Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

A genetically encoded fluorescent biosensor for extracellular l-lactate

  • Yusuke Nasu,
  • Ciaran Murphy-Royal,
  • Yurong Wen,
  • Jordan N. Haidey,
  • Rosana S. Molina,
  • Abhi Aggarwal,
  • Shuce Zhang,
  • Yuki Kamijo,
  • Marie-Eve Paquet,
  • Kaspar Podgorski,
  • Mikhail Drobizhev,
  • Jaideep S. Bains,
  • M. Joanne Lemieux,
  • Grant R. Gordon,
  • Robert E. Campbell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27332-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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l-lactate is an important intercellular energy currency. Here the authors report a genetically encoded biosensor eLACCO1.1 to monitor extracellular l-lactate; they use eLACCO1.1 to image extracellular l-lactate in cultured mammalian cells and brain tissue.