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ArticleNature chemical biology2017

Monitoring thioredoxin redox with a genetically encoded red fluorescent biosensor.

Yichong Fan, Merna Makar, Michael X Wang, Hui-Wang Ai

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Mechanism and application of thiol-disulfide redox biosensors with a fluorescence-lifetime readout.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Lighting the light reactions of photosynthesis by means of redox-responsive genetically encoded biosensors for photosynthetic intermediates.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yichong FanThe Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
Merna MakarDepartment of Chemistry, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
Michael X WangDepartment of Chemistry, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
Hui-Wang AiThe Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
University of California, Riverside · US

Funding

A Fluorescent Toolkit for Imaging Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)R01GM118675 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI AI, HUIWANG · 2016 to 2019
$1.4M
Expansion of Unnatural Fluorescent Protein ProbesR21EB021651 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI AI, HUIWANG · 2016 to 2017
$395k
NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB021651NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118675
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thioredoxin (Trx) is one of the two major thiol antioxidants, playing essential roles in redox homeostasis and signaling. Despite its importance, there is a lack of methods for monitoring Trx redox dynamics in live cells, hindering a better understanding of physiological and pathological roles of the Trx redox system. In this work, we developed the first genetically encoded fluorescent biosensor for Trx redox by engineering a redox relay between the active-site cysteines of human Trx1 and rxRFP1, a redox-sensitive red fluorescent protein. We used the resultant biosensor-TrxRFP1-to selectively monitor perturbations of Trx redox in various mammalian cell lines. We subcellularly localized TrxRFP1 to image compartmentalized Trx redox changes. We further combined TrxRFP1 with a green fluorescent Grx1-roGFP2 biosensor to simultaneously monitor Trx and glutathione redox dynamics in live cells in response to chemical and physiologically relevant stimuli.

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Biosensing TechniquesAnimalsCell LineGlutathioneHEK293 CellsHumansLuminescent ProteinsOxidation-ReductionRed Fluorescent ProteinThioredoxinsGlutathioneLuminescent ProteinsRed Fluorescent ProteinThioredoxins

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PMID28671680
PMCPMC5605834
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