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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2020

Photoswitching mechanism of a fluorescent protein revealed by time-resolved crystallography and transient absorption spectroscopy.

Franck Fieschi
Pauline Macheboeuf
Shigeki Owada
Makina Yabashi
Marco Cammarata

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Reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins (RSFPs) serve as markers in advanced fluorescence imaging. Photoswitching from a non-fluorescent off-state to a fluorescent on-state involves trans-to-cis chromophore isomerization and proton transfer. Whereas excited-state events on the ps timescale have been structurally characterized, conformational changes on slower timescales remain elusive. Here we describe the off-to-on photoswitching mechanism in the RSFP rsEGFP2 by using a combination of time-resolved serial crystallography at an X-ray free-electron laser and ns-resolved pump-probe UV-visible spectroscopy. Ten ns after photoexcitation, the crystal structure features a chromophore that isomerized from trans to cis but the surrounding pocket features conformational differences compared to the final on-state. Spectroscopy identifies the chromophore in this ground-state photo-intermediate as being protonated. Deprotonation then occurs on the μs timescale and correlates with a conformational change of the conserved neighbouring histidine. Together with a previous excited-state study, our data allow establishing a detailed mechanism of off-to-on photoswitching in rsEGFP2.
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hal-02498645 , version 1 (28-09-2020)

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Joyce Woodhouse, Gabriela Nass Kovacs, Nicolas Coquelle, Lucas M. Uriarte, Virgile Adam, et al.. Photoswitching mechanism of a fluorescent protein revealed by time-resolved crystallography and transient absorption spectroscopy.. Nature Communications, 2020, 11 (1), pp.741. ⟨10.1038/s41467-020-14537-0⟩. ⟨hal-02498645⟩
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