Nature Communications (May 2019)

A modular degron library for synthetic circuits in mammalian cells

  • Hélène Chassin,
  • Marius Müller,
  • Marcel Tigges,
  • Leo Scheller,
  • Moritz Lang,
  • Martin Fussenegger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09974-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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One method of controlling protein degradation is through the use of degrons. Here the authors present a toolbox of characterised degrons as a library to fine-tune biological gene-expression systems. Its application is demonstrated by a set of tunable synthetic pulse generators in mammalian cells.