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Imaging Proteins Sensitive to Direct Fusions Using Transient Peptide–Peptide Interactions

[Image: see text] Fluorescence microscopy enables specific visualization of proteins in living cells and has played an important role in our understanding of the protein subcellular location and function. Some proteins, however, show altered localization or function when labeled using direct fusions...

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Autores principales: Gidden, Zoe, Oi, Curran, Johnston, Emily J., Konieczna, Zuzanna, Bhaskar, Haresh, Mendive-Tapia, Lorena, de Moliner, Fabio, Rosser, Susan J., Mochrie, Simon G. J., Vendrell, Marc, Horrocks, Mathew H., Regan, Lynne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2023
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10683072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37916770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03780
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Sumario:[Image: see text] Fluorescence microscopy enables specific visualization of proteins in living cells and has played an important role in our understanding of the protein subcellular location and function. Some proteins, however, show altered localization or function when labeled using direct fusions to fluorescent proteins, making them difficult to study in live cells. Additionally, the resolution of fluorescence microscopy is limited to ∼200 nm, which is 2 orders of magnitude larger than the size of most proteins. To circumvent these challenges, we previously developed LIVE-PAINT, a live-cell super-resolution approach that takes advantage of short interacting peptides to transiently bind a fluorescent protein to the protein-of-interest. Here, we successfully use LIVE-PAINT to image yeast membrane proteins that do not tolerate the direct fusion of a fluorescent protein by using peptide tags as short as 5-residues. We also demonstrate that it is possible to resolve multiple proteins at the nanoscale concurrently using orthogonal peptide interaction pairs.