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CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 10, Pages 1116-1124Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2008.08.006
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- National Institutes of Health [GM070358, GM073913, AA013148]
- EC [LSHGCT-2003-503259]
- NATO Collaborative Linkage [CBP.NR.NRCLG 981752]
- President of the Russian Federation and Rosnauka [02.512.11.2216]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [GR3388/1]
- NCI [NCI (CA13330)]
- MAID [AI051519]
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We used a red chromophore formation pathway, in which the anionic red chromophore is formed from the neutral blue intermediate, to suggest a rational design strategy to develop blue fluorescent proteins with a tyrosine-based chromophore. The strategy was applied to red fluorescent proteins of the different genetic backgrounds, such as TagRFP, mCherry, HcRed1, M355NA, and mKeima, which all were converted into blue probes. Further improvement of the blue variant of TagRFP by random mutagenesis resulted in an enhanced monomeric protein, mTagBFP, characterized by the substantially higher brightness, the faster chromophore maturation, and the higher pH stability than blue fluorescent proteins with a histidine in the chromophore. The detailed biochemical and photochemical analysis indicates that mTagBFP is the true monomeric protein tag for multicolor and lifetime imaging, as well as the outstanding donor for green fluorescent proteins in Forster resonance energy transfer applications.
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