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mScarlet, a novel high quantum yield (71%) monomeric red fluorescent protein with enhanced properties for FRET- and super resolution microscopy

Abstract number: 8648

Session Code: LS03-S10

DOI: 10.1002/9783527808465.EMC2016.8648

Meeting: The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016

Session: Life Sciences

Topic: Cell functional exploration

Presentation Form: Invited Speaker

Corresponding Email: Th.W.J.Gadella@uva.nl

Lindsay Haarbosch (1), Daphne Bindels (1), Marten Postma (1), Mark Hink (1), Antoine Royant (2), Theodorus Gadella (1)

1. Section of Molecular Cytology & van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy, SILS, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas 2. Structural Biology Group, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 38043, Grenoble, France

Keywords: fluorescent protein, FRET, spectral imaging, Super-Resolution

mScarlet, a novel red fluorescent protein was generated from a synthetic template based on a consensus amino acid sequence derived from naturally occurring red fluorescent proteins and purple chromoproteins and on consensus monomerization mutations. The encoded synthetic red fluorescent protein was optimized by molecular evolution through site directed and random mutagenesis. Improved variants were selected by quantitative multimode screening for increased fluorescence lifetime, increased photo stability, increased quantum yield and for increased chromophore maturation.

Very bright variants were obtained with high fluorescence lifetimes up to 3.8 ns, quantum yields >70 % and complete maturation. The monomeric status of the variants was confirmed by OSER analysis and with a-tubulin fusions. The brightness of mScarlet is >2- fold increased as compared to bright red fluorescent proteins such as mCherry, mRuby2 and tagRFP-T as was analyzed with quantitative (single plasmid with viral 2A sequence) coexpression with mTurquoise2 in mammalian cells.

mScarlet can be used as a bright red fluorescent fusion tag for staining various subcellular structures in live cells. Because of their efficient maturation and high quantum yield, mScarlet vastly outperforms existing monomeric red fluorescent proteins in ratiometric FRET-microscopy applications due to seriously enhanced sensitized emission and lack of photochromism (figure 1).

During evolution mScarlet variants with substantially altered spectroscopic properties were generated including fluorescence lifetime variants, photo labile variants and strongly spectrally shifted variants. Besides looking at generally optimized properties such as increased lifetime, maturation and brightness, some of these variants were rescreened for blinking properties. An mScarlet variant (7Q2BMs-K) was identified that produced high spontaneous blinking upon illumination at 561 nm. This variant was fused to life-act and co-expressed with mVenus-Lifeact. With 488 and 561 nm excitation, dual life cell single molecule localization microscopy produced perfectly colocalized yellow and red actin structures in living cells (figure 2), demonstrating the usefulness of the novel red fluorescent proteins for life cell super-resolution microscopy.

Figures:

Figure 1: FRET in YFP-RFP tandem fusions detected by wide-field fluorescence spectral imaging microscopy in live U2OS cells. Each spectrum represents an average normalized measurement obtained from > 20 individual cells. Excitation was at 500 nm.

Figure 2. Dual color live cell super resolution microscopy. Live cells co-expressing LifeAct_sYFP2 and Lifeact_7Q2BMs-K were imaged with the Nikon N-STORM system (excitation 488 and 561 nm, respectively)._x000D_

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Lindsay Haarbosch, Daphne Bindels, Marten Postma, Mark Hink, Antoine Royant, Theodorus Gadella; mScarlet, a novel high quantum yield (71%) monomeric red fluorescent protein with enhanced properties for FRET- and super resolution microscopy. The 16th European Microscopy Congress, Lyon, France. https://emc-proceedings.com/abstract/mscarlet-a-novel-high-quantum-yield-71-monomeric-red-fluorescent-protein-with-enhanced-properties-for-fret-and-super-resolution-microscopy/. Accessed: May 17, 2022
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