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PH responsive Janus-like supramolecular fusion proteins for functional protein delivery
Kuan, Seah Ling,Ng, David Y. W.,Wu, Yuzhou,Foertsch, Christina,Barth, Holger,Doroshenko, Mikheil,Koynov, Kaloian,Meier, Christoph,Weil, Tanja
, p. 17254 - 17257 (2013)
A facile, noncovalent solid-phase immobilization platform is described to assemble Janus-like supramolecular fusion proteins that are responsive to external stimuli. A chemically postmodified transporter protein, DHSA, is fused with (imino)biotinylated cargo proteins via an avidin adaptor with a high degree of spatial control. Notably, the derived heterofusion proteins are able to cross cellular membranes, dissociate at acidic pH due to the iminobiotin linker and preserve the enzymatic activity of the cargo proteins β-galactosidase and the enzymatic subunit of Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin. The mix-and-match strategy described herein opens unique opportunities to access macromolecular architectures of high structural definition and biological activity, thus complementing protein ligation and recombinant protein expression techniques.
Detection of alkaline phosphatase using surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy
Ruan, Chuanmin,Wang, Wei,Gu, Baohua
, p. 3379 - 3384 (2006)
A new approach was developed to detect the activity of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) enzyme at ultralow concentrations using a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technique. The approach is based on the use of gold nanoparticles as a SERS material whereas 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl phosphate (BCIP) is used as a substrate of ALP. The enzymatic hydrolysis of BCIP led to the formation of indigo dye derivatives, which were found to be highly SERS active. For the first time, we were able to detect ALP at a concentration of ~4 × 10-15 M or at single-molecule levels when ALP was incubated with BCIP for 1 h in the Tris-HCl buffer. The same technique also was successfully employed to detect surface-immobilized avidin, and a detection limit of 10 ng/mL was achieved. This new technique allows the detection of both free and labeled ALP as a Raman probe in enzyme immunoassays, immunoblotting, and DNA hybridization assays at ultralow concentrations.