Nature Communications (May 2020)

Split Intein-Mediated Protein Ligation for detecting protein-protein interactions and their inhibition

  • Zhong Yao,
  • Farzaneh Aboualizadeh,
  • Jason Kroll,
  • Indira Akula,
  • Jamie Snider,
  • Anna Lyakisheva,
  • Priscilla Tang,
  • Max Kotlyar,
  • Igor Jurisica,
  • Mike Boxem,
  • Igor Stagljar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16299-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Protein-protein interactions are fundamental to the regulation of protein activity and cellular phyisology. Here the authors present Split Intein-Mediated Protein Ligation, which uses bait and prey proteins fused to intein fragments to generate single intact proteins upon interaction.