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A photoaffinity reaction has been used to photo-cross-link small molecules on agarose beads to identify and purify the binding proteins (see picture; PMF: peptide mass fingerprinting). This technology is considered potentially useful for the confirmation of specificity between a small molecule and a protein of interest in the field of reverse chemical genetics.
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Kanoh et al. (2005) studied this question.
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