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Development of photolabile protecting groups and their application to the optochemical control of cell signaling
Anirban Bardhan1, Alexander Deiters1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States.
Abstract:
Many biological processes are naturally regulated with spatiotemporal control. In order to perturb and investigate them, optochemical tools have been developed that convey similar spatiotemporal precision. Pivotal to optochemical probes are photolabile protecting groups, so called caging groups, and recent developments have enabled new applications to cellular processes, including cell signaling. This review focuses on the advances made in the field of caging groups and their application in cell signaling through caged molecules such as neurotransmitters, lipids, secondary messengers, and proteins.
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