TY - JOUR
T1 - An orange fluorescent protein with a large stokes shift for single-excitation multicolor FCCS and FRET imaging
AU - Shcherbakova, Daria M.
AU - Hink, Mark A.
AU - Joosen, Linda
AU - Gadella, Theodorus W.J.
AU - Verkhusha, Vladislav V.
PY - 2012/5/9
Y1 - 2012/5/9
N2 - Multicolor imaging based on genetically encoded fluorescent proteins (FPs) is a powerful approach to study several dynamic processes in a live cell. We report a monomeric orange FP with a large Stokes shift (LSS), called LSSmOrange (excitation/emission at 437/572 nm), which fills up an existing spectral gap between the green-yellow and red LSSFPs. Brightness of LSSmOrange is five-fold larger than that of the brightest red LSSFP and similar to the green-yellow LSSFPs. LSSmOrange allows numerous multicolor applications using a single-excitation wavelength that was not possible before. Using LSSmOrange we developed four-color single-laser fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy, solely based on FPs. The quadruple cross-correlation combined with photon counting histogram techniques allowed quantitative single-molecule analysis of particles labeled with four FPs. LSSmOrange was further applied to simultaneously image two Förster resonance energy transfer pairs, one of which is the commonly used CFP-YFP pair, with a single-excitation laser line. The combination of LSSmOrange-mKate2 and CFP-YFP biosensors enabled imaging of apoptotic activity and calcium fluctuations in real time. The LSSmOrange mutagenesis, low-temperature, and isotope effect studies revealed a proton relay for the excited-state proton transfer responsible for the LSS phenotype.
AB - Multicolor imaging based on genetically encoded fluorescent proteins (FPs) is a powerful approach to study several dynamic processes in a live cell. We report a monomeric orange FP with a large Stokes shift (LSS), called LSSmOrange (excitation/emission at 437/572 nm), which fills up an existing spectral gap between the green-yellow and red LSSFPs. Brightness of LSSmOrange is five-fold larger than that of the brightest red LSSFP and similar to the green-yellow LSSFPs. LSSmOrange allows numerous multicolor applications using a single-excitation wavelength that was not possible before. Using LSSmOrange we developed four-color single-laser fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy, solely based on FPs. The quadruple cross-correlation combined with photon counting histogram techniques allowed quantitative single-molecule analysis of particles labeled with four FPs. LSSmOrange was further applied to simultaneously image two Förster resonance energy transfer pairs, one of which is the commonly used CFP-YFP pair, with a single-excitation laser line. The combination of LSSmOrange-mKate2 and CFP-YFP biosensors enabled imaging of apoptotic activity and calcium fluctuations in real time. The LSSmOrange mutagenesis, low-temperature, and isotope effect studies revealed a proton relay for the excited-state proton transfer responsible for the LSS phenotype.
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U2 - 10.1021/ja3018972
DO - 10.1021/ja3018972
M3 - Article
C2 - 22486524
AN - SCOPUS:84860852635
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 134
SP - 7913
EP - 7923
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 18
ER -