Use of recombinant biotinylated aequorin in microtiter and membrane-based assays: purification of recombinant apoaequorin from Escherichia coli.
Use of recombinant biotinylated aequorin in microtiter and membrane-based assays: purification of recombinant apoaequorin from Escherichia coli.
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重组生物素化水母发光蛋白在微量滴定和基于膜的测定中的应用:从大肠杆菌中纯化重组脱辅基水母发光蛋白。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00120a021
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发表时间:
1992
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Smith,DF
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作者:
Stults,NL;Stocks,NF;Rivera,H;Gray,J;McCann,RO;O'Kane,D;Cummings,RD;Cormier,MJ;Smith,DF
Revised Manuscript Received October 16, 1991 abstract: Aequorin is a calcium-dependent bioluminescent protein isolated from the hydromedusan Aequorea victoria. The gene for aequorin has been cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli [Prasher et al.(1985) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 126, 1259; Prasher et al.(1987) Biochemistry 26, 1326]. Higher levels of expression have recently been obtained by subcloning aequorin cDNA into the pRC23 plasmid vector such that its expression is undercontrol of the X PL promoter [Cormier etal.(1989) Photochem. Photobiol. 49, 509]. Purification of recombinantapoaequorin from E. coli containing this new recombinant plasmid (pAEQ1. 3) was accomplished by a two-step procedure involving gel filtration and anion-exchange chromatography on Sephadex G-100 and DEAE-Sepharose, respectively. Typically, 400-500 mg of re-combinant protein was obtained from 100 L of fermentation culture. The purified recombinant apoaequorin could be converted to aequorin in high yield upon incubationwith syntheticcoelenterate luciferin, dissolved oxygen, and a thiol reagent with a photon yield similar to the native photoprotein. Detection of recombinant aequorin in the Dynatech ML1000 Microplate luminometer was linear between 10~ 18 and 10~ 12 mol, and little loss of specific activity was observed when the protein was derivatized with biotin. The biotinylated derivative was stable when frozen, lyophilized, or stored at 4 C. The feasibility of using biotinylated aequorin as a nonradioactive tag was established by its application in a variety of solid-phase assay formats using the high-affinity streptavidin/biotininteraction. A microtiter-based bioluminescent immunoassay (BLIA) using biotinylated aequorin and the ML1000 luminometer was developed for the detection of subnanogram amounts of a glycosphingolipid (Forsmann antigen). In addition, nanogram to subnanogram quantities of protein antigens and DNA, immobilized on Western and Southern blots, respectively, were detected on instant and X-ray films using biotinylated aequorin.