A Multifunctional Single-Attachment-Point Reagent for Controlled Protein Biotinylation
A Multifunctional Single-Attachment-Point Reagent for Controlled Protein Biotinylation
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DOI:
10.1021/bc800392t
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发表时间:
2009-01-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Josephson, Lee
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作者:
Garanger, Elisabeth;Weissleder, Ralph;Josephson, Lee
The biotin/avidin system is one of the most widely used affinity detection and affinity capture systems in biology. However, the determination of the exact number of biotin tags attached onto a substrate is complicated by the fact that biotin does not present any light-absorbing or -emitting properties. Here, we describe a fluorescent biotinylation reagent designed from the general multifunctional single-attachment-point (MSAP) reagent concept. A Lys-Cys dipeptide scaffold was used to display a biotin functional group and a fluorescein functional group along with an N-hydroxysuccinimide ester reactive group. The resulting bifunctional MSAP reagent, Fl-Biotin-NHS, was used to prepare a monobiotinylated version of cetuximab, which was further reacted with avidin to obtain a soluble avidin-based cetuximab oligomer. The MSAP peptide-scaffold approach allows fluorophores, chromophores, or reactive groups to be combined with biotin and provides a broad approach to obtain multifunctional biotin-based reagents.