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Liang J, Wang K, Gong L, Zhang Z, Wang J, Cao Y, Yang T, Zeng H. High extinction coefficient material combined with multi-line lateral flow immunoassay strip for ultrasensitive detection of bacteria. Food Chem 2023; 427:136721. [PMID: 37390742 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.136721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/02/2023]
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Lateral flow immunoassay strips (LFIAs) are a reliable and point-of-care detection method for rapid monitoring of bacteria, but their sensitivity was limited by the low extinction coefficient of colloidal gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) and low capture efficiency of test-line. In this study, polydopamine nanoparticles (PDA NPs) were employed to replace Au NPs, due to their high extinction coefficient. And the amount of test-line was increased to 5 for further improving the efficiency of bacteria capture. Thus, under visual observation, the detection limits of PDA-based LFIAs (102 CFU/mL) were about 2 orders of magnitude lower than Au-based LFIAs (104 CFU/mL). Furthermore, the invisible signal could be collected by Image J and the detection limit can reach 10 CFU/mL. The proposed test strips were successfully applied for the quantitative, accurate, and rapid screening of E. coli in food samples. This study provided a universal approach to enhance the sensitivity of bacteria LFIAs.
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- Jianwei Liang
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China; Guangdong Youkai Science and Technology Co., Ltd., Foshan 528000, Guangdong, China.
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Rabbani G, Khan ME, Ahmad E, Khan MV, Ahmad A, Khan AU, Ali W, Zamzami MA, Bashiri AH, Zakri W. Serum CRP biomarker detection by using carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNT-FET) immunosensor. Bioelectrochemistry 2023; 153:108493. [PMID: 37392576 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2023.108493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2023] [Revised: 06/18/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/03/2023]
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C-reactive protein (CRP) is produced by the liver in response to systemic inflammation caused by bacterial infection, trauma and internal organ failures. CRP serves as a potential biomarker in the precise diagnosis of cardiovascular risk, type-2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hypertension and various types of cancers. The pathogenic conditions indicated above are diagnosed by an elevated CRP level in the serum. In this study, we successfully fabricated a highly sensitive and selective carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNT-FET) immunosensor for the detection of CRP. The CNTs were deposited on the Si/SiO2 surface, between source-drain electrodes, afterwards modified with well-known linker PBASE and then anti-CRP was immobilized. This anti-CRP functionalized CNT-FET immunosensor exhibits a wide dynamic detection range (0.01-1000 μg/mL) CRP detection, rapid response time (2-3 min) and low variation (<3 %) which can be delivered as a low-cost and rapid clinical detection technology for the early diagnosis of coronary heart disease (CHD). For the clinical applications, our sensor was tested using CRP fortified serum samples and sensing performance was validated using enzyme-linked immune-sorbent assay (ELISA). This CNT-FET immunosensor will be helpful in taking over the complex laboratory-based expensive traditional CRP diagnostic procedures practiced in the hospitals.
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- Gulam Rabbani
- IT-medical Fusion Center, 350-27 Gumidae-ro, Gumi-si, Gyeongbuk 39253, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Technology, College of Applied Industrial Technology, Jazan University, 45142, Saudi Arabia.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow 226026, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21452, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Electrical Engineering Technology, College of Applied Industrial Technology, Jazan University, 45142, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Technology, College of Applied Industrial Technology, Jazan University, 45142, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21452, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Jazan University, P. O. Box 114, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Jazan University, P. O. Box 114, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia
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Oka Y, Ushiba S, Miyakawa N, Nishio M, Ono T, Kanai Y, Watanabe Y, Tani S, Kimura M, Matsumoto K. Ionic strength-sensitive and pH-insensitive interactions between C-reactive protein (CRP) and an anti-CRP antibody. Biophys Physicobiol 2022; 19:e190003. [PMID: 35958119 PMCID: PMC8926308 DOI: 10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v19.0003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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C-reactive protein (CRP) is an important biomarker of infection and inflammation, as CRP is one of the most prominent acute-phase proteins. CRP is usually detected using anti-CRP antibodies (Abs), where the intermolecular interactions between CRP and the anti-CRP Ab are largely affected by the pH and ionic strength of environmental solutions. Therefore, it is important to understand the environmental effects of CRP–anti-CRP Ab interactions when designing highly sensitive biosensors. Here, we investigated the efficiency of fluorescently labeled CRP–anti-CRP monoclonal antibody (mAb) interactions at different pHs and ionic strengths. Our results indicate that the affinity was insensitive to pH changes in the range of 5.9 to 8.1, while it was significantly sensitive to ionic strength changes. The binding affinity decreased by 55% at an ionic strength of 1.6 mM, when compared to that under a physiological condition (~150 mM). Based on the isoelectric focusing results, both the labeled CRP and anti-CRP mAb were negatively charged in the studied pH range, which rendered the system insensitive to pH changes, but sensitive to ionic strength changes. The decreased ionic strength led to a significant enhancement of the repulsive force between CRP and the anti-CRP mAb. Although the versality of the findings is not fully studied yet, the results provide insights into designing highly sensitive CRP sensors, especially field-effect transistor-based sensors.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
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Le TS, He S, Takahashi M, Enomoto Y, Matsumura Y, Maenosono S. Enhancing the Sensitivity of Lateral Flow Immunoassay by Magnetic Enrichment Using Multifunctional Nanocomposite Probes. Langmuir 2021; 37:6566-6577. [PMID: 34008984 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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For lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA), it is an important challenge to enhance the detection sensitivity to the same level as polymerase chain reaction or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to make LFIA pervasive in the field of on-site environmental analysis. We recently demonstrated that the LFIA sensitivity is dramatically enhanced by using Pt-nanoparticle-latex nanocomposite beads (Pt-P2VPs) as probes for the detection of the influenza A (H1N1) antigen compared with using conventional Au colloids as probes. Here, to further enhance the LFIA sensitivity using Pt-P2VPs, superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) were chemically conjugated to Pt-P2VPs (Pt-P2VP@SPION) to give them magnetic separation capability (enrichment and/or purification). To investigate the effect of magnetic enrichment on the LFIA sensitivity in a sandwich format, the C-reactive protein (CRP) was chosen as a model analyte and anti-CRP antibody (CRPAb)-conjugated Pt-P2VP@SPION (Pt-P2VP@SPION-CRPAb) beads were used as probes. The visual limit of detection (LOD) of LFIA was successfully lowered by increasing the magnetic enrichment factor φ. The minimum LOD under the present experimental conditions was 0.08 ng/mL for φ = 40, which is 26-fold lower than that of the standard Au-nanoparticle-based LFIA. In theory, the LOD can be unlimitedly decreased by just increasing φ. However, the times required for both the antigen-antibody binding reaction and magnetic separation dramatically increase with φ. We also propose solutions to overcome this drawback.
