I am planning to study global protein synthesis levels in presence and absence of certain chemical compounds. I know that the gold standard for this purpose is the S35-methionine pulse chase labeling. However, I am not so enthusiastic about working with radioactive chemicals when there are nonradioactive alternatives available these days. I've come across the Click-iT HPG/Alexa Fluor Azide and Click-iT AHA/Alexa Fluor alkyne assays from Thermofisher.

Are there any other fluorescence based assays available to determine global protein synthesis (quantitatively) preferably a nonradioactive way and something that I can simply measure in a cellplate reader? Thank you!

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