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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2021

Design of Large Stokes Shift Fluorescent Proteins Based on Excited State Proton Transfer of an Engineered Photobase.

Elizabeth M Santos, Wei Sheng, Rahele Esmatpour Salmani, Setare Tahmasebi Nick, Alireza Ghanbarpour, Hadi Gholami, Chrysoula Vasileiou, James H Geiger, Babak Borhan

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth M SantosMichigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Wei ShengMichigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9044-905X
Rahele Esmatpour SalmaniMichigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Setare Tahmasebi NickMichigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Alireza GhanbarpourMichigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7485-029X
Hadi GholamiMichigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6520-0845
Chrysoula VasileiouMichigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
James H GeigerMichigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Babak BorhanMichigan State University, Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3193-0732
Michigan State University · US

Funding

Protein/Chromphore Interactions via Protein Design: Interrogation and ApplicationR01GM101353 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BORHAN, BABAK, GEIGER, JAMES H · 2013 to 2022
$2.6M
The Role of Lipid Transport in Autophagy Biogenesis Using Structural and Biochemical ApproachesF32GM137568 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GHANBARPOUR, ALIREZA · 2020 to 2021
$85k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM137568NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM101353
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The incredible potential for fluorescent proteins to revolutionize biology has inspired the development of a variety of design strategies to address an equally broad range of photophysical characteristics, depending on potential applications. Of these, fluorescent proteins that simultaneously exhibit high quantum yield, red-shifted emission, and wide separation between excitation and emission wavelengths (Large Stokes Shift, LSS) are rare. The pursuit of LSS systems has led to the formation of a complex, obtained from the marriage of a rationally engineered protein (human cellular retinol binding protein II, hCRBPII) and different fluorogenic molecules, capable of supporting photobase activity. The large increase in basicity upon photoexcitation leads to protonation of the fluorophore in the excited state, dramatically red-shifting its emission, leading to an LSS protein/fluorophore complex. Essential for selective photobase activity is the intimate involvement of the target protein structure and sequence that enables Excited State Proton Transfer (ESPT). The potential power and usefulness of the strategy was demonstrated in live cell imaging of human cell lines.

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Protein EngineeringGlutamic AcidHeLa CellsHumansLuminescent ProteinsPhotochemical ProcessesGlutamic AcidLuminescent Proteins

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