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Frutiger A, Tanno A, Hwu S, Tiefenauer RF, Vörös J, Nakatsuka N. Nonspecific Binding-Fundamental Concepts and Consequences for Biosensing Applications. Chem Rev 2021; 121:8095-8160. [PMID: 34105942 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Nature achieves differentiation of specific and nonspecific binding in molecular interactions through precise control of biomolecules in space and time. Artificial systems such as biosensors that rely on distinguishing specific molecular binding events in a sea of nonspecific interactions have struggled to overcome this issue. Despite the numerous technological advancements in biosensor technologies, nonspecific binding has remained a critical bottleneck due to the lack of a fundamental understanding of the phenomenon. To date, the identity, cause, and influence of nonspecific binding remain topics of debate within the scientific community. In this review, we discuss the evolution of the concept of nonspecific binding over the past five decades based upon the thermodynamic, intermolecular, and structural perspectives to provide classification frameworks for biomolecular interactions. Further, we introduce various theoretical models that predict the expected behavior of biosensors in physiologically relevant environments to calculate the theoretical detection limit and to optimize sensor performance. We conclude by discussing existing practical approaches to tackle the nonspecific binding challenge in vitro for biosensing platforms and how we can both address and harness nonspecific interactions for in vivo systems.
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- Andreas Frutiger
- Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland
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Zhao H, Boyd LF, Schuck P. Measuring Protein Interactions by Optical Biosensors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 88:20.2.1-20.2.25. [PMID: 28369667 DOI: 10.1002/cpps.31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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This unit gives an introduction to the basic techniques of optical biosensing for measuring equilibrium and kinetics of reversible protein interactions. Emphasis is placed on description of robust approaches that will provide reliable results with few assumptions. How to avoid the most commonly encountered problems and artifacts is also discussed. © 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Huaying Zhao
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Esseghaier C, Ng A, Zourob M. A novel and rapid assay for HIV-1 protease detection using magnetic bead mediation. Biosens Bioelectron 2013; 41:335-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2012.08.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2012] [Revised: 08/20/2012] [Accepted: 08/22/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Zhao H, Gorshkova II, Fu GL, Schuck P. A comparison of binding surfaces for SPR biosensing using an antibody-antigen system and affinity distribution analysis. Methods 2013; 59:328-35. [PMID: 23270815 PMCID: PMC3840496 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2012.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2012] [Revised: 12/14/2012] [Accepted: 12/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The application of optical biosensors in the study of macromolecular interactions requires immobilization of one binding partner to the surface. It is often highly desirable that the immobilization is uniform and does not affect the thermodynamic and kinetic binding parameters to soluble ligands. To achieve this goal, a variety of sensor surfaces, coupling strategies and surface chemistries are available. Previously, we have introduced a technique for determining the distribution of affinities and kinetic rate constants from families of binding and dissociation traces acquired at different concentrations of soluble ligand. In the present work, we explore how this affinity distribution analysis can be useful in the assessment and optimization of surface immobilization. With this goal, using an antibody-antigen interaction as a model system, we study the activity, thermodynamic and kinetic binding parameters, and heterogeneity of surface sites produced with different commonly used sensor surfaces, at different total surface densities and with direct immobilization or affinity capture.
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- Huaying Zhao
- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, U.S.A
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- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, U.S.A
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- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, U.S.A
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- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, U.S.A
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QCM immunoassay for recombinant cysteine peptidase: A potential protein biomarker for diagnosis of citrus canker. Talanta 2013; 104:193-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2012.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2012] [Revised: 11/01/2012] [Accepted: 11/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Schuck P, Zhao H. The role of mass transport limitation and surface heterogeneity in the biophysical characterization of macromolecular binding processes by SPR biosensing. Methods Mol Biol 2010; 627:15-54. [PMID: 20217612 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-670-2_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This chapter presents an introduction to the kinetic analysis of SPR biosensor data for the determination of affinity and kinetic rate constants of biomolecular interactions between an immobilized and a soluble binding partner. The need to be aware of and critically test the assumptions underlying the analysis models is emphasized and the consequences for the experimental design are discussed. The two most common sources of deviation in SPR surface binding kinetics from the ideal pseudo-first-order binding kinetics of bimolecular reactions are mass transport limitations and the heterogeneity of the surface sites. These problems are intrinsic to the use of a biosensor surface for characterizing interactions. The effect of these factors on the observed binding kinetics, and strategies to account for them are reviewed, both in the context of mathematical data analysis, as well as the design of the experiments and controls.
