An inducible AraC that responds to blue light instead of arabinose
E. Romano, A. Baumschlager, E. B. Akmeric, N. Palanisamy, M. Houmani, G. Schmidt, M. A. Oeztuerk, L. Ernst, M. Khammash, B. Di Ventura
This paper introduces BLADE, a blue light-inducible AraC variant in E. coli that enables reversible control of gene expression and morphology, and uses it to study gene function and create bacteriographs.
Nature Chemical Biology · Apr 26, 2021Peer-reviewedMicrobiology