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3,5-Difluoro-L-tyrosine is a functional, tyrosinase-resistant mimetic of tyrosine. 3,5-Difluoro-L-tyrosine can be used to analyze the substrate specificity of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs)[1].

[1] Bhaskar Gopishetty, et al. Synthesis of 3,5-difluorotyrosine-containing peptides: application in substrate profiling of protein tyrosine phosphatases. Org Lett. 2008 Oct 16;10(20):4605-8. DOI:10.1021/ol801868a