CBCRs are presented as bacterial photoreceptor-related scaffolds with NIR-relevant absorbance properties. The review emphasizes them as novel templates for future NIR FP engineering.
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Cyanobacteriochromes
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CBCRs
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some cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) ... possess the near-infrared (NIR) absorbance spectra that make them promising molecular templates to design NIR fluorescent proteins (FPs) and biosensors ... engineering approaches to develop NIR FPs from the novel natural templates such as CBCRs
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The review compares phenotypes of current BphP-based near-infrared fluorescent proteins with fluorescent proteins derived from cyanobacteriochromes and allophycocyanins.
The review provides guidelines for selecting existing near-infrared fluorescent proteins and for engineering new near-infrared fluorescent proteins from novel templates such as cyanobacteriochromes.
Bacterial phytochromes, some cyanobacteriochromes, and allophycocyanins are promising molecular templates for designing near-infrared fluorescent proteins and biosensors.