Lights, Kinase, Action! - UNC and NCSU Research
Deiters has helped create switches with “photocaged“ molecules that only become active when exposed to UV light. The light “frees” the molecule to initiate the process it was designed to–whether it’s activating a particular gene or causing a certain protein to be functional. In close collaboration with the laboratory of professor Klaus Hahn at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Deiters’ lab engineered an important enzyme, a kinase, that is activated when exposed to UV light. The Abstract