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Progress in A. fumigatus has been limited by the availability of genetic tools with which to study this filamentous fungus. Currently available means of altering the dosage of genes and gene products include construction of disruption mutants as well as regulated promoters. These are powerful techniques but somewhat limited for the analysis of essential genes. Here we describe a new method that permits regulated proteolysis of any A. fumigatus protein that can be made as a fusion protein to the well-described green fluorescent protein (GFP) of Aequorea victoria. A GFP fusion protein of interest can be targeted for degradation using a single-chain antibody called a nanobody that recognizes GFP (GFPNb). This GFPNb is in turn fused to an E3 ligase protein called Rnf4 from rat that efficiently ubiquitinates target proteins. A fusion gene was constructed under control of a doxycycline-inducible promoter that produced a GFPNb-Rnf4 fusion protein in A. fumigatus. 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