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ArticleGenetics2021

CeLINC, a fluorescence-based protein-protein interaction assay in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Jason R Kroll, Sanne Remmelzwaal, Mike Boxem

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Article in Genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. LGL-1 and the RhoGAP protein PAC-1 redundantly polarize thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. Morphologically defined substages of tail morphogenesis in C. elegans males.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jason R KrollDivision of Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Institute of Biodynamics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8229-7412
Sanne RemmelzwaalDivision of Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Institute of Biodynamics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Mike BoxemDivision of Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Institute of Biodynamics and Biocomplexity, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Utrecht University · NL

Funding

Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
$7.5M
NIH HHS P40 OD010440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interactions among proteins are fundamental for life and determining whether two particular proteins physically interact can be essential for fully understanding a protein's function. We present Caenorhabditis elegans light-induced coclustering (CeLINC), an optical binary protein-protein interaction assay to determine whether two proteins interact in vivo. Based on CRY2/CIB1 light-dependent oligomerization, CeLINC can rapidly and unambiguously identify protein-protein interactions between pairs of fluorescently tagged proteins. A fluorescently tagged bait protein is captured using a nanobody directed against the fluorescent protein (GFP or mCherry) and brought into artificial clusters within the cell. Colocalization of a fluorescently tagged prey protein in the cluster indicates a protein interaction. We tested the system with an array of positive and negative reference protein pairs. Assay performance was extremely robust with no false positives detected in the negative reference pairs. We then used the system to test for interactions among apical and basolateral polarity regulators. We confirmed interactions seen between PAR-6, PKC-3, and PAR-3, but observed no physical interactions among the basolateral Scribble module proteins LET-413, DLG-1, and LGL-1. We have generated a plasmid toolkit that allows use of custom promoters or CRY2 variants to promote flexibility of the system. The CeLINC assay is a powerful and rapid technique that can be widely applied in C. elegans due to the universal plasmids that can be used with existing fluorescently tagged strains without need for additional cloning or genetic modification of the genome.

Indexed as

Protein Interaction MapsAnimalsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCryptochromesFluorescent Antibody TechniqueLightProtein BindingBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCryptochromesapical proteinsbasolateral proteinsbinary interaction assayC. eleganscell polarityCRY2optogeneticsprotein–protein interaction

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PMID34849800
PMCPMC8664570
OpenAlexW3203887863

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