Engineering of NEMO as calcium indicators with large dynamics and high sensitivity

Abstract Genetically-encoded calcium indicators (GECI) are indispensable tools for real-time monitoring of intracellular calcium signals and cellular activities in living organisms. Current GECIs face the challenge of sub-optimal peak signal-to-baseline-ratio (SBR) with limited resolution for reporting subtle calcium transients. We report herein the development of a suite of calcium sensors, designated NEMO, with fast kinetics and wide dynamic ranges (>100-fold). NEMO indicators report Ca2+transients with peak SBRs ~20-fold larger than the top-of-the-range GCaMP series. NEMO sensors further enable the quantification of absolution calcium concentration with ratiometric or photochromic imaging. Compared to GCaMPs, NEMOs could detect single action potentials in neurons with a peak SBR two times higher and a median peak SBR four times largerin vivo, thereby outperforming most existing state-of-the-art GECIs. Given their high sensitivity and resolution to report intracellular Ca2+signals, NEMO sensors may find broad applications in monitoring neuronal activities and other Ca2+-modulated physiological processes in both mammals and plants..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Shang, Ziwei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jia-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Wenjia [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Li [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Xiaowen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Liuqing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Tianlu [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Siyao [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jiajing [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Tingting [VerfasserIn]
Xing, Dajun [VerfasserIn]
Gill, Donald L. [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jiejie [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Shi-Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Lijuan [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Yubin [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Ai-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiaohui [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Youjun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2022.08.23.504677

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XBI036967181