Kinetic and structural characterization of the self-labeling protein tags HaloTag7, SNAP-tag, and CLIP-tag

Autor: Jochen Reinstein, Jana Tünnermann, Guillaume Gotthard, Nicole Mertes, Stefanie Kühn, Ulrike Uhrig, Lin Xue, Kai Johnsson, Timo Tänzer, Jonas Wilhelm, Julien Hiblot, Miroslaw Tarnawski, Julie Karpenko
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Biochemistry
Biochemistry, 60 (33)
'Biochemistry ', vol: 60, pages: 2560-2575 (2021)
ISSN: 0006-2960
1520-4995
Popis: The self-labeling protein tags (SLPs) HaloTag7, SNAP-tag, and CLIP-tag allow the covalent labeling of fusion proteins with synthetic molecules for applications in bioimaging and biotechnology. To guide the selection of an SLP-substrate pair and provide guidelines for the design of substrates, we report a systematic and comparative study of the labeling kinetics and substrate specificities of HaloTag7, SNAP-tag, and CLIP-tag. HaloTag7 reaches almost diffusion-limited labeling rate constants with certain rhodamine substrates, which are more than 2 orders of magnitude higher than those of SNAP-tag for the corresponding substrates. SNAP-tag labeling rate constants, however, are less affected by the structure of the label than those of HaloTag7, which vary over 6 orders of magnitude for commonly employed substrates. Determining the crystal structures of HaloTag7 and SNAP-tag labeled with fluorescent substrates allowed us to rationalize their substrate preferences. We also demonstrate how these insights can be exploited to design substrates with improved labeling kinetics.
Biochemistry, 60 (33)
ISSN:0006-2960
ISSN:1520-4995
Databáze: OpenAIRE