Rapid and orthogonal logic gating with a gibberellin-induced dimerization system

Takafumi Miyamoto, Robert DeRose, Allison Suarez, Tasuku Ueno, Melinda Chen, Tai Ping Sun, Michael J. Wolfgang, Chandrani Mukherjee, David J. Meyers, Takanari Inoue

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Abstract

Using a newly synthesized gibberellin analog containing an acetoxymethyl group (GA3-AM) and its binding proteins, we developed an efficient chemically inducible dimerization (CID) system that is completely orthogonal to existing rapamycin-mediated protein dimerization. Combining the two systems should allow applications that have been difficult or impossible with only one CID system. By using both chemical inputs (rapamycin and GA3-AM), we designed and synthesized Boolean logic gates in living mammalian cells. These gates produced output signals such as fluorescence and membrane ruffling on a timescale of seconds, substantially faster than earlier intracellular logic gates. The use of two orthogonal dimerization systems in the same cell also allows for finer modulation of protein perturbations than is possible with a single dimerizer.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)465-470
Number of pages6
JournalNature chemical biology
Volume8
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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