Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, Faculty of Pharmacy, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), University of Granada, Cartuja Campus, 18071 Granada, Spain.
Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Unidad de Excelencia en Quimica Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente (UEQ), University of Granada, C. U. Cartuja, 18071 Granada, Spain.
ACS Sens. 2021 Jul 23;6(7):2563-2573. doi: 10.1021/acssensors.1c00094. Epub 2021 Jun 20.
A new chloride-sensitive red fluorescent protein derived from is described. We found that mBeRFP exhibited moderate sensitivity to chloride and, via site-directed mutagenesis (S94V and R205Y), we increased the chloride affinity by more than an order of magnitude ( = 106 ± 6 mM) at physiological pH. In addition, isomerization of the chromophore produces a dual emission band with different chloride sensitivities, which allowed us to develop a ratiometric methodology to measure intracellular chloride concentrations.
本文描述了一种新型的氯离子敏感型红色荧光蛋白,来源于。我们发现 mBeRFP 对氯离子具有中等的敏感性,通过定点突变(S94V 和 R205Y),在生理 pH 值下,我们将氯离子的亲和力提高了一个数量级以上(= 106 ± 6 mM)。此外,生色团的异构化产生了一个具有不同氯离子敏感性的双发射带,这使我们能够开发出一种比率法来测量细胞内氯离子浓度。