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ArticleNature cell biology2018

Single-fluorophore biosensors for sensitive and multiplexed detection of signalling activities.

Sohum Mehta, Yong Zhang, Richard H Roth, Jin-Fan Zhang, Albert Mo, Brian Tenner, Richard L Huganir, Jin Zhang

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Article in Nature cell biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers.

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101citing papers in PubMed
18.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

101 citing papers in PubMed, 167 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 3 countries.

Sohum MehtaDepartment of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. sohum@ucsd.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4764-8579
Yong ZhangDepartment of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Neuroscience Research Institute; Key Lab for Neuroscience, Ministry of Education of China and National Health Commission of the P.R. China; IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at PKU, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Richard H RothThe Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6855-999X
Jin-Fan ZhangDepartment of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Albert MoDepartment of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Brian TennerDepartment of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Richard L HuganirThe Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. rhuganir@jhmi.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9783-5183
Jin ZhangDepartment of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. jzhang32@ucsd.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7145-7823
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversity of California San Diego · USPeking University · CN

Funding

Live-cell Activity Architecture in CancerR35CA197622 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Jin Zhang · 2015 to 2026
$11.2M
Mechanisms of Compartmentalized cAMP SignalingR01DK073368 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Jin Zhang · 2006 to 2026
$7.6M
Multiplex in vivo imaging of cell-specific and circuit-specific signaling pathways during synaptic plasticityR01MH111516 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HUGANIR, RICHARD L, ZHANG, JIN · 2016 to 2018
$1.8M
Signal Transduction by PI3K/Akt/mTOR PathwayR01GM111665 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ZHANG, JIN · 2015 to 2018
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197622NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK073368NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM111665NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH111516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unravelling the dynamic molecular interplay behind complex physiological processes such as neuronal plasticity requires the ability to both detect minute changes in biochemical states in response to physiological signals and track multiple signalling activities simultaneously. Fluorescent protein-based biosensors have enabled the real-time monitoring of dynamic signalling processes within the native context of living cells, yet most commonly used biosensors exhibit poor sensitivity (for example, due to low dynamic range) and are limited to imaging signalling activities in isolation. Here, we address this challenge by developing a suite of excitation ratiometric kinase activity biosensors that offer the highest reported dynamic range and enable the detection of subtle changes in signalling activity that could not be reliably detected previously, as well as a suite of single-fluorophore biosensors that enable the simultaneous tracking of as many as six distinct signalling activities in single living cells.

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Signal TransductionAnimalsBiosensing TechniquesCell TrackingFluorescent DyesGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHEK293 CellsHeLa CellsHumansMiceMicroscopy, ConfocalNIH 3T3 CellsPC12 CellsRatsReproducibility of ResultsSingle-Cell AnalysisFluorescent DyesGreen Fluorescent Proteins

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PMID30250062
PMCPMC6258557
OpenAlexW2892339961

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