Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP
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Blog Post
Published
Nov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
...GBPs/GFP. The new system, CRE-DOG (Cre Dependent On GFP), is activated by GFP and derivatives GFP and ...to bind GFP.
The idea of using GFP as a scaffold suddenly seemed very realistic. Envisioning GFP as a substrate...presence of GFP. These systems, known as T-DDOG and Cre-DOG, respectively, repurpose popular GFP reporter...lines expressing GFP in specific cell types to do more than just label cells. If GFP could be co-opted...selectively manipulate only GFP-labeled cells.
Once Tang and Cepko found a description of GFP-binding nanobodies...tested pairs of their GFP-binding proteins (GBPs) to find those that could co-occupy GFP. Once they’d found...culture system. In cells cotransfected with GFP and the GBPs, GFP linked the two GBPs together to create a...