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Abstract

The development of a convenient and promising alternative to the various two-hybrid methods that are used to study protein–protein interactions is described. In this system, a lambdoid chimeric operator is recognized by a hybrid repressor formed by two chimeric monomers whose C-terminal domains are composed of heterologous proteins (or protein domains). Only if these proteins efficiently dimerize is a functional repressor formed able to bind the chimeric operator and shut off the synthesis of a downstream reporter gene. This new approach was tested with several interacting proteins ranging in size from less than 100 to more than 800 amino acids and, to date, no size or topology limit has been detected.

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