Engineering the smallest transcription factor: accelerated evolution of a 63-amino acid peptide dual activator-repressor
Engineering the smallest transcription factor: accelerated evolution of a 63-amino acid peptide dual activator-repressor
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设计最小的转录因子:63 个氨基酸肽双激活子-阻遏物的加速进化
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10.1101/725739
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2019
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Brödel A
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Brödel A
Transcription factors control gene expression in all life. This raises the question of what is the smallest protein that can support such activity. In nature, Cro from bacteriophage λ is the smallest known repressor (66 amino acids; a.a.) but activators are typically much larger (e.g. λ cI, 237 a.a.). Indeed, previous efforts to engineer a minimal activator from Cro resulted in no activityin vivo. In this study, we show that directed evolution results in a new Cro activator-repressor that functions as efficiently as λ cI,in vivo. To achieve this, we develop Phagemid-Assisted Continuous Evolution: PACEmid. We find that a peptide as small as 63-a.a. functions efficiently as an activator and/or repressor. To our knowledge, this is the smallest protein gene regulator reported to date, highlighting the capacity of transcription factors to evolve from very short peptide sequences.
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