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- Peter Schuck
- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly, Laboratory of Bioengineering and Physical Science, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Prasad PV, Rani A, Chaube SK, Rohil V, Shrivastav TG. Kinetic analysis of a human chorionic gonadotropin-beta epitope-paratope interaction. Growth Factors 2008; 26:331-42. [PMID: 19012067 DOI: 10.1080/08977190802445354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Kinetics of protein-protein or ligand-ligate interaction has predominantly been studied by optical spectroscopy (particularly fluorescence) and surface plasmon resonance biosensors. Almost all such studies are based on association kinetics between ligand-ligate and suffer from certain methodological and interpretational limitations. Therefore, kinetic analyses of dissociation data of such interactions become indispensable. In the present investigation, the radiolabeled human chorionic gonadotropin-beta ((125)IhCGbeta) was employed as a probe and nitrocellulose (NC) as a solid support to immobilize monoclonal antibody (MAb) G(1)G(10).1. The NC-G(1)G(10).1-(125)IhCGbeta complex (NC(com)) was prepared and the dissociation of radiolabeled hCGbeta was carried out in the presence of excess unlabeled ligate. From the experimental dissociation data under varying ionic strength, dissociation constants (k(- 1)), association constants (k(+1)) and affinity constants (k(a)) were calculated. The values obtained were utilized in exploring the amino acid residues constituting an epitopic region of hCGbeta involved in interaction with the complementary paratope on MAb G(1)G(10).1. Kinetic data of the present study supported our recently published findings [using single step-solid phase radioimmunoassay (SS-SPRIA)] that the core region of hCGbeta epitope consists of Arg (94,95) and Asp (99) while a Lys (104) and a His (106) are in proximity to the core epitopic region. Based on the results of present investigation, we conclude that dissociation kinetics coupled with SS-SPRIA unequivocally provides considerable insight into the study of ligand-ligate interactions and epitope analysis.
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MESH Headings
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/chemistry
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/metabolism
- Antigen-Antibody Complex
- Antigen-Antibody Reactions/immunology
- Binding Sites, Antibody/immunology
- Binding Sites, Antibody/physiology
- Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, Human/chemistry
- Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, Human/immunology
- Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, Human/metabolism
- Collodion
- Epitope Mapping/methods
- Epitopes/chemistry
- Epitopes/immunology
- Epitopes/metabolism
- Humans
- Iodine Radioisotopes
- Kinetics
- Ligands
- Radioimmunoassay
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- Pramod Vishwanath Prasad
- Department of Reproductive Biomedicine, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Munirka, New Delhi 110067, India.
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Egas DA, Wirth MJ. Fundamentals of protein separations: 50 years of nanotechnology, and growing. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (PALO ALTO, CALIF.) 2008; 1:833-855. [PMID: 20636099 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anchem.1.031207.112912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The separation of proteins in biology samples has long been recognized as an important and daunting endeavor that continues to have enormous impact on human health. Today's technology for protein separations has its origins in the early nanotechnology of the 1950s and 1960s, and the methods include immunoassays and other affinity extractions, electrophoresis, and chromatography. What is different today is the need to resolve and identify many low-abundance proteins within complex biological matrices. Multidimensional separations are the rule, high speed is needed, and the separations must be able to work with mass spectrometry for protein identification. Hybrid approaches that combine disparate separation tools (including recognition, electrophoresis, and chromatography) take advantage of the fact that no single class of separation can resolve the proteins in a biological matrix. Protein separations represent a developing area technologically, and understanding the principles of protein separations from a molecular and nanoscale viewpoint will enable today's researchers to invent tomorrow's technology.
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- David A Egas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, USA.
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Svitel J, Boukari H, Van Ryk D, Willson RC, Schuck P. Probing the functional heterogeneity of surface binding sites by analysis of experimental binding traces and the effect of mass transport limitation. Biophys J 2007; 92:1742-58. [PMID: 17158569 PMCID: PMC1796841 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.094615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2006] [Accepted: 11/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Many techniques rely on the binding activity of surface-immobilized proteins, including antibody-based affinity biosensors for the detection of analytes, immunoassays, protein arrays, and surface plasmon resonance biosensors for the study of thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of protein interactions. To study the functional homogeneity of the surface sites and to characterize their binding properties, we have recently proposed a computational tool to determine the distribution of affinity and kinetic rate constants from surface binding progress curves. It is based on modeling the experimentally measured binding signal as a superposition of signals from binding to sites spanning a range of rate and equilibrium constants, with regularization providing the most parsimonious distribution consistent with the data. In the present work, we have expanded the scope of this approach to include a compartment-like transport step, which can describe competitive binding to different surface sites in a zone of depleted analyte close to the sensor surface. This approach addresses a major difficulty in the analysis of surface binding where both transport limitation as well as unknown surface site heterogeneity may be present. In addition to the kinetic binding parameters of the ensemble of surface sites, it can provide estimates for effective transport rate constants. Using antibody-antigen interactions as experimental model systems, we studied the effects of the immobilization matrix and of the analyte flow-rate on the effective transport rate constant. Both were experimentally observed to influence mass transport. The approximate description of mass transport by a compartment model becomes critical when applied to strongly transport-controlled data, and we examined the limitations of this model. In the presence of only moderate mass transport limitation the compartment model provides a good description, but this approximation breaks down for strongly transport-limited surface binding. In the latter regime, we report experimental evidence for the formation of gradients within the sensing volume of the evanescent field biosensor used.
