Quantitative real-time kinetics of optogenetic proteins CRY2 and CIB1/N using single-molecule tools

Yi Cui, Samrat Roy Choudhury, Joseph Irudayaraj

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Abstract

In this work we evaluate the interaction of two optogenetic protein variants (CIB1, CIBN) with their complementary protein CRY2 by single-molecule tools in cell-free extracts. After validating the blue light induced co-localization of CRY2 and CIB1/N by Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) in live cells, a fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) based method was developed to quantitatively determine the in vitro association of the extracted proteins. Our experiments suggest that CIB1, in comparison with CIBN, possesses a better coupling efficiency with CRY2 due to its intact protein structure and lower diffusion rate within 300 s detection window.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)58-60
Number of pages3
JournalAnalytical Biochemistry
Volume458
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • CIB1
  • CIBN
  • CRY2
  • FCS
  • FRET
  • Optogenetic protein

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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