Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools
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...targeted via RNAi.
Recently the Vellai lab has created an improved RNAi vector that leads to significantly...non-specific nucleotides into the dsRNA leading to increased RNAi efficiency.
Find the T444T plasmid here... used yeast display-based directed evolution to create APEX2. They have now applied the same directed ...the biotin ligase from which BioID was derived, creating a pair of enzymes that overcome both the speed...BioID, which only functions optimally at 37℃. The increased efficiency of TurboID and miniTurbo makes PL a...include protein stability, small molecule binding screens, peptide arrays, and phage display selections.
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