title: SuperNova, a monomeric photosensitizing fluorescent protein for chromophore-assisted light inactivation.
abstract: Chromophore-assisted light inactivation (CALI) is a powerful technique for acute perturbation of biomolecules in a spatio-temporally defined manner in living specimen with reactive oxygen species (ROS). Whereas a chemical photosensitizer including fluorescein must be added to specimens exogenously and cannot be restricted to particular cells or sub-cellular compartments, a genetically-encoded photosensitizer, KillerRed, can be controlled in its expression by tissue specific promoters or subcellular localization tags. Despite of this superiority, KillerRed hasn't yet become a versatile tool because its dimerization tendency prevents fusion with proteins of interest. Here, we report the development of monomeric variant of KillerRed (SuperNova) by direct evolution using random mutagenesis. In contrast to KillerRed, SuperNova in fusion with target proteins shows proper localization. Furthermore, unlike KillerRed, SuperNova expression alone doesn't perturb mitotic cell division. Supernova retains the ability to generate ROS, and hence promote CALI-based functional analysis of target proteins overcoming the major drawbacks of KillerRed.
authors.affiliation: 1] Research Institute for Electronic Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-20 Nishi-10 Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan [2] [3].
authors.forename: Kiwamu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takemoto
authors.forename: Tomoki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Noda
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uchiyama
authors.forename: Ippei
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kotera
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horiuchi
authors.forename: Kiichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukui
authors.forename: Tokiyoshi
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authors.lastname: Ayabe
authors.forename: Fuyuhiko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Inagaki
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Takeharu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019556:COS Cells; D002460:Cell Line; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D061885:Chromophore-Assisted Light Inactivation; D015870:Gene Expression; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008164:Luminescent Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D008164:Luminescent Proteins; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins
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