Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Phenotypes on demand via switchable target protein degradation in multicellular organisms

  • Frederik Faden,
  • Thomas Ramezani,
  • Stefan Mielke,
  • Isabel Almudi,
  • Knud Nairz,
  • Marceli S. Froehlich,
  • Jörg Höckendorff,
  • Wolfgang Brandt,
  • Wolfgang Hoehenwarter,
  • R. Jürgen Dohmen,
  • Arp Schnittger,
  • Nico Dissmeyer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12202
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Switching target protein accumulation and activity by portable conditional degrons is potentially useful for both basic research and bioengineering. Here the authors present a versatile system to tune protein levels in live animals and plants using a temperature-sensitive N-end rule degradation signal.