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SUBMITTER: Toettcher JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3184382 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Toettcher Jared E JE Gong Delquin D Lim Wendell A WA Weiner Orion D OD
Nature methods 20110911 10
The ability to apply precise inputs to signaling species in live cells would be transformative for interrogating and understanding complex cell-signaling systems. Here we report an 'optogenetic' method for applying custom signaling inputs using feedback control of a light-gated protein-protein interaction. We applied this strategy to perturb protein localization and phosphoinositide 3-kinase activity, generating time-varying signals and clamping signals to buffer against cell-to-cell variability ...[more]