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- Juraj Svitel
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Tsoi PY, Yang M. Surface plasmon resonance study of the molecular recognition between polymerase and DNA containing various mismatches and conformational changes of DNA-protein complexes. Biosens Bioelectron 2004; 19:1209-18. [PMID: 15046752 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2003.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2003] [Revised: 11/11/2003] [Accepted: 11/13/2003] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Although surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor technique has been used to study protein-protein interactions and to detect conformational changes of proteins, it has not been shown whether the SPR biosensor can be used to study a complex kinetic system such as the protein-DNA binding, which sometimes involves several binding steps as well as dynamic conformational changes of the complexes. In this study, we have used SPR biosensor and T7 polymerase as the model system to study the interactions of the polymerase with a series of DNA template-primer duplexes containing different number of mismatches and GC contents at various positions near the primer 3'-end. In general, the binding constants measured by the SPR are several magnitudes smaller than those determined in solution, indicating the limitation of the surface-based technique for measuring solution-based interactions. However, the distinct polymerase binding profiles obtained for DNA duplexes differed by as low as a single mismatch suggest that the SPR data can be used for relative comparison purpose among a set of experiments carried out under identical conditions. The successful fitting of the binding profiles using the established translocation model also demonstrated that SPR can be used to monitor conformational changes, as well as to derive relative kinetic values, within a complicated DNA-protein interaction system. The results also demonstrated that SPR biosensor may be used as a sensitive technique for studying molecular recognition events, such as single-base discrimination involved in protein-DNA interactions.
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- Pui Yan Tsoi
- Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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Schuck P, Boyd LF, Andersen PS. Measuring Protein Interactions by Optical Biosensors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; Chapter 17:Unit 17.6. [DOI: 10.1002/0471143030.cb1706s22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Kapoor M, Thomas CJ, Bachhawat-Sikder K, Sharma S, Surolia A. Exploring kinetics and mechanism of protein-sugar recognition by surface plasmon resonance. Methods Enzymol 2003; 362:312-29. [PMID: 12968373 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(03)01022-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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- Mili Kapoor
- Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Donald J Winzor
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.
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Svitel J, Balbo A, Mariuzza RA, Gonzales NR, Schuck P. Combined affinity and rate constant distributions of ligand populations from experimental surface binding kinetics and equilibria. Biophys J 2003; 84:4062-77. [PMID: 12770910 PMCID: PMC1302986 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)75132-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2002] [Accepted: 02/21/2003] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The present article considers the influence of heterogeneity in a mobile analyte or in an immobilized ligand population on the surface binding kinetics and equilibrium isotherms. We describe strategies for solving the inverse problem of calculating two-dimensional distributions of rate and affinity constants from experimental data on surface binding kinetics, such as obtained from optical biosensors. Although the characterization of a heterogeneous population of analytes binding to uniform surface sites may be possible under suitable experimental conditions, computational difficulties currently limit this approach. In contrast, the case of uniform analytes binding to heterogeneous populations of surface sites is computationally feasible, and can be combined with Tikhonov-Phillips and maximum entropy regularization techniques that provide the simplest distribution that is consistent with the data. The properties of this ligand distribution analysis are explored with several experimental and simulated data sets. The resulting two-dimensional rate and affinity constant distributions can describe well experimental kinetic traces measured with optical biosensors. The use of kinetic surface binding data can give significantly higher resolution than affinity distributions from the binding isotherms alone. The shape and the level of detail of the calculated distributions depend on the experimental conditions, such as contact times and the concentration range of the analyte. Despite the flexibility introduced by considering surface site distributions, the impostor application of this model to surface binding data from transport limited binding processes or from analyte distributions can be identified by large residuals, if a sufficient range of analyte concentrations and contact times are used. The distribution analysis can provide a rational interpretation of complex experimental surface binding kinetics, and provides an analytical tool for probing the homogeneity of the populations of immobilized protein.
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- Juraj Svitel
- Division of Bioengineering & Physical Science, ORS, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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The application of surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based optical biosensors has contributed extensively to our understanding of functional aspects of HIV. SPR biosensors allow the analysis of real-time interactions of any biomolecule, be it protein, nucleic acid, lipid, carbohydrate or small molecule, without the need for intrinsic or extrinsic probes. As such, the technology has been used to analyze molecular interactions associated with every aspect of the viral life cycle, from basic studies of binding events occurring during docking, replication, budding and maturation to applied research related to vaccine and inhibitory drug development. Along the way, SPR biosensors have provided a unique and detailed view into the inner workings of HIV.
