Prozzillo, Y.; Fattorini, G.; Santopietro, M.V.; Suglia, L.; Ruggiero, A.; Ferreri, D.; Messina, G. Targeted Protein Degradation Tools: Overview and Future Perspectives. Biology2020, 9, 421.
Prozzillo, Y.; Fattorini, G.; Santopietro, M.V.; Suglia, L.; Ruggiero, A.; Ferreri, D.; Messina, G. Targeted Protein Degradation Tools: Overview and Future Perspectives. Biology 2020, 9, 421.
Prozzillo, Y.; Fattorini, G.; Santopietro, M.V.; Suglia, L.; Ruggiero, A.; Ferreri, D.; Messina, G. Targeted Protein Degradation Tools: Overview and Future Perspectives. Biology2020, 9, 421.
Prozzillo, Y.; Fattorini, G.; Santopietro, M.V.; Suglia, L.; Ruggiero, A.; Ferreri, D.; Messina, G. Targeted Protein Degradation Tools: Overview and Future Perspectives. Biology 2020, 9, 421.
Abstract
Targeted Protein Silencing (TPS) is an elegant approach to investigate protein function and its role in the cellular landscape, overcoming limitations of genetic perturbation strategies. In contrast to CRISPR/Cas9 and RNA interference, these systems act in a reversible manner and reduce off-target effects. Several TPS have been developed and wisely improved, including compartment delocalization tools and protein degradation systems. In this review, we focus on Anchor-Away, deGradFP, auxin inducible degron (AID) and dTAG technologies, and discuss their recent applications and advances. Finally, we propose Nano-Grad, a novel nanobody-based protein degradation tool to specifically proteolyze endogenous tag-free target protein.
Keywords
Targeted Protein Silencing (TPS); Targeted Protein Degradation (TPD); dTAG; FKBP12; von Hippel-Lindau (VHL); degron; deGradFP; Anchor-Away; Nanobody; Nano-Grad
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Anatomy and Physiology
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