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Protein kinases are crucial components of intracellular signaling pathways which transmit signals by phosphorylation of downstream targets, altering their function. Efficient signal transduction requires precise kinase regulation within specific biological contexts, making tools that allow study of their dynamics in situ critical for understanding kinase function. Highlighted in this article is the design of genetically-encodable, FRET-based kinase biosensors with examples of their implementation to study kinase regulation in live biological contexts with high spatial and temporal resolution. 相似文献
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Fluorescent biosensors of protein function 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Fluorescent biosensors allow researchers to image and quantify protein activity and small molecule signals in living cells with high spatial and temporal resolution. Genetically encoded sensors are coded by a DNA sequence and hence constructed entirely out of amino acids. These biosensors typically utilize light-emitting proteins, such as derivatives of the green fluorescent protein (GFP), and have been developed for a wide range of small molecules and enzyme activities. Fluorescent biosensors can be genetically targeted to distinct locations within cells, such as organelles and membranes. This feature facilitates elucidation of how protein activities and cellular signals are modulated in different regions of the cell. Improvements in the dynamic range and robustness of sensors have enabled high throughput screening for molecules that act as agonists or antagonists of protein function. 相似文献
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Thimann KV 《Plant physiology》1974,54(4):450-453
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Future directions in plant hormone research are discussed, with particular reference to the regulation of hormone biosynthesis, hormone perception, and signal transduction. 相似文献
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Nina Senutovitch Lawrence Vernetti Robert Boltz Richard DeBiasio Albert Gough D Lansing Taylor 《Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.)》2015,240(6):795-808
This mini-review discusses the evolution of fluorescence as a tool to study living cells and tissues in vitro and the present role of fluorescent protein biosensors (FPBs) in microphysiological systems (MPSs). FPBs allow the measurement of temporal and spatial dynamics of targeted cellular events involved in normal and perturbed cellular assay systems and MPSs in real time. FPBs evolved from fluorescent analog cytochemistry (FAC) that permitted the measurement of the dynamics of purified proteins covalently labeled with environmentally insensitive fluorescent dyes and then incorporated into living cells, as well as a large list of diffusible fluorescent probes engineered to measure environmental changes in living cells. In parallel, a wide range of fluorescence microscopy methods were developed to measure the chemical and molecular activities of the labeled cells, including ratio imaging, fluorescence lifetime, total internal reflection, 3D imaging, including super-resolution, as well as high-content screening. FPBs evolved from FAC by combining environmentally sensitive fluorescent dyes with proteins in order to monitor specific physiological events such as post-translational modifications, production of metabolites, changes in various ion concentrations, and the dynamic interaction of proteins with defined macromolecules in time and space within cells. Original FPBs involved the engineering of fluorescent dyes to sense specific activities when covalently attached to particular domains of the targeted protein. The subsequent development of fluorescent proteins (FPs), such as the green fluorescent protein, dramatically accelerated the adoption of studying living cells, since the genetic “labeling” of proteins became a relatively simple method that permitted the analysis of temporal–spatial dynamics of a wide range of proteins. Investigators subsequently engineered the fluorescence properties of the FPs for environmental sensitivity that, when combined with targeted proteins/peptides, created a new generation of FPBs. Examples of FPBs that are useful in MPS are presented, including the design, testing, and application in a liver MPS. 相似文献
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Infectious diseases caused by pathogens have become a life-threatening problem for millions of people around the world in recent years. Therefore, the need of efficient, fast, low-cost and user-friendly biosensing systems to monitor pathogen has increased enormously in the last few years. This paper presents an overview of different fluorescent labels and the utilization of fluorescence-based biosensor techniques for rapid, direct, sensitive and real-time identification of bacteria. In these biosensors, organic dyes, nanomaterials and rare-earth elements are playing an increasing role in the design of biosensing systems with an interest for applications in bacterial analysis. 相似文献
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V. V. Roshchina V. A. Yashin I. M. Vikhlyantsev 《Biochemistry (Moscow) Supplemental Series A: Membrane and Cell Biology》2012,6(1):105-112
Possibilities of fluorescent microscopic single-cell analysis on plant microspores as biosensors for study of chemosignaling
involving neurotransmitters and mechanisms of action of fluorescent medicinal compounds—antagonists of neurotransmitters were
studied on some examples. By methods of luminescence microscopy, microspectrofluorimetry and laser scanning confocal microscopy
using as an example field horsetail Equisetum arvense microspores, the penetration of these compounds into the cell and associate it with individual compartments (estimated as
the changes in their autofluorescence) has been analyzed. Fluorescent in blue antagonists of neurotransmitters d-tubocurarine, yohimbine and azulene (blockers of cholinoreceptor, adrenoreceptor, and histamine receptor, respectively) decreased
the number of the E. arvense cells with red fluorescence. Tubocurarine and yohimbine bound to the cellular surface and did not penetrate into the cells.
