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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025

Ancestral Protein-Based Lighting.

Stephanie Willeit, Alexander Mauz, David Gutiérrez-Armayor, Joseph Arbash, Jesús Agustín Banda-Vázquez, Sergio Martí, Pedro B Coto, Rubén D Costa

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Stephanie WilleitTechnical University of Munich, Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials, Schulgasse 22, 94315, Straubing, Germany.
Alexander MauzTechnical University of Munich, Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials, Schulgasse 22, 94315, Straubing, Germany.
David Gutiérrez-ArmayorTechnical University of Munich, Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials, Schulgasse 22, 94315, Straubing, Germany.
Joseph ArbashTechnical University of Munich, Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials, Schulgasse 22, 94315, Straubing, Germany.
Jesús Agustín Banda-VázquezTechnical University of Munich, Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials, Schulgasse 22, 94315, Straubing, Germany.
Sergio MartíInstitute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castellón de la Plana, 12071, Spain.
Pedro B CotoNanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center (CINN), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Avenida de la Vega 4-6, El Entrego, 33940, Spain.
Rubén D CostaTechnical University of Munich, Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials, Schulgasse 22, 94315, Straubing, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3776-9158

Funding

HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 of the European Commission
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-optoelectronics is a paradigm toward eco-designed and sustainable technologies. The challenge is, however, how to preserve the native activity of proteins upon device fabrication/operation in non-native environments (solvents, organic/inorganic interfaces, and working temperatures/irradiations). Herein, a new vision to identify and design ancestral-like fluorescent proteins (FPs) is proposed. Using ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) out of a large dataset (221) of the best modern FPs suitable for photon down-conversion in bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes (Bio-HLEDs) a historical-genetic reconstruction (family tree) was obtained, identifying a possible common ancestral FP. This computationally designed protein is produced in bacteria, featuring outstanding photoluminescence quantum yields in solution (e.g., 90%/80% for green-/red-emitting forms) and a strong tendency to agglomerate in polymer coatings. This resulted in red-emitting Bio-HLEDs that outperformed the reference with ≈2-fold enhanced stabilities. The resplendent green-/red-emission of ancestral-like FP itself and its respective devices led us to coin this new protein as QuetzalFP. Overall, it is set in ASR as an effective concept to reshape protein-optoelectronics allowing us to identify i) many interesting ancestral FPs for lighting and ii) QuetzalFP as stepping-stone platform for protein engineering.

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LightingLuminescent ProteinsProtein EngineeringLuminescent Proteinsancestral sequence reconstructionbio‐hybrid light‐emitting diodesfluorescent proteinphoton manipulationprotein‐lighting

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PMID40557532
PMCPMC12412002

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