Genetically Encoded FRET-based Optical Sensor for Hg Detection and Intracellular Imaging in Living Cells

Overview

Journal J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2019 Sep 19

PMID 31531745

Citations 3

Authors

Neha Soleja

Mohamad Aman Jairajpuri

Aarfa Queen

Mohd Mohsin

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Abstract

Due to the potential toxicity of mercury, there is an immediate need to understand its uptake, transport and flux within living cells. Conventional techniques used to analyze Hg are invasive, involve high cost and are less sensitive. In the present study, a highly efficient genetically encoded mercury FRET sensor (MerFS) was developed to measure the cellular dynamics of Hg at trace level in real time. To construct MerFS, the periplasmic mercury-binding protein MerP was sandwiched between enhanced cyan fluorescent protein (ECFP) and venus. MerFS is pH stable, offers a measurable fluorescent signal and binds to Hg with high sensitivity and selectivity. Mutant MerFS-51 binds with an apparent affinity (K) of 5.09 × 10 M, thus providing a detection range for Hg quantification between 0.210 µM and 1.196 µM. Furthermore, MerFS-51 was targeted to Escherichia coli (E. coli), yeast and human embryonic kidney (HEK)-293T cells that allowed dynamic measurement of intracellular Hg concentration with a highly responsive saturation curve, proving its potential application in cellular systems.

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