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ArticleNature biotechnology2023

Time-tagged ticker tapes for intracellular recordings.

Dingchang Lin, Xiuyuan Li, Eric Moult, Pojeong Park, Benjamin Tang, Hao Shen, Jonathan B Grimm, Natalie Falco, Bill Z Jia, David Baker and 2 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
8.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Dingchang Lin *Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. dingchang@g.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9354-5952
Xiuyuan Li *Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Eric MoultDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Pojeong ParkDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5574-6104
Benjamin TangDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Hao ShenInstitute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Jonathan B GrimmJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0331-4200
Natalie FalcoJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA.
Bill Z JiaDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1138-3217
David BakerInstitute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7896-6217
Luke D LavisJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0789-6343
Adam E CohenDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. cohen@chemistry.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8699-2404
Harvard University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Protein ticker-tapes for brain-wide neural recordingsR21EY033669 · NEI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI COHEN, ADAM EZRA · 2022 to 2023
$676k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNEI NIH HHS R21 EY033669
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recording transcriptional histories of a cell would enable deeper understanding of cellular developmental trajectories and responses to external perturbations. Here we describe an engineered protein fiber that incorporates diverse fluorescent marks during its growth to store a ticker tape-like history. An embedded HaloTag reporter incorporates user-supplied dyes, leading to colored stripes that map the growth of each individual fiber to wall clock time. A co-expressed eGFP tag driven by a promoter of interest records a history of transcriptional activation. High-resolution multi-spectral imaging on fixed samples reads the cellular histories, and interpolation of eGFP marks relative to HaloTag timestamps provides accurate absolute timing. We demonstrate recordings of doxycycline-induced transcription in HEK cells and cFos promoter activation in cultured neurons, with a single-cell absolute accuracy of 30-40 minutes over a 12-hour recording. The protein-based ticker tape design we present here could be generalized to achieve massively parallel single-cell recordings of diverse physiological modalities.

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NeuronsProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsPromoter Regions, GeneticGreen Fluorescent ProteinsProteins

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PMID36593408
PMCPMC10192119
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