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A Strategy to Optimize the Generation of Stable Chromobody Cell Lines for Visualization and Quantification of Endogenous Proteins in Living Cells
摘要： Single-domain antibodies have emerged as highly versatile nanoprobes for advanced cellular imaging. For real-time visualization of endogenous antigens, fluorescently labelled nanobodies (chromobodies, CBs) are introduced as DNA-encoded expression constructs in living cells. Commonly, CB expression is driven from strong, constitutively active promoters. However, high expression levels are sometimes accompanied by misfolding and aggregation of those intracellular nanoprobes. Moreover, stable cell lines derived from random genomic insertion of CB-encoding transgenes bear the risk of disturbed cellular processes and inhomogeneous CB signal intensities due to gene positioning effects and epigenetic silencing. In this study we propose a strategy to generate optimized CB expressing cell lines. We demonstrate that expression as ubiquitin fusion increases the fraction of intracellularly functional CBs and identified the elongation factor 1α (EF1-α) promoter as highly suited for constitutive CB expression upon long-term cell line cultivation. Finally, we applied a CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing approach for targeted insertion of CB expression constructs into the adeno-associated virus integration site 1 (AAVS1) safe harbour locus of human cells. Our results indicate that this combinatorial approach facilitates the generation of fully functional and stable CB cell lines for quantitative live-cell imaging of endogenous antigens.
关键词： chromobodies,live-cell imaging,cellular models,compound screening,nanobodies
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Nanobody Detection of Standard Fluorescent Proteins Enables Multi-Target DNA-PAINT with High Resolution and Minimal Displacement Errors
摘要： DNA point accumulation for imaging in nanoscale topography (PAINT) is a rapidly developing fluorescence super-resolution technique, which allows for reaching spatial resolutions below 10 nm. It also enables the imaging of multiple targets in the same sample. However, using DNA-PAINT to observe cellular structures at such resolution remains challenging. Antibodies, which are commonly used for this purpose, lead to a displacement between the target protein and the reporting fluorophore of 20–25 nm, thus limiting the resolving power. Here, we used nanobodies to minimize this linkage error to ~4 nm. We demonstrate multiplexed imaging by using three nanobodies, each able to bind to a different family of fluorescent proteins. We couple the nanobodies with single DNA strands via a straight forward and stoichiometric chemical conjugation. Additionally, we built a versatile computer-controlled microfluidic setup to enable multiplexed DNA-PAINT in an efficient manner. As a proof of principle, we labeled and imaged proteins on mitochondria, the Golgi apparatus, and chromatin. We obtained super-resolved images of the three targets with 20 nm resolution, and within only 35 minutes acquisition time.
关键词： DNA-PAINT,microfluidics,super-resolution microscopy,fluorescent proteins,molecular localization,multi-color imaging,multiplexing,single domain antibodies (sdAb),linkage error,nanobodies
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36
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Simultaneous Unlocking Optoelectronic and Interfacial Properties of C <sub/>60</sub> for Ultrasensitive Immunosensing by Coupling to Metal?Organic Framework
摘要： Due to exceptional electron-accepting ability, light-absorption and delocalized conjugated structure, buckminsterfullerene (C60) has attracted fascinating interests in the field of organic solar cells. However, poor delocalization and accumulation of electrons for pristine C60 in physiological aqueous solution and difficulties in conjugation with biomolecules limit its extended photovoltaic applications in bioassay. Herein, we reported the non-covalent coupling of C60 to an electronically complementary porphyrin-derived metal-organic framework (PCN-224) with carboxyl-group terminals. Such assembly not only offered a friendly interface for bioconjugation but also resulted in a long-range ordering C60@PCN-224 donor-acceptor system that demonstrated an unprecedented photocurrent enhancement up to 10 times with respect to each component. As an example, by further cooperating with Nanobodies, the as-prepared C60@PCN-224 was applied to a photoelectrochemical (PEC) immunosensor for S100 calcium-binding protein B with by far the most promising detection activities. This work may open a new venue to unlock the great potential of C60 in PEC biosensing with excellent performances.
关键词： photoelectrochemical immunosensor,S100 calcium-binding protein B,Nanobodies,metal-organic framework,C60
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04