Proteins often contain multiple domains that can exert different cellular functions. Gene knock-outs (KO) do not consider this functional diversity. Here, we report a recombination-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE)-based structure-function approach in KO embryonic stem cells that allows for the molecular dissection of various functional domains or variants of a protein.
Pieters, T., Haenebalcke, L., Bruneel, K., Vandamme, N., Hochepied, T., van Hengel, J., Wirth, D., Berx, G., Haigh, J. J., van Roy, F., Goossens, S. Structure-function Studies in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Using Recombinase-mediated Cassette Exchange. J. Vis. Exp. (122), e55575, doi:10.3791/55575 (2017).