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Intrabody-based FRET probe to visualize endogenous histone acetylation.


ABSTRACT: Post-translational histone modifications are major regulators of gene expression. However, conventional immunoassays do not provide sufficient information regarding their spatial and temporal dynamic changes. Fluorescence/Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based probes are capable of monitoring the dynamic changes associated with histone modifications in real-time by measuring the balance between histone-modifying enzyme activities. Recently, a genetically encoded histone-modification fluorescent probe using a single-chain variable region (scFv) fragment of a specific antibody was developed. The probe, modification-specific intracellular antibody, is capable of monitoring histone-acetylation levels in both cultured cells and living organisms based on the ratio of fluorescence intensities between the cell nucleus and cytoplasm. In this study, we constructed a FRET probe composed of yellow fluorescent protein attached at the N-terminus of an acetyl H3K9-specific scFv, tethered to a cyan fluorescent protein. When the FRET probe was expressed in human cells, both FRET efficiency and fluorescence intensity in the nucleus increased following histone-deacetylase inhibitor treatment. Using these two parameters, endogenous histone-acetylation levels were quantified over a high dynamic range. This probe provides a simple approach to quantify spatial and temporal dynamic changes in histone acetylation.

SUBMITTER: Chung CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6629662 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Intrabody-based FRET probe to visualize endogenous histone acetylation.

Chung Chan-I CI   Sato Yuko Y   Ohmuro-Matsuyama Yuki Y   Machida Shinichi S   Kurumizaka Hitoshi H   Kimura Hiroshi H   Ueda Hiroshi H  

Scientific reports 20190715 1


Post-translational histone modifications are major regulators of gene expression. However, conventional immunoassays do not provide sufficient information regarding their spatial and temporal dynamic changes. Fluorescence/Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based probes are capable of monitoring the dynamic changes associated with histone modifications in real-time by measuring the balance between histone-modifying enzyme activities. Recently, a genetically encoded histone-modification fluo  ...[more]

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