Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

A systematic approach to inserting split inteins for Boolean logic gate engineering and basal activity reduction

  • Trevor Y. H. Ho,
  • Alexander Shao,
  • Zeyu Lu,
  • Harri Savilahti,
  • Filippo Menolascina,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Neil Dalchau,
  • Baojun Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22404-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Split inteins are powerful tools for designing synthetic split proteins. Here the authors use a mini-Mu transposon screen to map split sites, enabling the development of protein-based logic gates and fine control of protein activity.