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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2022

Engineered Amber-Emitting Nano Luciferase and Its Use for Immunobioluminescence Imaging

Ying Xiong, Yiyu Zhang, Zefan Li, Md Shamim Reza, Xinyu Li, Xiaodong Tian, Hui-Wang Ai

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ying XiongDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States.
Yiyu ZhangDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8636-2827
Zefan LiDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3019-155X
Md Shamim RezaDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States.
Xinyu LiDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States.
Xiaodong TianDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States.
Hui-Wang AiDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5664-3270
University of Virginia · US

Funding

Red and Far-Red Fluorescent Biosensors for Compartmentalized Redox SignalingR01GM129291 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI AI, HUIWANG · 2018 to 2021
$2.1M
An Integrated Fluorescent Biosensor, Imaging, and Analysis Toolkit for Islet BiologicsR01DK122253 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI AI, HUIWANG · 2020 to 2023
$1.6M
Fluorescent Redox Indicators to Image Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer's DiseaseRF1AG077773 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI AI, HUIWANG · 2022 to 2022
$1.6M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG077773NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK122253NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM129291
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The NanoLuc luciferase (NLuc) and its furimazine (FRZ) substrate have revolutionized bioluminescence (BL) assays and imaging. However, the use of the NLuc-FRZ luciferase-luciferin pair for mammalian tissue imaging is hindered by the low tissue penetration of the emitting blue photons. Here, we present the development of an NLuc mutant, QLuc, which catalyzes the oxidation of a synthetic QTZ luciferin for bright and red-shifted emission peaking at ∼585 nm. Compared to other small single-domain NLuc mutants, this amber-light-emitting luciferase exhibited improved performance for imaging deep-tissue targets in live mice. Leveraging this novel bioluminescent reporter, we further pursued

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AmberPyrazinesAnimalsFuransHumansImidazolesLuciferasesLuminescent MeasurementsMammalsMiceAmberFuransfurimazineImidazolesLuciferasesnanolucPyrazines

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PMID35913786
PMCPMC9425369
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