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- Rebecca L Rich
- Center for Biomolecular Interaction Analysis, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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Veselovsky AV, Ivanov YD, Ivanov AS, Archakov AI, Lewi P, Janssen P. Protein-protein interactions: mechanisms and modification by drugs. J Mol Recognit 2002; 15:405-22. [PMID: 12501160 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Protein-protein interactions form the proteinaceous network, which plays a central role in numerous processes in the cell. This review highlights the main structures, properties of contact surfaces, and forces involved in protein-protein interactions. The properties of protein contact surfaces depend on their functions. The characteristics of contact surfaces of short-lived protein complexes share some similarities with the active sites of enzymes. The contact surfaces of permanent complexes resemble domain contacts or the protein core. It is reasonable to consider protein-protein complex formation as a continuation of protein folding. The contact surfaces of the protein complexes have unique structure and properties, so they represent prospective targets for a new generation of drugs. During the last decade, numerous investigations have been undertaken to find or design small molecules that block protein dimerization or protein(peptide)-receptor interaction, or on the other hand, induce protein dimerization.
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Paynter S, Russell DA. Surface plasmon resonance measurement of pH-induced responses of immobilized biomolecules: conformational change or electrostatic interaction effects? Anal Biochem 2002; 309:85-95. [PMID: 12381366 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2697(02)00255-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Recently, the observation of pH-induced conformational changes of biomolecules supported on carboxymethyldextran (CMD)-coated surfaces measured using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) has been reported. However, it is apparent that the evidence reported in the literature is ambiguous. The research presented in this paper describes investigations to study the changing SPR signal of immobilized biomolecules as a function of varying pH, to provide a detailed understanding of the origin of the pH-induced changes in the SPR profile. SPR measurements were performed with cytochrome c, concanavalin A, and poly-L-lysine, biomolecules that exhibit diverse conformational responses to changing pH, covalently immobilized onto CMD-coated supports. These SPR measurements were supported by circular dichroism (CD) solution studies. The SPR profiles recorded were not consistent with the conformational transitions of the biomolecules as observed using CD. An alternative explanation for the observed shifts in SPR is proposed, which explains the SPR profiles in terms of electrostatic interaction effects between the immobilized biomolecules and the carboxymethyldextran matrix.
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- Sally Paynter
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK
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Boltovets PM, Boyko VR, Kostikov IY, Dyachenko NS, Snopok BA, Shirshov YM. Simple method for plant virus detection: effect of antibody immobilization technique. J Virol Methods 2002; 105:141-6. [PMID: 12176151 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-0934(02)00098-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The possibility has been demonstrated for applying a surface plasmon resonance for detecting plant viruses in real samples. An optimal mode for antiviral immunoglobulin immobilization on sensor surfaces is described. Out of three proposed techniques for sensor surface treatment, namely, unmodified gold surface, gold surface treated with (a) thiocyanate and (b) thiocyanate and protein A (Staphylococcus aureus), the latter was chosen as most suited for retention of the formed native immunoglobulin layer.
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- P M Boltovets
- D.K. Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, National Academy of Sciences, 145 Zabolotny St, Kyiv 03143, Ukraine.
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Banerjee A, Srilatha NS, Murthy GS. Real-time kinetic analysis of hCG-monoclonal antibody interaction using radiolabeled hCG probe: presence of two forms of Ag-mAb complex as revealed by solid phase dissociation studies. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2002; 1569:21-30. [PMID: 11853953 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4165(01)00228-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Real-time kinetics of ligand-ligate interaction has predominantly been studied by either fluorescence or surface plasmon resonance based methods. Almost all such studies are based on association between the ligand and the ligate. This paper reports our analysis of dissociation data of monoclonal antibody-antigen (hCG) system using radio-iodinated hCG as a probe and nitrocellulose as a solid support to immobilize mAb. The data was analyzed quantitatively for a one-step and a two-step model. The data fits well into the two-step model. We also found that a fraction of what is bound is non-dissociable (tight-binding portion (TBP)). The TBP was neither an artifact of immobilization nor does it interfere with analysis. It was present when the reaction was carried out in homogeneous solution in liquid phase. The rate constants obtained from the two methods were comparable. The work reported here shows that real-time kinetics of other ligand-ligate interaction can be studied using nitrocellulose as a solid support.
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- Ashish Banerjee
- Primate Research Laboratory, Department of Molecular Reproduction Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
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Abrantes M, Magone MT, Boyd LF, Schuck P. Adaptation of a surface plasmon resonance biosensor with microfluidics for use with small sample volumes and long contact times. Anal Chem 2001; 73:2828-35. [PMID: 11467523 DOI: 10.1021/ac0100042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The efficient delivery of sample to surface-immobilized sites is a key element in biosensing. For a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor, this has been addressed by constant flow through a microfluidic system with a sample injection loop (Sjölander, S.; Urbaniczky, C. Anal. Chem. 1991, 63, 2338-2345). The present study describes an alternative mode of sample delivery without constant unidirectional flow. It was implemented on a commercial Biacore X SPR biosensor equipped with a microfluidic cartridge, but with the fluidic handling performed by an externally computer-controlled syringe pump. We demonstrate that sample volumes as low as 2 microL can be reproducibly positioned to cover the sensor surfaces, manipulated in a serial fashion, efficiently mixed by applying an oscillatory flow pattern, and fully recovered. Compared to the traditional continuous unidirectional flow configuration, we found very similar kinetic responses at high analyte concentrations and slightly slower responses at low concentrations, most likely due to depletion of analyte from the small sample volumes due to surface binding. With the antibody-antigen systems tested, binding parameters were obtained that are generally within 10% of those from conventional experiments. In the new configuration, biosensor experiments can be conducted without the usual constraints in the surface contact time that are correlated with sample volume and mass transport rate. This can translate to improved detection limits for slow reactions and can facilitate kinetic and thermodynamic binding studies.
