Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools
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CRISPR and RNAi have helped researchers alter DNA sequence...Segment
Jerry Crabtree’s lab has developed a new CRISPR/Cas9-based system to study epigenetic modulation...customizable protein degradation. Enter TRIM-Away - an antibody-based system developed by the James and Schuh ...protein variants when used with a variant-specific antibody.
TRIM21, an E3 ubiquitin ligase, is the basis ...recruits ubiquitin and the proteasome to destroy antibody-bound pathogens. Clift et al. found that addition...addition of exogenous TRIM21 protein along with an antibody targeting the protein of interest led to rapid...co-microinjection of TRIM21 protein and the target antibody works well. In larger cell populations, you can...