Site‐Specific Antibody Fragment Conjugates for Reversible Staining in Fluorescence Microscopy

Autor: Ksenia Kolobynina, Christian P. R. Hackenberger, Heinrich Leonhardt, Jonathan Schwach, Katharina Brandstetter, Hartmann Harz, Philipp Ochtrop, M. Cristina Cardoso, Marcus Gerlach, Andreas Stengl, Jonas Helma
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Chembiochem
ISSN: 1439-7633
1439-4227
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000727
Popis: Antibody conjugates have taken a great leap forward as tools in basic and applied molecular life sciences that was enabled by the development of chemoselective reactions for the site‐specific modification of proteins. Antibody‐oligonucleotide conjugates combine the antibody's target specificity with the reversible, sequence‐encoded binding properties of oligonucleotides like DNAs or peptide nucleic acids (PNAs), allowing sequential imaging of large numbers of targets in a single specimen. In this report, we use the Tub‐tag® technology in combination with Cu‐catalyzed azide‐alkyne cycloaddition for the site‐specific conjugation of single DNA and PNA strands to an eGFP‐binding nanobody. We show binding of the conjugate to recombinant eGFP and subsequent sequence‐specific annealing of fluorescently labelled imager strands. Furthermore, we reversibly stain eGFP‐tagged proteins in human cells, thus demonstrating the suitability of our conjugation strategy to generate antibody‐oligonucleotides for reversible immunofluorescence imaging.
Protein‐oligonucleotide conjugates. We present a novel strategy for the efficient and site‐specific generation of nanobody‐oligonucleotide conjugates in a 1 : 1 stoichiometry by Tub‐tag‐mediated conjugation. We show a proof‐of‐concept that these conjugates can readily be used for reversible staining in confocal fluorescence microscopy.
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