Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems
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... the split-luciferase system, intein-mediated splicing reconstitutes functional luciferase only when fusions...when separated (2), and that DBD and TAs from different systems could be combined effectively (3). In ...target gene, in this case a reporter gene (e.g. luciferase or GFP), regardless of whether it interacts with...sequence of the DBD. The DBD-POI fusion (commonly referred to as the “bait”, Figure 2b) cannot activate reporter...interact, this will bring the POI-TA fusion (commonly referred to as the “prey”) in close enough proximity to... fusions of the two halves of the luciferase protein interact and enable intein splicing (5).
Screening...a more vigourous screen is to use a number of different bait and prey vectors. This has been shown to ...