Nature Communications (May 2018)

Coupling bimolecular PARylation biosensors with genetic screens to identify PARylation targets

  • Dragomir B. Krastev,
  • Stephen J. Pettitt,
  • James Campbell,
  • Feifei Song,
  • Barbara E. Tanos,
  • Stoyno S. Stoynov,
  • Alan Ashworth,
  • Christopher J. Lord

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04466-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Poly ADP-ribosylation (PARylation) is a highly dynamic post-translation protein modification, but most methods only detect stable PARylation events. Here the authors develop a split-GFP-based sensor for PARylation detection in live cells and use it to identify a new centrosomal PARylation target.