PMID- 32344594 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210201 LR - 20210201 IS - 1422-0067 (Electronic) IS - 1422-0067 (Linking) VI - 21 IP - 8 DP - 2020 Apr 24 TI - FGCaMP7, an Improved Version of Fungi-Based Ratiometric Calcium Indicator for In Vivo Visualization of Neuronal Activity. LID - 10.3390/ijms21083012 [doi] LID - 3012 AB - Genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) have become a widespread tool for the visualization of neuronal activity. As compared to popular GCaMP GECIs, the FGCaMP indicator benefits from calmodulin and M13-peptide from the fungi Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus fumigatus, which prevent its interaction with the intracellular environment. However, FGCaMP exhibits a two-phase fluorescence behavior with the variation of calcium ion concentration, has moderate sensitivity in neurons (as compared to the GCaMP6s indicator), and has not been fully characterized in vitro and in vivo. To address these limitations, we developed an enhanced version of FGCaMP, called FGCaMP7. FGCaMP7 preserves the ratiometric phenotype of FGCaMP, with a 3.1-fold larger ratiometric dynamic range in vitro. FGCaMP7 demonstrates 2.7- and 8.7-fold greater photostability compared to mEGFP and mTagBFP2 fluorescent proteins in vitro, respectively. The ratiometric response of FGCaMP7 is 1.6- and 1.4-fold higher, compared to the intensiometric response of GCaMP6s, in non-stimulated and stimulated neuronal cultures, respectively. We reveal the inertness of FGCaMP7 to the intracellular environment of HeLa cells using its truncated version with a deleted M13-like peptide; in contrast to the similarly truncated variant of GCaMP6s. We characterize the crystal structure of the parental FGCaMP indicator. Finally, we test the in vivo performance of FGCaMP7 in mouse brain using a two-photon microscope and an NVista miniscope; and in zebrafish using two-color ratiometric confocal imaging. FAU - Barykina, Natalia V AU - Barykina NV AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5835-8388 AD - Laboratory for Neurobiology of Memory, P.K. Anokhin Research Institute of Normal Physiology, 125315 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Sotskov, Vladimir P AU - Sotskov VP AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1729-5744 AD - Institute for Advanced Brain Studies, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Gruzdeva, Anna M AU - Gruzdeva AM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5691-9057 AD - Institute for Advanced Brain Studies, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia. AD - Complex of NBICS Technologies, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia. AD - Sensorimotor Control Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany. FAU - Wu, You Kure AU - Wu YK AD - Sensorimotor Control Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany. FAU - Portugues, Ruben AU - Portugues R AD - Sensorimotor Control Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany. AD - Institute of Neuroscience, Technical University of Munich, 80802 Munich, Germany. AD - Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany. FAU - Subach, Oksana M AU - Subach OM AD - Complex of NBICS Technologies, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Chefanova, Elizaveta S AU - Chefanova ES AD - Department of NBIC-technologies, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 123182 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Plusnin, Viktor V AU - Plusnin VV AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9784-8283 AD - Complex of NBICS Technologies, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia. AD - Department of NBIC-technologies, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 123182 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Ivashkina, Olga I AU - Ivashkina OI AD - Laboratory for Neurobiology of Memory, P.K. Anokhin Research Institute of Normal Physiology, 125315 Moscow, Russia. AD - Institute for Advanced Brain Studies, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia. AD - Complex of NBICS Technologies, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Anokhin, Konstantin V AU - Anokhin KV AD - Laboratory for Neurobiology of Memory, P.K. Anokhin Research Institute of Normal Physiology, 125315 Moscow, Russia. AD - Institute for Advanced Brain Studies, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Vlaskina, Anna V AU - Vlaskina AV AD - Complex of NBICS Technologies, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Korzhenevskiy, Dmitry A AU - Korzhenevskiy DA AD - Complex of NBICS Technologies, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Nikolaeva, Alena Y AU - Nikolaeva AY AD - Complex of NBICS Technologies, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Boyko, Konstantin M AU - Boyko KM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8229-189X AD - Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Rakitina, Tatiana V AU - Rakitina TV AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3096-8659 AD - Complex of NBICS Technologies, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia. AD - Laboratory of Hormonal Regulation Proteins, M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Varizhuk, Anna M AU - Varizhuk AM AD - Department of Biophysics, Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, 119435 Moscow, Russia. AD - Department of Biophysics, Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, 119435 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Pozmogova, Galina E AU - Pozmogova GE AD - Department of Biophysics, Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, 119435 Moscow, Russia. AD - Department of Biophysics, Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, 119435 Moscow, Russia. FAU - Subach, Fedor V AU - Subach FV AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2720-7821 AD - Complex of NBICS Technologies, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Russia. LA - eng GR - numero sign1360 of 25.06.2019/internal grant of the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute/ GR - 16-15-10323/Russian Science Foundation/ GR - 19-04-00395/Russian Foundation for Basic Research/ GR - 17-00-00215/Russian Foundation for Basic Research/ GR - 20-015-00427/Russian Foundation for Basic Research/ GR - 19-315-80020/Russian Foundation for Basic Research/ GR - 18-34-00640/Russian Foundation for Basic Research/ GR - 17-29-07083/Russian Foundation for Basic Research/ GR - to K.M.B./Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation/ GR - 19-34-70004/Russian Foundation for Basic Research/ GR - 075-15-2019-1669/the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation/ GR - EXC 2145 SyNergy - ID 390857198/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200424 PL - Switzerland TA - Int J Mol Sci JT - International journal of molecular sciences JID - 101092791 RN - 0 (Calcium-Binding Proteins) RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) SB - IM MH - Action Potentials MH - Animals MH - Calcium/*metabolism MH - Calcium-Binding Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Fungi/genetics MH - *Gene Expression MH - Genes, Reporter MH - HeLa Cells MH - Humans MH - Mice MH - Microscopy, Fluorescence MH - Models, Molecular MH - *Molecular Imaging/methods MH - Neurons/cytology/*metabolism MH - Protein Conformation MH - Protein Engineering MH - Structure-Activity Relationship MH - Visual Cortex/physiology PMC - PMC7215472 OTO - NOTNLM OT - FGCaMP OT - FGCaMP7 OT - calcium imaging OT - crystal structure OT - genetically encoded calcium indicator OT - protein engineering COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results. EDAT- 2020/04/30 06:00 MHDA- 2021/02/02 06:00 PMCR- 2020/04/01 CRDT- 2020/04/30 06:00 PHST- 2020/04/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/04/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/04/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/04/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/04/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/02/02 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ijms21083012 [pii] AID - ijms-21-03012 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ijms21083012 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Apr 24;21(8):3012. doi: 10.3390/ijms21083012.