Achieving the promise and avoiding the peril of chemical probes using genetics.

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Chemical probes can be valuable tools for studying protein targets, but addressing concerns about a probe's cellular target or its specificity can be challenging. A reliable strategy is to use a mutation that does not alter a target's function but confers resistance (or sensitizes) to the inhibitor in both cellular and biochemical assays. However, challenges remain in finding such mutations. Here, we discuss...

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