Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Aptamer-based optical manipulation of protein subcellular localization in cells

  • Sitao Xie,
  • Yulin Du,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Zhimin Wang,
  • Dailiang Zhang,
  • Lei He,
  • Liping Qiu,
  • Jianhui Jiang,
  • Weihong Tan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15113-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Optogenetic manipulation of protein localisation in cells involves the creation of fusions that can influence activity. Here the authors develop a near-infrared light-responsive aptamer-based system to regulate the nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling of NF-κB subunit RelA.