Switching protein metalloporphyrin binding specificity by design from iron to fluorogenic zinc.

Autor: Bowen BJ; School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. jonesdd@cardiff.ac.uk., McGarrity AR, Szeto JA, Pudney CR, Jones DD
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) [Chem Commun (Camb)] 2020 Apr 21; Vol. 56 (31), pp. 4308-4311. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Mar 18.
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc00596g
Abstrakt: Metalloporphyrins play important roles in areas ranging from biology to nanoscience. Using computational design, we converted metalloporphyrin specificity of cytochrome b 562 from iron to fluorogenic zinc. The new variant had a near total preference for zinc representing a switch in specificity, which greatly enhanced the negligible aqueous fluorescence of free ZnPP in vitro and in vivo.
Databáze: MEDLINE