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ArticleChemical science2025

Reprogramming chemically induced dimerization systems with genetically encoded nanobodies.

Tianlu Wang, Tatsuki Nonomura, Mingguang Cui, Tien-Hung Lan, Pauline X Cai, Lian He, Yubin Zhou

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Article in Chemical science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors.

Tianlu WangCentre for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University Houston TX 77030 USA lhetamu@gmail.com yubinzhou@tamu.edu.
Tatsuki NonomuraCentre for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University Houston TX 77030 USA lhetamu@gmail.com yubinzhou@tamu.edu.
Mingguang CuiCentre for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University Houston TX 77030 USA lhetamu@gmail.com yubinzhou@tamu.edu.
Tien-Hung LanCentre for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University Houston TX 77030 USA lhetamu@gmail.com yubinzhou@tamu.edu.
Pauline X CaiCentre for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University Houston TX 77030 USA lhetamu@gmail.com yubinzhou@tamu.edu.
Lian HeCentre for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University Houston TX 77030 USA lhetamu@gmail.com yubinzhou@tamu.edu.
Yubin ZhouCentre for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University Houston TX 77030 USA lhetamu@gmail.com yubinzhou@tamu.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7962-0517

Funding

Engineering Smart Antibody-like Protein Scaffolds with precision switchesR01GM144986 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR · PI ZHOU, YUBIN · 2022 to 2025
$1.3M
Synthetic biology toolkit for precise tuning of T cell activityR21AI174606 · NIAID · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR · PI ZHOU, YUBIN · 2023 to 2024
$417k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI174606NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM144986
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemically induced proximity (CIP) systems harness small molecules to control protein-protein interactions, thereby enabling remote control over physiological processes and advancing the development of smart and personalized therapies. While substantial efforts have focused on developing new chemical inducers for tailored CIP applications, repurposing established systems to confer novel functions remains a highly cost-effective and efficient strategy. In this study, we employed genetically encoded nanobodies to overcome key bottlenecks of two widely used CIP systems in specific biological contexts. By incorporating the bivalent COSMO module and UniRapR into an anti-mCherry nanobody, we reprogrammed the homodimeric COSMO system into a caffeine-inducible heterodimerization system and transformed the classic rapamycin-dependent ON switch into an OFF switch, thereby conferring new functionality of the existing chemogenetic toolkit and expanding the repertoire of CIP technologies.

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PMCPMC12550865

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