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ArticleNature methods2018

StaPLs: versatile genetically encoded modules for engineering drug-inducible proteins.

Conor L Jacobs, Ryan K Badiee, Michael Z Lin

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Article in Nature methods, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Conor L JacobsGraduate Program in Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Ryan K BadieeDepartment of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Michael Z LinDepartment of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. mzlin@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0492-1961
Stanford Medicine · USStanford University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

TRAINING & OUTREACH COREP50GM107615 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FERRELL, JAMES E. · 2013 to 2017
$10.9M
A Molecular Tag for Drug-Regulated Synthesis of Specific ProteinsR01GM098734 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LIN, MICHAEL Z. · 2011 to 2014
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM107615NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM098734
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Robust approaches for chemogenetic control of protein function would have many biological applications. We developed stabilizable polypeptide linkages (StaPLs) based on hepatitis C virus protease. StaPLs undergo autoproteolysis to cleave proteins by default, whereas protease inhibitors prevent cleavage and preserve protein function. We created StaPLs responsive to different clinically approved drugs to bidirectionally control transcription with zinc-finger-based effectors, and used StaPLs to create single-chain, drug-stabilizable variants of CRISPR-Cas9 and caspase-9.

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Protein EngineeringCRISPR-Cas SystemsDEAD-box RNA HelicasesDimerizationGene Expression RegulationGene TargetingHEK293 CellsHeLa CellsHumansNucleoside-TriphosphatasePlasmidsProtein FoldingSerine EndopeptidasesViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral ProteasesZinc FingersDEAD-box RNA HelicasesNS3 protein, hepatitis C virusNucleoside-TriphosphataseSerine EndopeptidasesViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral Proteases

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PMID29967496
PMCPMC6456726
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