PUBLICATION

General Method for Regulating Protein Stability with Light

Authors
Bonger, K.M., Rakhit, R., Payumo, A.Y., Chen, J.K., and Wandless, T.J.
ID
ZDB-PUB-131202-9
Date
2014
Source
ACS Chemical Biology   9(1): 111-5 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Chen, James K.
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Avena/chemistry
  • Avena/genetics*
  • Light
  • Luminescent Proteins/chemistry*
  • Luminescent Proteins/genetics*
  • Mice
  • NIH 3T3 Cells
  • Photolysis*
  • Phototropins/chemistry*
  • Phototropins/genetics*
  • Protein Engineering
  • Protein Stability*
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish
PubMed
24180414 Full text @ ACS Chem. Biol.
Abstract

Post-translational regulation of protein abundance in cells is a powerful tool for studying protein function. Here, we describe a novel genetically encoded protein domain that is degraded upon exposure to nontoxic blue light. We demonstrate that fusion proteins containing this domain are rapidly degraded in cultured cells and in zebrafish upon illumination.

Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping