Keywords: Metalloenzymes / Activity-based profiling / Photoaffinity labeling / Diazirine / Alkylation / Diastereoselectivity Metalloproteases (ADAMs, MMPs) are multidomain proteins that play key roles in extracellular matrix remodelling and degradation, in cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions and in the proteolytic liberation of membrane-anchored proforms of cytokines and growth factors, the so-called ectodomain shedding. In this work we describe the development of photoactivatable activity-based probes with which active