Improvement of Fluorescence Quantum Yield for Terbium (III)-Bound Lanthanide-Binding Tag

  • CHEN Shao-min ,
  • TANG Chun ,
  • GONG Zhou
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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan (Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Wuhan 430071, China;
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received date: 2015-04-13

  Revised date: 2016-01-26

  Online published: 2016-03-05

Abstract

Long-lived luminescence lifetime and large Stokes shift of the lanthanide ion made it widely used in fluorescence detection. The lanthanide-binding tag (LBT) is a small, genetically encoded, versatile protein fusion partner that specifically binds a lanthanide ion with high affinity (KD ≈10-9 mol/L). These properties make LBT wildly used for studies on protein structures and functions. Lanthanide in LBT cannot be excited directly, and tryptophan is needed to serves as a sensitizer to absorb energy and transfer energy to the lanthanide. We introduced LBT onto the C-terminal of ubiquitin (Ub), and increased the number of indole rings in LBT using site-directed mutagenesis to increase the quantum yield of Tb (III)-bound Ub-LBT.

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CHEN Shao-min , TANG Chun , GONG Zhou . Improvement of Fluorescence Quantum Yield for Terbium (III)-Bound Lanthanide-Binding Tag[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2016 , 33(1) : 106 -116 . DOI: 10.11938/cjmr20160110

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