基于对LSSmKate红色光蛋白的大型Stokes转移结构分析的工程ESPT路径
Kiryl D Piatkevich1, Vladimir N Malashkevich, Steven C Almo
1Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|August 5, 2010
概括
具有大型斯托克斯转移 (LSS) 的工程红色光蛋白 (RFP) 使用激发状态质子转移来获得独特的光谱特性. 理性设计使LSS在各种RFP中能够在广泛的光谱中进行光.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 生物物理学的生物物理.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
背景情况:
- 具有较大的斯托克斯移位 (LSS) 的单体红色光蛋白 (RFP) 为生物成像提供了光谱优势.
- 由于它们的染色体配置,LSSmKate1和LSSmKate2具有独特的吸收和排放配置.
研究的目的:
- 阐明LSSmKate1和LSSmKate2.2中大型斯托克斯转移背后的机制.
- 通过修改现有的光蛋白来设计具有LSS特性的新型RFP.
主要方法:
- 进行X射线晶体学以确定LSSmKate1和LSSmKate2.2的结构.
- 变异性研究,同位素和温度依赖性分析,以调查激发状态质子转移 (ESPT).
- 在关键位置的传统RFP (mNeptune,mCherry,mStrawberry,mOrange,mKO) 的位点定向突变发生.
主要成果:
- LSSmKate1具有 cis 染色体配置,而 LSSmKate2具有跨配置.
- 涉及特定氨基酸残留物 (Glu160,Ser158,Asp160) 的ESPT机制被确定为导致LSS的原因.
- 工程RFP变体显示LSS光辐射范围从560到640nm.
结论:
- 在LSSmKates中,ESPT是赋予大Stokes转移的关键机制.
- 氨基酸残留的理性工程可以将LSS特性引入各种RFP中.
- 这项工作为设计具有针对不同应用的定制光谱特征的新型RFP提供了一个框架.
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