Multipurpose indicator in cells using intramolecular FRET between GFP and chemical compounds

Miho Suzuki; Yoichiro Ito; Hannah Elizabeth Savage; Yuzuru Husimi; Kenneth T. Douglas

doi:10.1117/12.477872

12 September 2003 Multipurpose indicator in cells using intramolecular FRET between GFP and chemical compounds

Miho Suzuki, Yoichiro Ito, Hannah Elizabeth Savage, Yuzuru Husimi, Kenneth T. Douglas

Proceedings Volume 4967, Genetically Engineered and Optical Probes for Biomedical Applications; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477872
Event: Biomedical Optics, 2003, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Specific, surface cysteine sites have been introduced into Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) to allow site-specific chemical modification by thiol-directed reagents. These sites have been labelled using BODIPY/eosin/rhodamine reagents as chemical FRET partners for the native GFP chromophore. When they were excited at 488 nm these engineered GFP: conjugated-fluorophore constructs, showed quenching of the native GFP fluorophore emission at 511 nm. New emission bands appeared correponding to each chemical fluorophore emission. Thus the new GFP chimeras exhibited strong intramolecular FRET. GFP mutants were then engineered with trypsin-sensitive sequences located close to the chemical fluorophore-bearing cysteine site. Trypsinolysis caused major changes in the FRET fluorescence spectra. On trypsinolysis the FRET was destroyed, as the FRET partners were now on separate molecules in the cleaved products. T Consequently, the emission wavelength altered from that of the chemically conjugated FRET partner back to that of the native fluorophore of the GFP (511 nm). This provides the possibility of efficient, ratio-based detection. Thus, protein re-engineering has led to novel probes capable of enzymatic triggering based on intramolecular FRET between GFP and specifically sited chemical labels.

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Miho Suzuki, Yoichiro Ito, Hannah Elizabeth Savage, Yuzuru Husimi, and Kenneth T. Douglas "Multipurpose indicator in cells using intramolecular FRET between GFP and chemical compounds", Proc. SPIE 4967, Genetically Engineered and Optical Probes for Biomedical Applications, (12 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477872

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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer

Green fluorescent protein

Proteins

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Rhodamine

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