Protein Dimerizers

Protein dimerizers, also known as chemical inducers of dimerization (CIDs), are chemical compounds which bind two different proteins and bring them into close proximity solely in the presence of the dimerizer. They are commonly used to build protein complexes.

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Inhibitors

Cat. No. 产品名称/活性
8010 SB 24011
Inhibitor of STING-TRIM29 interaction; increases cellular STING levels

Other

Cat. No. 产品名称/活性
6130 AP 1903
Chemical inducer of protein dimerization; active in vivo
6297 AP 20187
Chemical inducer of protein dimerization; active in vivo
6834 Auxin
Chemical dimerizer used in auxin-inducible degron (AID) system; phytohormone
4991 HaXS8
Chemical dimerizer
7681 Mandi
Highly efficient chemical inducer of proximity (CIP)
8088 NICE 01
Heterobifunctional compound for nuclear import of FKBPF36V tagged proteins
1292 Rapamycin
Chemical dimerizer; also mTor inhibitor and immunosuppressant
8121 TRAM 1
Chemical inducer of proximity for dTAG protein FKBPF36V and ecDHFR tags
7878 XIE62-1004
Inducer of p62-LC3 interaction; induces autophagy

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    Protein dimerizers, also known as chemical inducers of dimerization (CIDs), are chemical compounds which bind two different proteins and bring them into close proximity solely in the presence of the dimerizer. They are commonly used to build protein complexes.

    This is sometimes a natural process, as is the case with rapamycin, an antifungal compound that binds both FK506-binding protein (FKBP12) and FKBP-rapamycin binding protein (FRB). Another example of a natural dimerizer is gibberellin (GA), a plant hormone, which binds to gibberellin intensive dwarf 1 (GID1) protein. Gibberellin binding GID1 causes a conformational change, that allows the binding of gibberellin insensitive (GAI) protein.

    Dimerizers are of use in a research setting as proteins of interest can be fused to the binding proteins (e.g. GID1 and GAI) allowing them to come into contact upon addition of the dimerizer. GA3-AM is often used, when using GID1 and GAI, which is unable to dimerize until the acetoxymethyl (AM) group is cleaved by intracellular esterases.

    Other compounds, such as HaXS8, can be used to dimerize proteins of interest genetically fused to a HaloTag® and a Snap-tag®. These systems are commonly used to bring two proteins together to induce signaling or to translocate them to another cellular location such as the membrane or the proteasome for degradation.

    HaloTag is a trademark of Promega Corporation, and SNAP-tag is a trademark of New England BioLabs, Inc.