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Article Dans Une Revue Biochemistry Année : 2011

Cyan fluorescent protein carries a constitutive mutation that prevents its dimerization.

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The tendency of GFP-like fluorescent proteins to dimerize in vitro is a permanent concern as it may lead to artifacts in FRET imaging applications. However, we have found recently that CFP and YFP (the couple of GFP variants mostly used in FRET studies) show no trace of association in the cytosol of living cells up to millimolar concentrations. In this study, we investigated the oligomerization properties of purified CFP, by fluorescence anisotropy and sedimentation velocity. Surprisingly, we found that CFP has a much weaker homoaffinity than other fluorescent proteins (K(d) ≥ 3 × 10(-3) M), and that this is due to the constitutive N146I mutation, originally introduced into CFP to improve its brightness.
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hal-01183186 , version 1 (08-02-2024)

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Agathe Espagne, Marie Erard, Karine Madiona, Valérie Derrien, Gabriella Jonasson, et al.. Cyan fluorescent protein carries a constitutive mutation that prevents its dimerization.. Biochemistry, 2011, 50 (4), pp.437-439. ⟨10.1021/bi1015875⟩. ⟨hal-01183186⟩
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