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High-Throughput Optogenetics Experiments in Yeast Using the Automated Platform Lustro

Optogenetics offers precise control over cellular behavior by utilizing genetically encoded light-sensitive proteins. However, optimizing these systems to ...

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Evaluation of Benzinger et al.: Optogenetic circuits for dynamic signal processing.

Optogenetic systems use genetically encoded light-sensitive proteins to control cellular processes. This provides the potential to orthogonally control cells with light; however, these systems require many design-build-test cycles to achieve a functional design and multiple illumination variables need to be laboriously tuned for optimal stimulation. We combine laboratory automation and a modular cloning scheme to enable high-throughput construction and characterization of optogenetic split transcription factors in . We expand the yeast optogenetic toolkit to include variants of the cryptochromes and enhanced Magnets, incorporate these light-sensitive dimerizers into split transcription factors, and automate illumination and measurement of cultures in a 96-well microplate format for high-throughput characterization. We use this approach to rationally design and test an optimized enhanced Magnet transcription factor with improved light-sensitive gene expression. This approach is generalizable to the high-throughput characterization of optogenetic systems across a range of biological systems and applications.

Zachary P. Harmer

Department of Biomedical Engineering

University of Wisconsin-Madison

High-Throughput Optogenetics Experiments in Yeast Using the Automated Platform Lustro

Zachary P. Harmer

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

High-Throughput Optogenetics Experiments in Yeast Using the Automated Platform Lustro

Department of Biomedical Engineering