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- M Abrantes
- Molecular Interactions Resource, Division of Bioengineering and Physical Science, ORS, OD, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Khalifa MB, Choulier L, Lortat-Jacob H, Altschuh D, Vernet T. BIACORE data processing: an evaluation of the global fitting procedure. Anal Biochem 2001; 293:194-203. [PMID: 11399032 DOI: 10.1006/abio.2001.5119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Data from real-time molecular interaction analysis using BIACORE are currently evaluated by numerical integration. We have investigated the ability of two software packages (BIAevaluation 3.0 and CLAMP99) to analyze complex interactions. Three experimental data sets of high quality obtained with BIACORE upgraded and 2000 instruments, representative of simple bimolecular, heterogeneous ligand, and mass-transport-limited interactions, were processed by the global fitting procedure. The two software, which differ mainly in the statistical assessment of the output values, were able to discriminate correctly between various interacting models and provided very close output parameters with satisfactory statistical tests.
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- M B Khalifa
- Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Macromolécules, Laboratoire de Biophysique Moléculaire, Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre Ebel, 41 rue Jules Horowitz, Grenoble Cedex 1, 38027, France
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Zhao H, Shen ZM, Kahn PC, Lipke PN. Interaction of alpha-agglutinin and a-agglutinin, Saccharomyces cerevisiae sexual cell adhesion molecules. J Bacteriol 2001; 183:2874-80. [PMID: 11292808 PMCID: PMC99505 DOI: 10.1128/jb.183.9.2874-2880.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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alpha-Agglutinin and a-agglutinin are complementary cell adhesion glycoproteins active during mating in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They bind with high affinity and high specificity: cells of opposite mating types are irreversibly bound by a few pairs of agglutinins. Equilibrium and surface plasmon resonance kinetic analyses showed that the purified binding region of alpha-agglutinin interacted similarly with purified a-agglutinin and with a-agglutinin expressed on cell surfaces. At 20 degrees C, the K(D) for the interaction was 2 x 10(-9) to 5 x 10(-9) M. This high affinity was a result of a very low dissociation rate ( approximately 2.6 x 10(-4) s(-1)) coupled with a low association rate (= 5 x 10(4) M(-1) s(-1)). Circular-dichroism spectroscopy showed that binding of the proteins was accompanied by measurable changes in secondary structure. Furthermore, when binding was assessed at 10 degrees C, the association kinetics were sigmoidal, with a very low initial rate. An induced-fit model of binding with substantial apposition of hydrophobic surfaces on the two ligands can explain the observed affinity, kinetics, and specificity and the conformational effects of the binding reaction.
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- H Zhao
- Department of Biological Sciences and the Institute for Biomolecular Structure and Function, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, 10021, USA
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Hall D. Use of optical biosensors for the study of mechanistically concerted surface adsorption processes. Anal Biochem 2001; 288:109-25. [PMID: 11152582 DOI: 10.1006/abio.2000.4851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The advent of commercial optical biosensors, such as the BIAcore from Pharmacia and IAsys from Affinity Sensors, has made available to the biochemist a powerful means to examine and characterize the interaction of biological macromolecules with a binding surface. By analysis of the kinetic and equilibrium aspects of the observed experimental adsorption isotherms, rate and affinity constants can be determined. This Review focuses on pertinent aspects of the technology and its use for the performance and quantitative characterization of some various types of mechanistically concerted adsorption behavior.
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- D Hall
- Section on Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, USA.
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Lipschultz CA, Li Y, Smith-Gill S. Experimental design for analysis of complex kinetics using surface plasmon resonance. Methods 2000; 20:310-8. [PMID: 10694453 DOI: 10.1006/meth.1999.0924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Using BIAcore surface plasmon resonance technology, we found that the real-time association kinetics of Fabs specific for hen egg-white lysozyme did not conform to a 1:1 Langmuir association model. Heterogeneity of the components is not the source of the complex kinetics. Informed by independent structural data suggesting conformational flexibility differences among these antibodies, we chose global mathematical analysis based on a two-phase model, consistent with the encounter-docking view of protein-protein associations. Experimental association times (T(a)) from 2 to 250 min revealed that initial dissociation rates decreased with increasing T(a), confirming a multiphasic association. The relationship between observed dissociation rate and T(a) is characteristic of each antibody-antigen complex. We define a new parameter, T(50), the time at which the encounter and final complexes are of equimolar concentration. The observed T(50) is a function of analyte concentration and the encounter and docking rate constants. Simulations showed that when the ligand is saturated at high analyte concentrations, T(50) reaches a minimum value, T(50)(MIN), which can be used to compare antigen-antibody complexes. For high-affinity complexes with rapid rearrangement to a stable complex, T(50)(MIN) approaches T(1/2) of the rearrangement forward rate constant. We conclude that experiments with a range of T(a) are essential to assess the nature of the kinetics, regardless of whether a two-state or 1:1 model is applicable. We suggest this strategy because each T(a) potentially reveals a different distribution of molecular states; for two-step analysis, a range of T(a) that brackets T(50) is optimal.
