Mann M.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2006 Dec;7(12):952-8.
Researchers in many biological areas now routinely characterize proteins by mass spectrometry. Among the many formats for quantitative proteomics, stable-isotope labelling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) has emerged as a simple and powerful one. SILAC removes false positives in protein-interaction studies, reveals large-scale kinetics of proteomes and - as a quantitative phosphoproteomics technology - directly uncovers important points in the signalling pathways that control cellular decisions.
http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v7/n12/full/nrm2067.htmlDepartment of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany.