Assessing Changes in the Expression Levels of Cell Surface Proteins with a Turn-on Fluorescent Molecular Probe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joydev Hatai ◽  
Pragati Kishore Prasad ◽  
Naama Mankovski ◽  
Noa Oppenheimer ◽  
Tamar Unger ◽  
...  

Tri-nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA)-based fluorescent probes were developed and used to image His-tagged-labelled outer membrane protein C (His-OmpC) in live Escherichia coli. One of these probes was designed to light up...

Author(s):  
Yankel Chekli ◽  
Caroline Peron-Cane ◽  
Dario Dell’Arciprete ◽  
Jean-François Allemand ◽  
Chenge Li ◽  
...  

AbstractBacterial proteins exported to the cell surface play key cellular functions. However, despite the interest to study the localization of surface proteins such as adhesins, transporters or hydrolases, monitoring their dynamics in live imaging remains challenging, due to the limited availability of fluorescent probes remaining functional after secretion. In this work, we used the Escherichia coli intimin and the Listeria monocytogenes InlB invasin as surface exposed scaffolds fused with the recently developed chemogenetic fluorescent reporter protein FAST. Using both membrane permeant (HBR-3,5DM) and non-permeant (HBRAA-3E) fluorogens that fluoresce upon binding to FAST, we demonstrated that fully functional FAST can be exposed at the cell surface and specifically tagged on the external side of the bacterial envelop in both diderm and monoderm bacteria. Our work opens new avenues to study of the organization and dynamics of the bacterial cell surface proteins.


2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Joseph Sahaya Rajan ◽  
T. Chinnappan Santiago ◽  
R. Singaravel ◽  
S. Ignacimuthu

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-702
Author(s):  
J. Joseph Sahaya Rajan ◽  
T. Chinnappan Santiago ◽  
R. Singaravel ◽  
S. Ignacimuthu

2004 ◽  
Vol 186 (9) ◽  
pp. 2594-2602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel A. de Pedro ◽  
Christoph G. Grünfelder ◽  
Heinz Schwarz

ABSTRACT The polar regions of the Escherichia coli murein sacculus are metabolically inert and stable in time. Because the sacculus and the outer membrane are tightly associated, we investigated whether polar inert murein could restrict the mobility of other cell envelope elements. Cells were covalently labeled with a fluorescent reagent, chased in dye-free medium, and observed by microscopy. Fluorescent material was more efficiently retained at the cell poles than at any other location. The boundary between high and low fluorescence intensity areas was rather sharp. Labeled material consisted mostly of cell envelope proteins, among them the free and murein-bound forms of Braun's lipoprotein. Our results indicate that the mobility of at least some cell envelope proteins is restrained at regions in correspondence with underlying areas of inert murein.


1979 ◽  
Vol 169 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loek van Alphen ◽  
Ben Lugtenberg ◽  
Ria van Boxtel ◽  
Anne-Marie Hack ◽  
Cornelis Verhoef ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1194-1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Wang ◽  
Qingfeng Guan ◽  
Xiumin Wang ◽  
Da Teng ◽  
Ruoyu Mao ◽  
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