Two methods for controlling protein activities with small molecules provide a general solution to a long-standing challenge in mammalian synthetic biology.
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Dickinson, B.C. Controlling protein function with HCV protease. Nat Methods 15, 489–490 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0043-x
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