claMP Tag: A Versatile Inline Metal-Binding Platform Based on the Metal Abstraction Peptide

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• 作者：Brittney J. Mills ; Qingxin Mu ; Mary E. Krause ; Jennifer S. Laurence
• 刊名：Bioconjugate Chemistry
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：June 18, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：25
• 期：6
• 页码：1103-1111
• 全文大小：350K
• 年卷期：v.25,no.6(June 18, 2014)
• ISSN：1520-4812

文摘

Molecularly targeted research and diagnostic tools are essential to advancing understanding and detection of many diseases. Metals often impart the desired functionality to these tools, and conjugation of high-affinity chelators to proteins is carried out to enable targeted delivery of the metal. This approach has been much more effective with large lanthanide series metals than smaller transition metals. Because chemical conjugation requires additional processing and purification steps and yields a heterogeneous mixture of products, inline incorporation of a peptide tag capable of metal binding is a highly preferable alternative. Development of a transition metal binding tag would provide opportunity to greatly expand metal-based analyses. The metal abstraction peptide (MAP) sequence was genetically engineered into recombinant protein to generate the claMP Tag. The effects of this tag on recombinant epidermal growth factor (EGF) protein expression, disulfide bond formation, tertiary structural integrity, and transition metal incorporation using nickel were examined to confirm the viability of utilizing the MAP sequence to generate linker-less metal conjugates.