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- C A Lipschultz
- Basic Research Laboratory, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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Henry MR, Wilkins Stevens P, Sun J, Kelso DM. Real-time measurements of DNA hybridization on microparticles with fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Anal Biochem 1999; 276:204-14. [PMID: 10603244 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1999.4344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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When capture oligonucleotides are tethered on planar surfaces, mass transport limitations influence the kinetics of solid-phase nucleic acid hybridizations. By diffusion theory, however, hybridization of oligonucleotides on microparticles should be reaction-rate limited. In an initial effort to understand the kinetics of microparticle hybridization reactions, we developed a fluorescence resonance energy transfer method for monitoring oligonucleotide hybridization on microparticles. Microparticles were coated with a fluoresceinated oligomer at surface densities of 20, 40, and 80% saturation, hybridized to a complementary oligonucleotide labeled with tetramethylrhodamine, and monitored over time for quenching of the fluorescein signal as hybridization occurred on the particle surface. Association rate constants were compared for microparticle-based hybridization and solution-phase hybridization. Rate constants for hybridizations on the particle surface were about an order of magnitude less than those for hybridization in solution, but decreasing the surface density of the capture oligonucleotide to 20% saturation improved particle hybridization rates. Although a bimolecular reaction model adequately described solution-phase hybridization kinetics, oligonucleotide hybridization on microparticles did not fit this model but exhibited biphasic reaction kinetics. Based on two different lines of reasoning, we argue that microparticle-based oligonucleotide hybridization was indeed reaction-rate limited in our system and not diffusion-rate limited.
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- M R Henry
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
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Schuck P, Boyd LF, Andersen PS. Measuring Protein Interactions by Optical Biosensors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999; Chapter 20:Unit20.2. [DOI: 10.1002/0471140864.ps2002s17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Recently developed scientific instrumentation featuring surface plasmon resonance detection allows the detection of biomolecular interactions in real time and without chemical modification of the binding partners. These biosensors are proving invaluable tools in protein engineering, particularly in research aimed at the isolation and improvement of protein binders and catalysts from macromolecular repertoires containing billions of individual members. This article reviews the use of biosensor technology for the isolation and characterization of engineered antibodies and enzymes.
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- A Huber
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Welfle K, Misselwitz R, Hausdorf G, Höhne W, Welfle H. Conformation, pH-induced conformational changes, and thermal unfolding of anti-p24 (HIV-1) monoclonal antibody CB4-1 and its Fab and Fc fragments. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1431:120-31. [PMID: 10209285 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(99)00046-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Conformation, acid-induced conformational changes and stability of the murine monoclonal antibody CB4-1 directed against the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 capsid protein p24, and its Fab and Fc fragments, were analysed by circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence, and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements. CD spectra show the characteristics expected for beta-proteins. Lowering the pH to 3.5 reduces the stability, but does not change the conformation. Between pH 3.5 and 2.0 conformational changes and the formation of new structures are indicated. Deconvolution of the bimodal DSC curves of CB4-1 reveals five 'two-state' transitions at pH 7.5. At pH 5 and below, only four transitions are found. Half transition temperatures Tm and molar enthalpy changes DeltaHm gradually decrease at pH 4 and 3.4. At pH 2.1, two low-temperature (Tm=36.9 and 44.1 degrees C) and two high-temperature (Tm=74.6 and 76.8 degrees C) transitions are identified. The Fab and Fc fragments behave similarly. Deconvolution of their monophasic DSC curves yields two 'two-state' transitions for each fragment. Tm and DeltaHm values gradually decrease at pH 4.0 and 3.4; and at pH 2.1 and 2.8 for Fab and Fc, respectively, one of the transitions is found at high temperature (Tm=67.2 and 75.9 degrees C for Fab and Fc, respectively).
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- K Welfle
- Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, D-13092, Berlin, Germany.
