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content.text= "A reliable, yet easily adaptable mechanism for controlling protein activity is key to most areas of life and medical science research. Still, the most common approaches suffer from various flaws. Knocking genes out using homologous recombination, knocking a gene down with RNA interference or modulating the behaviour of a protein with a chemical stimulus - just to name a few prominent methods - is either restricted to non-lethal genes, does not yield a big difference in activity, or is absolutely inaccurate and thus prone to secondary effects.</br></br> Would it not be great if one could turn off any protein, at any time, with little to no side effects? That is where iGEM Bonn 2013 and their project comes in. We aim to overcome the aforementioned difficulties by engineering a novel tool based on blue-light-inducible degradation of targeted proteins.</br></br>Our system relies on two key components: A tiny (just 15 amino acids!) tag that is fused to the C-Terminus of a protein of your choosing, and a light sensing LOV (Light, Oxygen and Voltage) domain from Avena sativa.</br></br> The advantages of our approach are obvious: Not only does the usage of light allow for a superior tempero-spatial control, but it is also much less prone to unwanted side effects than any chemical stimulus.</br> Furthermore, as we rely on a direct degradation of the targeted protein, we expect an onset of the desired effect which is much faster and at least as high as in common approaches.</br> Finally, as our system requires only a minor modification of your target protein we expect its function to not be impaired, and the tag to go unnoticed in functional observations.";