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Genetically encoded light-activated transcription for spatiotemporal control of gene expression and gene silencing in mammalian cells.


ABSTRACT: Photocaging provides a method to spatially and temporally control biological function and gene expression with high resolution. Proteins can be photochemically controlled through the site-specific installation of caging groups on amino acid side chains that are essential for protein function. The photocaging of a synthetic gene network using unnatural amino acid mutagenesis in mammalian cells was demonstrated with an engineered bacteriophage RNA polymerase. A caged T7 RNA polymerase was expressed in cells with an expanded genetic code and used in the photochemical activation of genes under control of an orthogonal T7 promoter, demonstrating tight spatial and temporal control. The synthetic gene expression system was validated with two reporter genes (luciferase and EGFP) and applied to the light-triggered transcription of short hairpin RNA constructs for the induction of RNA interference.

SUBMITTER: Hemphill J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4188981 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genetically encoded light-activated transcription for spatiotemporal control of gene expression and gene silencing in mammalian cells.

Hemphill James J   Chou Chungjung C   Chin Jason W JW   Deiters Alexander A  

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20130827 36


Photocaging provides a method to spatially and temporally control biological function and gene expression with high resolution. Proteins can be photochemically controlled through the site-specific installation of caging groups on amino acid side chains that are essential for protein function. The photocaging of a synthetic gene network using unnatural amino acid mutagenesis in mammalian cells was demonstrated with an engineered bacteriophage RNA polymerase. A caged T7 RNA polymerase was expresse  ...[more]

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