Baker lab designs transcriptional regulators from scratch, recruiting cofactors without natural activation domains
AllThingsApx · x · 2026-10-22
A new Baker lab paper takes a bottom-up approach to designing transcriptional regulators: rather than relying on natural activation domains, the team designed compact proteins that recruit specific cofactors. Activators are done; repressors are next.
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