Light moves mountains in the cell

Sohum Mehta; Jin Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2015.05.002

Light moves mountains in the cell

Chem Biol. 2015 May 21;22(5):569-70. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2015.05.002.

Authors

Sohum Mehta¹, Jin Zhang²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
² Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience and Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: jzhang32@jhmi.edu.

PMID: 26000746
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2015.05.002

Abstract

In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, Duan et al. (2015) report the use of a light-inducible protein-protein interaction system to dynamically control the movement of intracellular organelles with spatial and temporal precision in living cells.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Arabidopsis Proteins / metabolism*
Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors / metabolism*
Cryptochromes / metabolism*
Optogenetics*

Substances

Arabidopsis Proteins
Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
Cryptochromes