Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

pHmScarlet is a pH-sensitive red fluorescent protein to monitor exocytosis docking and fusion steps

  • Anyuan Liu,
  • Xiaoshuai Huang,
  • Wenting He,
  • Fudong Xue,
  • Yanrui Yang,
  • Jiajia Liu,
  • Liangyi Chen,
  • Lin Yuan,
  • Pingyong Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21666-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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A number of pH-sensitive fluorescent proteins exist which enable monitoring of some but not all steps of exocytosis. Here the authors engineer a bright, photostable red pH-sensitive fluorescent protein, pHmScarlet, to allow visualisation of the docking and fusion events of exocytosis.