Targeted delivery of fluorogenic peptide aptamers into live microalgae by femtosecond laser photoporation at single-cell resolution

Scientific Reports
Takanori MaenoYoichiroh Hosokawa

Abstract

Microalgae-based metabolic engineering has been proven effective for producing valuable substances such as food supplements, pharmaceutical drugs, biodegradable plastics, and biofuels in the past decade. The ability to accurately visualize and quantify intracellular metabolites in live microalgae is essential for efficient metabolic engineering, but remains a major challenge due to the lack of characterization methods. Here we demonstrate it by synthesizing fluorogenic peptide aptamers with specific binding affinity to a target metabolite and delivering them into live microalgae by femtosecond laser photoporation at single-cell resolution. As a proof-of-principle demonstration of our method, we use it to characterize Euglena gracilis, a photosynthetic unicellular motile microalgal species, which is capable of producing paramylon (a carbohydrate granule similar to starch). Specifically, we synthesize a peptide aptamer containing a paramylon-binding fluorescent probe, 7-nitrobenzofurazan, and introduce it into E. gracilis cells one-by-one by suppressing their mobility with mannitol and transiently perforating them with femtosecond laser pulses at 800 nm for photoporation. To demonstrate the method's practical utility in metabolic...Continue Reading

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