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Schuck P, Millar DB, Kortt AA. Determination of binding constants by equilibrium titration with circulating sample in a surface plasmon resonance biosensor. Anal Biochem 1998; 265:79-91. [PMID: 9866711 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1998.2872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A commercial surface plasmon resonance biosensor, BIACORE X, is employed as a detector in a closed loop of a small sample volume. The sample is continuously circulated by an external syringe pump over two sensor spots, one functionalized with immobilized binding sites to a soluble binding partner in the mobile phase and one serving as a reference surface. A binding isotherm for the interacting macromolecules can be obtained by a stepwise titration of the soluble reactant into the circulating loop, each step followed by observation of the signal increase until equilibrium is attained. Binding constants can be measured under conditions free of mass transport artifacts and without the requirement for regeneration of the immobilized binding sites. This procedure is similar to the stepwise titration procedure described for the cuvette-based sensor design (D. R. Hall and D. J. Winzor, 1997, Anal. Biochem. 244, 152-160). In the presented configuration, the high baseline stability of the instrument combined with the availability of a reference surface for the detection of nonspecific binding permits refractive index changes upon addition of the aliquots to be measured, as well as accounting for temperature or instrumental drifts, and allows for a very long experimental time. This feature extends the applicability of equilibrium titration to systems with higher affinity or slower dissociation rate constants. Furthermore a solution competition titration is described that avoids artifacts from the immobilization procedure to provide a method for measurement of binding constants in solution. Kinetic information on the complex dissociation can also be obtained by combination of sample delivery via the external pump with the injection of competitor via the microfluidics of the biosensor. The rapid injection of high concentrations of competitor allows the observation of fast dissociation processes under conditions minimizing rebinding.
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- P Schuck
- Molecular Interactions Resource, Bioengineering and Physical Science Program, ORS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Taylor MG, Rajpal A, Kirsch JF. Kinetic epitope mapping of the chicken lysozyme.HyHEL-10 Fab complex: delineation of docking trajectories. Protein Sci 1998; 7:1857-67. [PMID: 9761467 PMCID: PMC2144174 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The rate constants, k(on), for the formation of hen (chicken) lysozyme (HEWL). Fab-10 complexes have been determined for wild-type (WT) and epitope-mutated lysozymes by a homogeneous solution method based on the 95% reduced enzymatic activity of the complex. The values fall within a narrow 10-fold range [(0.18 to 1.92) x 10(6) M(-1)s(-l)]. The affinity constants, K(D), cover a broader, 440-fold, range from 0.075 to 33 nM. Values of K(D) as high as 7 microM were obtained for the complexes prepared from some mutations at HEWL positions 96 and 97, but the associated kinetic constants could not be determined. The values of k(on) are negatively correlated with side-chain volume at position 101HEWL, but are essentially independent of this parameter for position 21HEWL substitutions. The multiple mutations made at positions 21HEWL and 101HEWL provide sufficient experimental data on complex formation to evaluate phi values [phi = (deltadeltaGon)/(deltadeltaG(D))] at these two positions to begin to define trajectories for protein-protein association. The data, when interpreted within the concept of a two-step association sequence embracing a metastable encounter complex intermediate, argue that the rate determining step at position 21HEWL (phiavg = 0.2) is encounter complex formation, but the larger phi(avg) value of 0.36 experienced for most position 101HEWL mutations indicates a larger contribution from the post-encounter annealing process at this site for these replacements.
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- M G Taylor
- Center for Advanced Materials, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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de Haard HJ, Kazemier B, Koolen MJ, Nijholt LJ, Meloen RH, van Gemen B, Hoogenboom HR, Arends JW. Selection of recombinant, library-derived antibody fragments against p24 for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 diagnostics. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 1998; 5:636-44. [PMID: 9729530 PMCID: PMC95634 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.5.636-644.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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By application of combinatorial library technology, we generated the first recombinant antibody fragments directed against the major capsid protein p24 of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). A library of single-chain Fv fragments (scFvs) was constructed by using the antibody variable-region (V) genes of B cells derived from the spleen of a viral lysate-immunized mouse. Antibodies were selected by panning or by enrichment with biotinylated antigen, yielding four different families of antibody fragments. The different types of scFvs were characterized by affinity measurements, by antigen recognition on Western blots, and by pepscan analysis. The epitope of one of the scFvs is located near the residues involved in CypA binding, thereby making it an attractive candidate for therapeutic applications. Comparison of the V gene sequence of this scFV with that of a previously described monoclonal antibody reactive against this immunodominant epitope revealed the usage of the identical combination of VH and Vkappa regions. Thus, this is one of the rare examples in which the original combination in a library-derived antibody fragment was retrieved. After appropriate affinity and format improvements, the best of our recombinant scFvs may form the basis for a sensitive p24 assay as a measure of viral load. In addition, anti-p24 scFvs could be expressed as intracellular antibodies (intrabodies) to aid in the treatment of HIV infections.
