Endogenous Metabolite, inhibit, Inhibitor, N-Formyl-L-methionine, ForMetOH, For-Met-OH, For Met OH, fMet, EndogenousMetabolite
N-Formyl-L-methionine (fMet) serves as the specialized initiator amino acid in bacterial and mitochondrial protein synthesis, delivered by fMet-tRNA. This small molecule is essential for studying prokaryotic and organellar translation initiation mechanisms in both in vitro reconstituted systems and in vivo cellular research.