A progesterone biosensor derived from microbial screening

oleh: Chloé Grazon, R C. Baer, Uroš Kuzmanović, Thuy Nguyen, Mingfu Chen, Marjon Zamani, Margaret Chern, Patricia Aquino, Xiaoman Zhang, Sébastien Lecommandoux, Andy Fan, Mario Cabodi, Catherine Klapperich, Mark W. Grinstaff, Allison M. Dennis, James E. Galagan

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-03-01

Deskripsi

Bacteria represent an unexploited reservoir of biosensing proteins. Here the authors use genomic screens and functional assays to isolate a progesterone sensing allosteric transcription factor and use a FRET-based method to develop an optical progesterone sensor.