Multicolor protein FRET with tryptophan, selective coumarin-cysteine labeling, and genetic acridonylalanine encoding

作者：Ferrie John J; Ieda Naoya; Haney Conor M; Walters Christopher R; Sungwienwong Itthipol; Yoon Jimin; Petersson E James^*

来源：Chemical communications, 2017, 53(80): 11072-11075.

DOI：10.1039/c7cc05492k

Site-specific fluorescence probes can be used to measure distances within proteins when used as part of a Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) pair. Here we report the synthesis of a coumarin maleimide (Mcm-Mal) that is fluorogenic upon reaction with cysteine. We demonstrate that cysteine, acridonylalanine (Acd) double mutant proteins can be produced by unnatural amino acid mutagenesis and reacted with Mcm-Mal to generate Mcm/Acd labeled proteins for FRET studies. The Mcm/Acd FRET pair is minimally-perturbing, easy to install, and well-suited to studying protein distances in the 15-40 angstrom range. Furthermore, Mcm/Acd labeling can be combined with tryptophan fluorescence in three color FRET to monitor multiple interactions in one experiment.

• 出版日期2017-10-14