A New Optogenetic Tool Based on AraC Controls Gene Expression with Blue Light
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...lab and Mustafa Khammash's lab at ETH Zürich. “Instead of a graphical abstract, it’s a musical abstract...turns expression on and off with blue light.
Inspired by @UriAlonWeizmann, here my song about our paper...applications.
Figure 1: With blue light, the VVD domains of the BLADE dimerize and activates transcription...This construct, built from the pBAD33 backbone, contains BLADE, the PBAD promoter, and a mCherry reporter...your gene of interest.
pBLADEONLY: This plasmid contains only BLADE and is based on the pTRC99a plasmid...transformed with pBLADE expressing superfolder GFP instead of mCherry under the PBAD promoter. They created...Engineering AraC to make it responsive to light instead of arabinose. Nat Chem Biol. https://doi.org/10.1038...