Product Description: DiAzKs (H-L-Photo-lysine) is a diazirine-containing lysine amino acid and is a photo-cross-linker. DiAzKs can site-selective incorporated into proteins and is used to crosslink protein-protein interactions in vitro and in living cells. DiAzKs acts as a UV light-activated photo-crosslinking probe[1][2][3].
Formula: C11H20N4O4
References: [1]Ai HW, et al. Probing protein-protein interactions with a genetically encoded photo-crosslinking amino acid. Chembiochem. 2011 Aug 16;12(12):1854-7./[2]Chatterjee A, et al. Efficient viral delivery system for unnatural amino acid mutagenesis in mammalian cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jul 16;110(29):11803-8./[3]Yang T, et al. Photo-lysine captures proteins that bind lysine post-translational modifications. Nat Chem Biol. 2016 Feb;12(2):70-2.