New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 28, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
... unnatural head groups for applications like fluorescent labeling via click chemistry.
Figure 4: SuperPLD...adapted from Meiring et al., 2022, under CC-BY 4.0 license.
A naturally occurring microtubule-severing protein...adapted from Mahlandt et al., 2023, under CC-BY 4.0 license.
Mahlandt et al. used these Opto-RhoGEFs to study... binding of the plasma membrane. In previous publications, they described tools to control formation of...adapted from Aljiboury et al., 2023, under CC-BY 4.0 license.
Building off their earlier work on Rab11, the... et al. 2022, bioRxiv, under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Just make sure you don’t overdo it! The moderately-enhanced...constructs are great for in vitro biocatalytic applications where toxicity doesn’t matter. Plus, for folks...