一种明亮的青色可激发橙色荧光蛋白有助于双发射显微镜检查,并增强体内生物发光成像。
A bright cyan-excitable orange fluorescent protein facilitates dual-emission microscopy and enhances bioluminescence imaging in vivo.
作者信息
Chu Jun, Oh Younghee, Sens Alex, Ataie Niloufar, Dana Hod, Macklin John J, Laviv Tal, Welf Erik S, Dean Kevin M, Zhang Feijie, Kim Benjamin B, Tang Clement Tran, Hu Michelle, Baird Michelle A, Davidson Michael W, Kay Mark A, Fiolka Reto, Yasuda Ryohei, Kim Douglas S, Ng Ho-Leung, Lin Michael Z
机构信息
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
出版信息
Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jul;34(7):760-7. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3550. Epub 2016 May 30.
Orange-red fluorescent proteins (FPs) are widely used in biomedical research for multiplexed epifluorescence microscopy with GFP-based probes, but their different excitation requirements make multiplexing with new advanced microscopy methods difficult. Separately, orange-red FPs are useful for deep-tissue imaging in mammals owing to the relative tissue transmissibility of orange-red light, but their dependence on illumination limits their sensitivity as reporters in deep tissues. Here we describe CyOFP1, a bright, engineered, orange-red FP that is excitable by cyan light. We show that CyOFP1 enables single-excitation multiplexed imaging with GFP-based probes in single-photon and two-photon microscopy, including time-lapse imaging in light-sheet systems. CyOFP1 also serves as an efficient acceptor for resonance energy transfer from the highly catalytic blue-emitting luciferase NanoLuc. An optimized fusion of CyOFP1 and NanoLuc, called Antares, functions as a highly sensitive bioluminescent reporter in vivo, producing substantially brighter signals from deep tissues than firefly luciferase and other bioluminescent proteins.
橙红色荧光蛋白(FPs)在生物医学研究中被广泛用于与基于绿色荧光蛋白(GFP)的探针进行多重落射荧光显微镜观察,但它们不同的激发要求使得与新的先进显微镜方法进行多重成像变得困难。另外,由于橙红色光在组织中的相对穿透性,橙红色FPs可用于哺乳动物的深层组织成像,但其对光照的依赖性限制了它们作为深层组织报告分子的灵敏度。在此,我们描述了CyOFP1,一种明亮的、经过工程改造的、可被蓝光激发的橙红色荧光蛋白。我们表明,CyOFP1能够在单光子和双光子显微镜中与基于GFP的探针进行单激发多重成像,包括在光片系统中的延时成像。CyOFP1还可作为来自高催化性蓝色发光荧光素酶NanoLuc的共振能量转移的有效受体。CyOFP1和NanoLuc的优化融合体Antares在体内作为一种高灵敏度的生物发光报告分子发挥作用,从深层组织产生的信号比萤火虫荧光素酶和其他生物发光蛋白要亮得多。