Engineering genetically encoded FRET-based nanosensors for real time display of arsenic (As) dynamics in living cells.

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Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India.

Published: August 2019

Arsenic poisoning has been a major concern that causes severe toxicological damages. Therefore, intricate and inclusive understanding of arsenic flux rates is required to ascertain the cellular concentration and establish the carcinogenetic mechanism of this toxicant at real time. The lack of sufficiently sensitive sensing systems has hampered research in this area. In this study, we constructed a fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based nanosensor, named SenALiB (Sensor for Arsenic Linked Blackfoot disease) which contains a metalloregulatory arsenic-binding protein (ArsR) as the As sensing element inserted between the FRET pair enhanced cyan fluorescent protein (ECFP) and Venus. SenALiB takes advantage of the ratiometic FRET readout which measures arsenic with high specificity and selectivity. SenALiB offers rapid detection response, is stable to pH changes and provides highly accurate, real-time optical readout in cell-based assays. SenALiB-676n with a binding constant (K) of 0.676 × 10 M is the most efficient affinity mutant and can be a versatile tool for dynamic measurement of arsenic concentration in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes in vivo in a non-invasive manner.

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