Azulene was found both on the cell surface and inside cells, demonstrating blue (excitation 360–380 nm) or green (excitation
420 nm) fluorescence of DNA-containing organelles. The effects of lipophilic (lecithin and amphotericin B) and proteinous
(albumin, enzyme cholinesterase, cytoskeleton proteins actin, myosin, and titin) compounds on the manifestation of the effects
of the neurotransmitters and antagonist d-tubocurarine have been shown. The intensity of the red light at 680 nm, has evolved in many variants. Most notable was the
decline of the emission in the presence of albumin and cholinesterase as compared with the action of dopamine itself. After
the addition of the cytoskeleton proteins and cholinesterase to the medium, the decrease of red fluorescence intensity, usually
induced by d-tubocurarine, was not observed. 相似文献
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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) with fluorescent proteins is a powerful method for detection of protein-protein interactions, enzyme activities and small molecules in the intracellular milieu. Aided by a new violet-excitable yellow-fluorescing variant of Aequorea victoria GFP, we developed dual FRET-based caspase-3 biosensors. Owing to their distinct excitation profiles, each FRET biosensor can be ratiometrically imaged in the presence of the other. 相似文献
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A plant tissue biosensor associated with flow injection analysis is proposed to determine epinephrine in pharmaceutical samples. The polyphenol oxidase enzymes present in the fibers of a palm tree fruits (Livistona chinensis), catalyses the oxidation of epinephrine to epinephrinequinone as a primary product. This product is then electrochemically reduced (at −0.10 V versus Ag/AgClsat) on the biosensor surface and the resulting current is used for the quantification of epinephrine. The biosensor provides a linear response for epinephrine in the concentration range from 5.0 × 10−5 to 3.5 × 10−4 mol l−1. The limit of detection estimated for this interval was 1.5 × 10−5 mol l−1 and the correlation coefficient of 0.998, working under a flow rate of 2.0 ml min−1 and using a sample loop of 100 μl. The repeatability (R.S.D. for 10 consecutive determinations of a 3.0 × 10−4 mol l−1 epinephrine solution) was 3.1%. The results obtained by the method here proposed were compared with the official UV spectrophotometric procedure and also using a plant tissue reactor. The responses obtained with the proposed strategies were in good agreement with both ways of analyses, whereas the values obtained by the official spectrophotometric method was strongly affected by benzoic acid, present in the formulation of pharmaceutical product utilized for inhalation. Such favorable results obtained with the carbon paste biosensor or utilizing the bioreactor, joined with the simplicity of its preparation turns these procedures very attractive for epinephrine quantification in pharmaceutical products. 相似文献
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Danny Hamers Laura van Voorst Vader Jan Willem Borst Joachim Goedhart 《Protoplasma》2014,251(2):333-347
Genetically encoded biosensors are increasingly used in visualising signalling processes in different organisms. Sensors based on green fluorescent protein technology are providing a great opportunity for using Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) as a tool that allows for monitoring dynamic processes in living cells. The development of these FRET biosensors requires careful selection of fluorophores, substrates and recognition domains. In this review, we will discuss recent developments, strategies to create and optimise FRET biosensors and applications of FRET-based biosensors for use in the two major eukaryotic kingdoms and elaborate on different methods for FRET detection. 相似文献
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《Biosensors》1986,2(4):221-233
Biocatalytic sensors using plant tissue materials in conjunction with electrochemical elements offer an alternative to biosensors based on isolated enzymes. In favorable cases, such plant based sensors show attractive analytical properties in addition to low cost, simplicity of construction, and reduced co-factor requirements. A review of the current state of the art is provided along with some previously unpublished examples of new biosensors using plant tissue materials. 相似文献
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May C. Morris 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics》2013,1834(7):1387-1395
One of the challenges of modern biology and medicine is to visualize biomolecules in their natural environment, in real-time and in a non-invasive fashion, so as to gain insight into their physiological behavior and highlight alterations in pathological settings, which will enable to devise appropriate therapeutic strategies. Fluorescent biosensors constitute a class of imaging agents which have provided major insights into the function and regulation of enzymes in their cellular context. GFP-based reporters and genetically-encoded FRET biosensors, have been successfully applied to study protein kinases in living cells with high spatial and temporal resolution. In parallel, combined efforts in fluorescence chemistry and in chemical biology have enabled the design of non-genetic, polypeptide biosensors coupled to small synthetic fluorescent probes, which have been applied to monitor protein kinase activities in vitro and in more complex biological samples, with an equally successful outcome. From a biomedical perspective, fluorescent biosensor technology is well suited to development of diagnostic approaches, for monitoring disease progression and for evaluating response to therapeutics. Moreover it constitutes an attractive technology for drug discovery programs, for high content, high throughput screening assays, to assess the potency of new hits and optimize lead compounds, whilst also serving to characterize drugs developed through rational design. This review describes the utility and versatility of fluorescence biosensor technology to probe protein kinases with a specific focus on CDK/cyclin biosensors we have developed to probe abundance, activity and conformation. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Inhibitors of Protein Kinases (2012). 相似文献
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Over the last decades, cholinesterase (ChE) biosensors have emerged as an ultra sensitive and rapid technique for toxicity analysis in environmental monitoring, food and quality control. These systems have the potential to complement or replace the classical analytical methods by simplifying or eliminating sample preparation protocols and making field testing easier and faster with significant decrease in costs per analysis. Over the years, engineering of more sensitive ChE enzymes, development of more reliable immobilization protocols and progress in the area of microelectronics could allow ChE biosensors to be competitive for field analysis and extend their applications to multianalyte screening, development of small, portable instrumentations for rapid toxicity testing, and detectors in chromatographic systems. In this paper, we will review the research efforts over the last 20 years in fabricating AChE biosensors and the recent trends and challenges encounter once the sensor is used outside research laboratory for in situ real sample applications. The review will discuss the generations of cholinesterase sensors with their advantages and limitations, the existing electrode configurations and fabrication techniques and their applications for toxicity monitoring. We will focus on low-cost electrochemical sensors and the approaches used for enzyme immobilization. Recent works for achieving high sensitivity and selectivity are also discussed. 相似文献