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ArticleNature communications2025

Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging.

Jihwan Lee, Shujuan Lai, Shuyuan Yang, Shiqun Zhao, Francisco A Blanco, Anne C Lyons, Raquel Merino-Urteaga, John F Ahrens, Nathan A Nguyen, Haixin Liu and 8 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Jihwan Lee *Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5426-2765
Shujuan Lai *Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1249-4258
Shuyuan YangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5977-9782
Shiqun ZhaoState Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Biomedical Imaging Center, School of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Francisco A BlancoDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1228-8625
Anne C LyonsShu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-4685-1136
Raquel Merino-UrteagaHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-9367-0435
John F AhrensDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1251-1153
Nathan A NguyenDepartment of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-2975-0554
Haixin LiuDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3217-856X
Zhuohe LiuDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1818-646X
Gerard G LambertDepartment of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Nathan C ShanerDepartment of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Liangyi ChenState Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Biomedical Imaging Center, School of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1270-7321
Kimberley F ToliasDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2092-920X
Jin ZhangShu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7145-7823
Taekjip HaHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-6258
François St-PierreDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. stpierre@bcm.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8618-4135

Funding

Tumor BiologyP30CA125123 · NCI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Suzanne AW Fuqua · 2007 to 2026
$73.9M
Live-cell Activity Architecture in CancerR35CA197622 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Jin Zhang · 2015 to 2026
$11.2M
Mechanisms of Compartmentalized cAMP SignalingR01DK073368 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Jin Zhang · 2006 to 2026
$7.6M
Molecular Engineering of Natural Light-Gated Chloride Channels for Optogenetic InhibitionU01NS118288 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SPUDICH, JOHN LEE, ST-PIERRE, FRANCOIS · 2020 to 2023
$5.2M
ENABLING SUBMILLISECOND-TIMESCALE TWO-PHOTON RECORDING OF VOLTAGE DYNAMICS IN THREE DIMENSIONS IN VIVOU01NS133971 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Jacob Reimer, Francois St-Pierre · 2023 to 2026
$4.0M
Single Molecule Studies of Nucleic Acids RemodelingR35GM122569 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Taekjip Ha · 2017 to 2026
$3.5M
Developing an Optogenetics Technology Based on Natural Potassium-selective ChannelrhodopsinsRF1NS133657 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI SPUDICH, JOHN LEE, ST-PIERRE, FRANCOIS · 2023 to 2023
$3.1M
Engineering photostable fluorescent proteins and biosensors using transcriptomic mining and massive-throughput single-cell screeningR01EB032854 · NIBIB · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI ST-PIERRE, FRANCOIS · 2022 to 2025
$2.4M
Signaling Mechanisms Regulating Rho GTPase-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity Underlying Memory in Health and DiseaseRF1NS062829 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI TOLIAS, KIMBERLY R · 2022 to 2022
$1.9M
BD Biosciences Special Order LSRIIS10RR024574 · NCRR · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI LUMPKIN, ELLEN A · 2009 to 2009
$430k
Role of the Rac1-GEF Tiam1 in Synaptic Plasticity and Hippocampal-Dependent Learning and MemoryF31NS122427 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BLANCO, FRANCISCO ALEJANDRO · 2021 to 2023
$140k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA125123NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197622NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR024574NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB032854NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK073368NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122569NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS122427NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS062829NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS133657NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS118288NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS133971
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorescent proteins are indispensable molecular tools for visualizing biological structures and processes, but their limited photostability restricts the duration of dynamic imaging experiments. Yellow fluorescent proteins (YFPs), in particular, photobleach rapidly. Here, we introduce mGold2s and mGold2t, YFPs with up to 25-fold greater photostability than mVenus and mCitrine, two commonly used YFPs, while maintaining comparable brightness. These variants were identified using a high-throughput pooled single-cell platform, simultaneously screening for high brightness and photostability. Compared with our previous benchmark, mGold, the mGold2 variants display a ~4-fold increase in photostability without sacrificing brightness. mGold2s and mGold2t extend imaging durations across diverse modalities, including widefield, total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF), super-resolution, single-molecule, and laser-scanning confocal microscopy. When incorporated into fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based biosensors, the proposed YFPs enable more reliable, prolonged imaging of dynamic cellular processes. Overall, the enhanced photostability of mGold2s and mGold2t enables high-sensitivity imaging of subcellular structures and cellular activity over extended periods, broadening the scope and precision of biological imaging.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsLuminescent ProteinsAnimalsBiosensing TechniquesFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferHumansMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, FluorescencePhotobleachingBacterial ProteinsLuminescent Proteinsyellow fluorescent protein, Bacteria

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PMID40185748
PMCPMC11971446

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