field of chemical proteomics, a multidisciplinary science that aims to develop and apply chemical tools to annotate the functions of proteins like FAAH within their native biological environment.
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