Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins
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Blog Post
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March 19, 2019, 1:31 p.m.
...measured. Archon1 is bright, exhibits good localization, has high signal:noise ratio, high sensitivity, responds...blue light (445nm). The discovery and applications of protein partners that bind to only the light- or ...Every few months we highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids...colleagues turned to optogenetics. Through the use of light-sensitive protein domains, they have developed a...system to control CRISPR-Cas9 activity using blue light (Bubeck et al., 2018).
They accomplished this by...inhibits CRISPR activity. With the addition of blue light, the terminal helices of the LOV2 domain unfold,... variant of AcrIIA4.” CASANOVA responds to blue light quickly. Within minutes of inactivating the CASANOVA...