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Lequn Geng1, Jiaqi Shen1, Wenjing Wang1

  • 1Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. wenjwang@umich.edu and Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 22, 2021
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Researchers engineered a light-sensing protein, AsLOV2, for precise control of peptides using circular permutation. This advancement enhances optogenetic tools for biological research.

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