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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2024

Structural Mapping of Protein Aggregates in Live Cells Modeling Huntington's Disease.

Zhongyue Guo, Giulio Chiesa, Jiaze Yin, Adam Sanford, Stefan Meier, Ahmad S Khalil, Ji-Xin Cheng

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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  8. Metasurface-enhanced biomedical spectroscopy.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Zhongyue GuoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Giulio ChiesaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Jiaze YinPhotonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Adam SanfordDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Stefan MeierDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Ahmad S KhalilDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Ji-Xin ChengDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5607-6683

Funding

Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging to Unveil Hidden Signatures in Living SystemsR35GM136223 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI CHENG, JI-XIN · 2020 to 2025
$5.7M
Rapid AST through Metabolic Imaging at Single Cell LevelR01AI141439 · NIAID · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI Ji-Xin Cheng · 2019 to 2026
$4.7M
Fluorescence Enhanced Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy (FE-PTIR) - breakthrough for simultaneous fluorescence microscopy and sub-micron IR spectroscopyR44GM142346 · NIGMS · PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP. · PI PRATER, CRAIG · 2022 to 2023
$1.7M
Fluorescence Enhanced Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy (FE-PTIR)-breakthrough for simultaneous fluorescence microscopy and sub-micron IR spectroscopyR43GM142346 · NIGMS · PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPY CORP. · PI PRATER, CRAIG · 2021 to 2021
$257k
BrightFocus Foundation AN2020002National Science Foundation G-22-63292NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136223NIGMS NIH HHS R43 GM142346NIGMS NIH HHS R44 GM142346NIH HHS R01AI141439NIH HHS R35GM136223U.S. Department of Defense N00014-20-1-2825
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While protein aggregation is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases, acquiring structural information on protein aggregates inside live cells remains challenging. Traditional microscopy does not provide structural information on protein systems. Routinely used fluorescent protein tags, such as Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), might perturb native structures. Here, we report a counter-propagating mid-infrared photothermal imaging approach enabling mapping of secondary structure of protein aggregates in live cells modeling Huntington's disease. By comparing mid-infrared photothermal spectra of label-free and GFP-tagged huntingtin inclusions, we demonstrate that GFP fusions indeed perturb the secondary structure of aggregates. By implementing spectra with small spatial step for dissecting spectral features within sub-micrometer distances, we reveal that huntingtin inclusions partition into a β-sheet-rich core and a ɑ-helix-rich shell. We further demonstrate that this structural partition exists only in cells with the [RNQ

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Huntingtin ProteinHuntington DiseaseProtein AggregatesGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHumansGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHTT protein, humanHuntingtin ProteinProtein AggregatesHuntington's DiseaseProtein AggregationSecondary StructureSynthetic BiologyVibrational Spectroscopy

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PMID38880765
PMCPMC11781839

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