Some forms of chemical biology attempt to answer biological questions
by directly probing living systems at the chemical level. In contrast
to research using biochemistry, genetics, or molecular biology, where mutagenesis can provide a new version of the organism or cell of interest, chemical biology studies probe systems in vitro and in vivo with small molecules that have been designed for a specific purpose or identified on the basis of biochemical or cell-based screening.
Chemical biology is one of many interfacial sciences that are characteristic of a general trend away from older, reductionist fields toward those whose goals are to achieve a description of scientific holism. In this sense, it is related to other fields such as proteomics. Chemical biology has scientific, historical and philosophical roots in medicinal chemistry, supramolecular chemistry (particularly host-guest chemistry), bioorganic chemistry, pharmacology, genetics, biochemistry, and metabolic engineering.
Proteomics investigates the proteome,
the set of expressed proteins at a given time under defined conditions.
As a discipline, proteomics has moved past rapid protein identification
and has developed into a biological assay for quantitative analysis of
complex protein samples by comparing protein changes in differently
perturbed systems.Current goals in proteomics include determining protein sequences, abundance and any post-translational modifications. Also of interest are protein–protein interactions,
cellular distribution of proteins and understanding protein activity.
Another important aspect of proteomics is the advancement of technology
to achieve these goals.
Protein levels, modifications, locations, and interactions are
complex and dynamic properties. With this complexity in mind,
experiments need to be carefully designed to answer specific questions
especially in the face of the massive amounts of data that are generated
by these analyses. The most valuable information comes from proteins
that are expressed differently in a system being studied. These proteins
can be compared relative to each other using quantitative proteomics,
which allows a protein to be labeled with a mass tag. Proteomic
technologies must be sensitive and robust, it is for these reasons, the mass spectrometer
has been the workhorse of protein analysis. The high precision of mass
spectrometry can distinguish between closely related species and species
of interest can be isolated and fragmented within the instrument. Its
applications to protein analysis was only possible in the late 1980s
with the development of protein and peptide ionization with minimal
fragmentation. These breakthroughs were ESI and MALDI. Mass spectrometry technologies are modular and can be chosen or optimized to the system of interest.
Chemical biologists are poised to impact proteomics through the development of techniques, probes and assays with synthetic chemistry
for the characterization of protein samples of high complexity. These
approaches include the development of enrichment strategies, chemical
affinity tags and probes.
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