SGD Paper 
Morgan SA and Woolley GA (2010) A photoswitchable DNA-binding protein based on a truncated GCN4-photoactive yellow protein chimera. Photochem Photobiol Sci 9(10):1320-6
Abstract: Photo-controlled DNA-binding proteins promise to be useful tools for probing complex spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression in living organisms. Here we report a novel photoswitchable DNA-binding protein, GCN4(S)Delta25PYP, based on a truncated GCN4-photoactive yellow protein chimera. In contrast to previously reported designed photoswitchable proteins where DNA binding affinity is enhanced upon irradiation, GCN4(S)Delta25PYP dissociates from DNA when irradiated with blue light. In addition, the rate of thermal relaxation to the ground state, part of the PYP photocycle, is enhanced by DNA binding whereas in previous reported constructs it is slowed. The origins of this reversed photoactivity are analyzed in structural terms.
| Status: Published | Type: Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | PubMed ID: 20835493 |
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