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Real-Time Visualization of Protein Microenvironment Changes with High Spatial Resolution in Live Cells via Site-Specific Incorporation of Rotor-Based Fluorescent Noncanonical Amino Acids

Yang, S.; Jin, S.; Zhang, M.; Chen, Y.; Guo, Y.; Yu, H.; Wolynes, P. G.; Xiao, H.

2024-10-22 biochemistry
10.1101/2024.10.19.619218 bioRxiv
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Traditional methods, such as the use of fluorescent protein fusions and environment-sensitive fluorophores, have limitations when studying protein microenvironment changes at the finest spatial resolution. These techniques often rely on bulky proteins or tags restricted to the N- or C-terminus, which can disrupt the natural behavior of the target protein and dramatically limit the ability of their method to investigate noninvasively microenvironment effects. To overcome these challenges, we have developed an innovative strategy to visualize microenvironment changes of protein substructures in real-time by genetically incorporating environment-sensitive noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) containing rotor-based fluorophores (RBFs) at specific positions within a protein of interest. Through computational redesign of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, we successfully incorporated these rotor-based ncAAs into various proteins in mammalian cells. By site-specifically placing these ncAAs in distinct regions of proteins, we detected microenvironmental changes of several different protein domains during events such as aggregation, clustering, aggregation disassembly, and cluster dissociation.

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