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ArticleMetallomics : integrated biometal science2014

Fluorescence lifetime imaging of physiological free Cu(II) levels in live cells with a Cu(II)-selective carbonic anhydrase-based biosensor.

Bryan J McCranor, Henryk Szmacinski, Hui Hui Zeng, Andrea K Stoddard, Tamiika Hurst, Carol A Fierke, J R Lakowicz, Richard B Thompson

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Article in Metallomics : integrated biometal science, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Selective Detection of CuAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2021
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  7. Copper signalling: causes and consequences.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Bryan J McCranorDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. rthompso@umaryland.edu.
Henryk Szmacinski
Hui Hui Zeng
Andrea K Stoddard
Tamiika Hurst
Carol A Fierke
J R Lakowicz
Richard B Thompson
University of Maryland, Baltimore · USUniversity of Michigan–Ann Arbor · USFluor (United States) · US

Funding

STRUCTURE/FUNCTION OF ZINC METALLOPROTEINSR01GM040602 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI FIERKE, CAROL A · 1993 to 2017
$6.0M
Zinc Fluorescence Biosensing and Imaging TechnologyR01EB003924 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI THOMPSON, RICHARD BLAIR · 2004 to 2010
$2.3M
Sub-Wavelength Imaging of Intracellular Metal IonsRC1GM091081 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI LAKOWICZ, JOSEPH R. · 2009 to 2010
$860k
Diffusion-Enhanced Lanthanide Nanoparticle FRET AssaysR21GM107986 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI LAKOWICZ, JOSEPH R. · 2014 to 2016
$568k
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB003924NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB03924-06NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM040602NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM107986NIGMS NIH HHS RC1 GM091081NIGMS NIH HHS RC1 GM-091081-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Copper is a required trace element that plays key roles in a number of human enzymes, such that copper deficiency or genetic defects in copper transport lead to serious or fatal disease. Rae, et al., had famously predicted that free copper ion levels in the cell cytoplasm were extremely low, typically too low to be observable. We recently developed a variant of human apocarbonic anhydrase II for sensing metal ions that exhibits 25-fold better selectivity for Cu(II) over Zn(II) than the wild type protein, enabling us to accurately measure Cu(II) in the presence of ordinary cellular (picomolar) concentrations of free zinc. We inserted a fluorescent labeled Cu(II)-specific variant of human apocarbonic anhydrase into PC-12 cells and found that the levels are indeed extremely low (in the femtomolar range). We imaged the free Cu(II) levels in living cells by means of frequency-domain fluorescence lifetime microscopy. Implications of this finding are discussed.

Indexed as

Biosensing TechniquesAnimalsCalibrationCarbonic Anhydrase IICopperHumansMicroscopy, FluorescencePC12 CellsRatsCarbonic Anhydrase IICopper

Identifiers

PMID24671220
PMCPMC4305278
OpenAlexW2010704514

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