MI-alkyne is a Michael acceptor probe th at can be used to lable cysteines. A method was developed using cysteine-reactive compounds including this one to allow for unbiased analysis of proteomic data in quantitave applications (Zanon et al. 2021). The method uses light or heavy labeling with the isotopically labelled desthiobiotin azide (isoDTB) tag for mass spectrometry analysis (Zanon et al. 2020). Analysis then uses the isotopic tandem orthogonal proteolysis activity-based protein profiling (isoTOP-ABPP) workflow (Weerapana et al. 2010, Backus et al. 2016).
