Reverse pH-Dependence of Chromophore Protonation Explains the Large Stokes Shift of the Red Fluorescent Protein mKeima

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (30) ◽  
pp. 10356-10357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastien Violot ◽  
Philippe Carpentier ◽  
Laurent Blanchoin ◽  
Dominique Bourgeois
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Ph Dependence ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Red Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Large Stokes Shift

scholarly journals Photoswitchable Red Fluorescent Protein with a Large Stokes Shift

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 1402-1414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiryl D. Piatkevich ◽  
Brian P. English ◽  
Vladimir N. Malashkevich ◽  
Hui Xiao ◽  
Steven C. Almo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Red Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Large Stokes Shift

scholarly journals mBeRFP, an Improved Large Stokes Shift Red Fluorescent Protein

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. e64849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Liang Wang ◽  
Fei Yang ◽  
Haiming Luo ◽  
Lingling Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Red Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Large Stokes Shift

scholarly journals Excited-state locked amino analogues of the green fluorescent protein chromophore with a giant Stokes shift

RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (66) ◽  
pp. 38730-38734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snizhana O. Zaitseva ◽  
Dilara A. Farkhutdinova ◽  
Nadezhda S. Baleeva ◽  
Alexander Yu. Smirnov ◽  
Marina B. Zagudaylova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Excited State ◽  
Green Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Large Stokes Shift ◽  
New Class ◽  
Green Fluorescent

We design a new class of excited-state locked GFP chromophores which intrinsically exhibit a very large Stokes shift.

scholarly journals Live-cell multiphoton fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with an improved large Stokes shift fluorescent protein

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 2054-2066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinghua Guan ◽  
Matthias Meurer ◽  
Sarada Raghavan ◽  
Aleksander Rebane ◽  
Jake R. Lindquist ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Interactions ◽  
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Living Cells ◽  
Correlation Spectroscopy ◽  
Quantitative Detection ◽  
Multiphoton Excitation ◽  
Fluorescence Correlation ◽  
Large Stokes Shift

We report an improved variant of mKeima, a monomeric long Stokes shift red fluorescent protein, hmKeima8.5. The increased intracellular brightness and large Stokes shift (∼180 nm) make it an excellent partner with teal fluorescent protein (mTFP1) for multiphoton, multicolor applications. Excitation of this pair by a single multiphoton excitation wavelength (MPE, 850 nm) yields well-separable emission peaks (∼120-nm separation). Using this pair, we measure homo- and hetero-oligomerization interactions in living cells via multiphoton excitation fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (MPE-FCS). Using tandem dimer proteins and small-molecule inducible dimerization domains, we demonstrate robust and quantitative detection of intracellular protein–protein interactions. We also use MPE-FCCS to detect drug–protein interactions in the intracellular environment using a Coumarin 343 (C343)-conjugated drug and hmKeima8.5 as a fluorescence pair. The mTFP1/hmKeima8.5 and C343/hmKeima8.5 combinations, together with our calibration constructs, provide a practical and broadly applicable toolbox for the investigation of molecular interactions in the cytoplasm of living cells.

scholarly journals Orange Fluorescent Proteins: Filling the Spectral Gap

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C1670-C1670
Author(s):  
Sergei Pletnev ◽  
Daria Shcherbakova ◽  
Oksana Subach ◽  
Vladimir Malashkevich ◽  
Steven Almo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
In Vivo Imaging ◽  
Spectral Properties ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Fluorescent Proteins ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Emission Wavelength ◽  
Microscopy Imaging ◽  
Large Stokes Shift

