Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

De novo design of a reversible phosphorylation-dependent switch for membrane targeting

  • Leon Harrington,
  • Jordan M. Fletcher,
  • Tamara Heermann,
  • Derek N. Woolfson,
  • Petra Schwille

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21622-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The ability to dynamically control protein-protein interactions and localization of proteins is critical in synthetic biological systems. Here the authors develop a peptide-based molecular switch that regulates dimer formation and lipid membrane targeting via reversible phosphorylation.