R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...find R body mutants that couldn’t extend at a normal pH and later realized that these mutations clustered...demonstrated that R bodies can be “tuned” with mutagenesis to extend at different pH values. Using a screen...see figure to the right), we identified R-body mutants that extend at both lower and higher pH. We initially...in a particular region of the R-body. Further mutatgenesis of this region produced R-bodies that could ...Plasmids expressing expressing both wild type and mutant R bodies can be found at Addgene here.
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