Fluorescent proteins (FPs) have become valuable tools for molecular biology, biochemistry, medicine, and cancer research. Starting from parent green fluorescent protein (GFP), most challenging task of the FPs studies was the development of FPs with longer excitation/emission wavelength. This pursuit was motivated by advantages of so-called red-shifted FPs, namely, lower background of cellular autofluorescence in microscopy, lower light scattering and reduced tissue absorbance of longer wavelengths for in vivo imaging. In addition to FPs with regular spectral properties, there are proteins of other types available, including FPs with a large Stokes shift and photoconvertible FPs. These special kinds of FPs have become useful in super-resolution microscopy, imaging of enzyme activities, protein-protein interactions, photolabeling, and in vivo imaging. According to their emission wavelength, red-shifted FPs could be divided in the following groups: 520-540 nm yellow FPs (YFPs), 540-570 nm orange FPs (OFPs), 570-620 nm red FPs (RFPs), and > 620 nm far-RFPs. Red shift of the excitation/emission bands of these FPs is predominantly achieved by extension of the conjugated system of the chromophore and its protonation/deprotonation. The variety of spectral properties of FPs (excitation and emission wavelength, quantum yield, brightness, photo- and pH- stability, photoconversion, large Stokes shift, etc) results from the different chromophore structures and its interactions with surrounding amino acid residues. In this work we focus on structural studies and molecular mechanisms of FPs with orange emission.

A Large Stokes Shift Fluorescent Protein Constructed from the Fusion of Red Fluorescent mCherry and Far‐Red Fluorescent BDFP1.6

ChemBioChem ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 1167-1173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bao‐Qing Zhao ◽  
Wen‐Long Ding ◽  
Zi‐Zhu Tan ◽  
Qi‐Ying Tang ◽  
Kai‐Hong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Large Stokes Shift

scholarly journals mBeRFP, a versatile fluorescent tool to enhance multichannel live imaging and its applications

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Martin ◽  
Magali Suzanne
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Fluorescent Proteins ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Live Imaging ◽  
Red Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Red Fluorescent Proteins ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Illumination Source

Cell and developmental biology increasingly require live imaging of protein dynamics in cells, tissues or living organisms. Thanks to the discovery and the development of a panel of fluorescent proteins over the last decades, live imaging has become a powerful and commonly used approach. However, multicolor live imaging remains challenging. The generation of long Stokes shift red fluorescent proteins, such as mBeRFP, offers interesting new perspectives to bypass this limitation. Here, we constructed a set of mBeRFP-expressing vectors and provided a detailed characterization of this fluorescent protein for in vivo live imaging and its applications in Drosophila. Briefly, we showed that a single illumination source is sufficient to simultaneously stimulate mBeRFP and GFP. We demonstrated that mBeRFP can be easily combined with classical green and red fluorescent protein without any crosstalk. We also showed that the low photobleaching of mBeRFP is suitable for live imaging, and that this protein can be used for quantitative applications such as FRAP or laser ablation. Finally, we believe that this fluorescent protein, with the set of new possibilities it offers, constitutes an important tool for cell, developmental and mechano biologists in their current research.

scholarly journals Structure–fluorescence activation relationships of a large Stokes shift fluorogenic RNA aptamer

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Steinmetzger ◽  
Irene Bessi ◽  
Ann-Kathrin Lenz ◽  
Claudia Höbartner
Keyword(s):  
Ligand Binding ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Stokes Shift ◽  
Fluorescence Emission ◽  
Titration Calorimetry ◽  
Rna Aptamer ◽  
Large Stokes Shift ◽  
Molecular Features ◽  
G Quadruplex ◽  
Derivatives Of

Abstract The Chili RNA aptamer is a 52 nt long fluorogen-activating RNA aptamer (FLAP) that confers fluorescence to structurally diverse derivatives of fluorescent protein chromophores. A key feature of Chili is the formation of highly stable complexes with different ligands, which exhibit bright, highly Stokes-shifted fluorescence emission. In this work, we have analyzed the interactions between the Chili RNA and a family of conditionally fluorescent ligands using a variety of spectroscopic, calorimetric and biochemical techniques to reveal key structure–fluorescence activation relationships (SFARs). The ligands under investigation form two categories with emission maxima of ∼540 or ∼590 nm, respectively, and bind with affinities in the nanomolar to low-micromolar range. Isothermal titration calorimetry was used to elucidate the enthalpic and entropic contributions to binding affinity for a cationic ligand that is unique to the Chili aptamer. In addition to fluorescence activation, ligand binding was also observed by NMR spectroscopy, revealing characteristic signals for the formation of a G-quadruplex only upon ligand binding. These data shed light on the molecular features required and responsible for the large Stokes shift and the strong fluorescence enhancement of red and green emitting RNA–chromophore complexes.

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