...the truncated Phytochrome B (PhyBΔ) and the active protein binding domain of Phytochrome B interacting...splitting Cre and fusing each half with PhyB or PIF6, phytochrome-like fusion proteins from the plant Arabidopsis...respectively. The cofactor analog, phycocyanobilin (PCB), is required for PhyBΔ to be functional. Exposure to...systems in their own research.
Cyanobacteria, a phylum of photosynthetic bacteria, has increasingly been...CyanoGate kit at Addgene.
Vasudevan et al., Plant Physiol 2018. PubMed PMID: 30819783.
Light up CreLite:...red light (650 nm) and its prosthetic group PCB, PhyB and PIF6 dimerize, bringing each terminus of Cre... to red light induces PhyBΔ and PIF6APB binding, bringing the two halves of Cre together. Image from Eisenhoffer...