UMMS Affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; RNA Therapeutics Institute
Publication Date
2008-10-20
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Amino Acid Sequence; Amino Acid Substitution; Color; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; Genes, Reporter; HeLa Cells; Humans; Luminescent Proteins; Molecular Probes; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutation; Photochemistry; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Homology
Disciplines
Biochemistry | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology | Chemistry | Molecular Biology
Abstract
We used a red chromophore formation pathway, in which the anionic red chromophore is formed from the neutral blue intermediate, to suggest a rational design strategy to develop blue fluorescent proteins with a tyrosine-based chromophore. The strategy was applied to red fluorescent proteins of the different genetic backgrounds, such as TagRFP, mCherry, HcRed1, M355NA, and mKeima, which all were converted into blue probes. Further improvement of the blue variant of TagRFP by random mutagenesis resulted in an enhanced monomeric protein, mTagBFP, characterized by the substantially higher brightness, the faster chromophore maturation, and the higher pH stability than blue fluorescent proteins with a histidine in the chromophore. The detailed biochemical and photochemical analysis indicates that mTagBFP is the true monomeric protein tag for multicolor and lifetime imaging, as well as the outstanding donor for green fluorescent proteins in Forster resonance energy transfer applications.
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DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.chembiol.2008.08.006
Source
Subach OM, Gundorov IS, Yoshimura M, Subach FV, Zhang J, Grüenwald D, Souslova EA, Chudakov DM, Verkhusha VV. Conversion of red fluorescent protein into a bright blue probe. Chem Biol. 2008 Oct 20;15(10):1116-24. doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2008.08.006. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Chemistry and biology
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PubMed ID
18940671
Repository Citation
Subach, Oksana M.; Gundorov, Illia S.; Yoshimura, Masami; Subach, Fedor V.; Zhang, Jinghang; Grunwald, David; Souslova, Ekaterina A.; Chudakov, Dmitriy M.; and Verkhusha, Vladislav V., "Conversion of red fluorescent protein into a bright blue probe" (2008). Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Publications and Presentations. 171.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/bmp_pp/171
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Comments
At the time of publication, David Grünwald was not yet affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School.