What are the best methylation mimetic residues for arginine methylation?

27 September 2022 0 8K Report

I am exploring the role of Arginine methylation in the protein of my interest. I wanted to know which amino acid I could replace with arginine to mimic methylated arginine and non-methylated arginine.

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