View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Chemistry & Biology Article Chemical Proteomics with Sulfonyl Fluoride Probes Reveals Selective Labeling of Functional Tyrosines in Glutathione Transferases Christian Gu,1 D. Alexander Shannon,5 Tom Colby,2 Zheming Wang,1 Mohammed Shabab,6 Selva Kumari,1 Joji Grace Villamor,1 Christopher J. McLaughlin,5 Eranthie Weerapana,3,5 Markus Kaiser,4 Benjamin F. Cravatt,3 and Renier A.L. van der Hoorn1,* 1The Plant Chemetics Laboratory 2Proteomics Service Center Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linne Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany 3Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA 4Zentrum fu¨ r Medizinische Biotechnologie, Fakulta¨ tfu¨ r Biologie, Universita¨ t Duisburg-Essen, Universita¨ tsstr. 2, 45117 Essen, Germany 5Department of Chemistry, Boston College, 2609 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02466, USA 6Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Kno¨ ll-strasse 8, 07745 Jena, Germany *Correspondence:
[email protected] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2013.01.016 SUMMARY for posttranslational modifications such as acylation, glycosyla- tion, and prenylation (Heal and Tate, 2010). Chemical probes have great potential for identifying Recently, chemical proteomics has been expanded further by functional residues in proteins in crude proteomes. including reactivity probes, which carry only a reactive group Here we studied labeling sites of chemical probes (e.g., Weerapana et al., 2008). When used properly, reactivity based on sulfonyl fluorides (SFs) on plant and animal probes globally identify hyperreactive amino acids in proteomes.