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- H J de Haard
- Biosciences Research Unit, Organon Teknika, Boxtel, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Sasaki S, Kai E, Miyachi H, Muguruma H, Ikebukuro K, Ohkawa H, Karube I. Direct determination of etofenprox using surface plasmon resonance. Anal Chim Acta 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2670(98)00129-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Keitel T, Kramer A, Wessner H, Scholz C, Schneider-Mergener J, Höhne W. Crystallographic analysis of anti-p24 (HIV-1) monoclonal antibody cross-reactivity and polyspecificity. Cell 1997; 91:811-20. [PMID: 9413990 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80469-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The X-ray crystal structures of an anti-p24 (HIV-1) monoclonal antibody Fab fragment alone and in complexes with the epitope peptide GATPQDLNTnL (n = norleucine), an epitope-homologous peptide GATPEDLNQKLAGN, as well as two unrelated peptides GLYEWGGARITNTD and efslkGpllqwrsG (D-peptide), are presented to a maximum resolution of 2.6 A. The latter three peptides were identified from screening synthetic combinatorial peptide libraries. Although all peptides bind to the same antigen combining site, the nonhomologous peptides adopt different binding conformations and also form their critical contacts with different antibody residues. Only small readjustments are observed within the framework of the Fab fragment upon binding.
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- T Keitel
- Institut für Biochemie, Universitätsklinikum Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
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Schuck P. Reliable determination of binding affinity and kinetics using surface plasmon resonance biosensors. Curr Opin Biotechnol 1997; 8:498-502. [PMID: 9265731 DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(97)80074-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Progress has been made in the identification of experimental and analytical procedures that allow for a more reliable determination of equilibrium and kinetic constants. Possible origins of the frequently observed deviations of the measured binding progress from that expected for chemical binding of pseudo-first order, and appropriate experimental controls have been proposed. Improved analytical approaches include the application of global analysis and analytical corrections for the influence of mass transport.
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- P Schuck
- Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-5766, USA.
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Anderson DJ, Guo B, Xu Y, Ng LM, Kricka LJ, Skogerboe KJ, Hage DS, Schoeff L, Wang J, Sokoll LJ, Chan DW, Ward KM, Davis KA. Clinical chemistry. Anal Chem 1997; 69:165R-229R. [PMID: 9195857 DOI: 10.1021/a1970008p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- D J Anderson
- Department of Chemistry, Cleveland State University, Ohio 44115, USA
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Schuck P. Use of surface plasmon resonance to probe the equilibrium and dynamic aspects of interactions between biological macromolecules. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 1997; 26:541-66. [PMID: 9241429 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.26.1.541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 500] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Surface plasmon resonance biosensors have become increasingly popular for the qualitative and quantitative characterization of the specific binding of a mobile reactant to a binding partner immobilized on the sensor surface. This article reviews the use of this new technique to measure the binding affinities and the kinetic constants of reversible interactions between biological macromolecules. Immobilization techniques, the most commonly employed experimental strategies, and various analytical approaches are summarized. In recent years, several sources of potential artifacts have been identified: immobilization of the binding partner, steric hindrance of binding to adjacent binding sites at the sensor surface, and finite rate of mass transport of the mobile reactant to the sensor surface. Described here is the influence of these artifacts on the measured binding kinetics and equilibria, together with suggested control experiments.
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- P Schuck
- Section of Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Ehrhard B, Misselwitz R, Welfle K, Hausdorf G, Glaser RW, Schneider-Mergener J, Welfle H. Chemical modification of recombinant HIV-1 capsid protein p24 leads to the release of a hidden epitope prior to changes of the overall folding of the protein. Biochemistry 1996; 35:9097-105. [PMID: 8703914 DOI: 10.1021/bi9603534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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It was found that the affinity of a monoclonal antibody directed against a recombinantly expressed HIV-1 capsid protein p24 (rp24) strongly increased after chemical modification of the Iysine residues of rp24 with different amounts of maleic anhydride. The extent and the sites of modification were analyzed by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Unmodified rp24 and the differently modified rp24 samples were tested for binding the murine monoclonal antibody CB4-1 which recognizes the epitope GATPQDLNTML comprising residues 46-56 of rp24. An increase in the number of modified lysine residues led to enhanced binding affinity of CB4-1. Most pronounced effects were observed after substitution of the first amino groups: an average number of three modified residues per protein molecule increases the binding affinity by a factor of 23, but the substitution of the remaining nine residues increases the binding affinity only by a factor of 11. Fully modified rp24 variant proteins were bound by CB4-1 with Kd values comparable to that of the peptide epitope. Conformation and stability of the unmodified rp24, highly (rp24F, 9 residues; rp24G, 11 residues) modified, and fully modified protein (rp24I, 11 lysine residues and N-terminus) were analyzed by circular dichroism (CD) and fluorescence spectroscopy under different solvent conditions. Little difference in conformation and unfolding behavior was observed between the unmodified and highly modified rp24, which differ drastically in the antibody binding behavior. The fully modified sample, however, displayed a significant decrease in alpha-helical content. Thus, the epitope seems to be hidden (cryptotope) in the unmodified rp24 in a low-affinity binding conformation and becomes displayed at low levels of chemical modification which obviously induce subtle structural changes prior to changes of the overall folding observable by spectroscopic means.
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- B Ehrhard
- Institut für Medizinische Immunologie and Institut für Biochemie, Universitätsklinikum Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
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