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Making brain proteomics true to type

Two independent but related strategies use unnatural amino acid incorporation to enable in vivo cell-type-specific proteomics in the mouse brain.

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Figure 1: Schematic overview of two novel approaches for cell-type-specific protein labeling in neurons of the mouse brain.

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Wilson, R., Nairn, A. Making brain proteomics true to type. Nat Biotechnol 36, 149–150 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4077

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