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- The Son Le
- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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- New Materials Development Center, Research & Development Division, Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd., 1-Tsukiji, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0835, Japan
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- New Materials Development Center, Research & Development Division, Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd., 1-Tsukiji, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0835, Japan
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- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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Semple SL, Dixon B. Salmonid Antibacterial Immunity: An Aquaculture Perspective. Biology (Basel) 2020; 9:E331. [PMID: 33050557 PMCID: PMC7599743 DOI: 10.3390/biology9100331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Revised: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The aquaculture industry is continuously threatened by infectious diseases, including those of bacterial origin. Regardless of the disease burden, aquaculture is already the main method for producing fish protein, having displaced capture fisheries. One attractive sector within this industry is the culture of salmonids, which are (a) uniquely under pressure due to overfishing and (b) the most valuable finfish per unit of weight. There are still knowledge gaps in the understanding of fish immunity, leading to vaccines that are not as effective as in terrestrial species, thus a common method to combat bacterial disease outbreaks is the use of antibiotics. Though effective, this method increases both the prevalence and risk of generating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. To facilitate vaccine design and/or alternative treatment efforts, a deeper understanding of the teleost immune system is essential. This review highlights the current state of teleost antibacterial immunity in the context of salmonid aquaculture. Additionally, the success of current techniques/methods used to combat bacterial diseases in salmonid aquaculture will be addressed. Filling the immunology knowledge gaps highlighted here will assist in reducing aquaculture losses in the future.
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- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada;
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Nguyen TH, Wesche J, Raschke R, Strobel U, Bui VC, Delcea M, Greinacher A. Reactivity of platelet-activating and nonplatelet-activating anti-PF4/heparin antibodies in enzyme immunosorbent assays under different conditions. J Thromb Haemost 2019; 17:1113-1119. [PMID: 31009154 DOI: 10.1111/jth.14455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Essentials At low pH and low salt concentrations: Maximal conformational change of PF4 upon complexation with heparin occurs. Changing physicochemical conditions may become an approach to better discriminate the signal of platelet-activating- and nonactivating PF4/H Abs in antigen tests. BACKGROUND Enzyme immunosorbent assays (EIA) are widely used to detect human antiplatelet factor 4/heparin antibodies (aPF4/H Abs) to rule out heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. EIAs cannot differentiate between clinically relevant, platelet-activating, and nonrelevant, nonplatelet-activating Abs and only ~50% of patients' sera testing positive by EIA contain antibodies that activate platelets. Recently, we have shown platelet-activating aPF4/H Abs bind more strongly to PF4/H complexes than nonplatelet-activating antibodies. Antigen-antibody interactions are known to depend on electrostatic interactions governed by pH, heat, and ionic strength. We tested whether changes in pH and ionic strength can improve the specificity of EIAs detecting aPF4/H Abs. METHODS We investigated first the conformational change of PF4 when binding to heparin under various pH and salt conditions using circular dichroism spectroscopy, and then the binding of aPF4/H Abs to PF4/H complexes by EIA. RESULTS Maximal conformational change of PF4 on complexation with heparin was identified at low pH and low salt concentrations. EIA tested with a large number of sera at 50 mmol/L NaCl, pH 6.0 shows a potential to increase the specificity for the detection of platelet-activating aPF4/H Abs. CONCLUSION Changing physicochemical conditions may become an approach to better discriminate the signal of platelet-activating and nonactivating PF4/H Abs in antigen tests.
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- Thi-Huong Nguyen
- Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- ZIK HIKE - Center for Innovation Competence, Humoral Immune Reactions in Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- ZIK HIKE - Center for Innovation Competence, Humoral Immune Reactions in Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Dopp BJL, Tamiev DD, Reuel NF. Cell-free supplement mixtures: Elucidating the history and biochemical utility of additives used to support in vitro protein synthesis in E. coli extract. Biotechnol Adv 2019; 37:246-258. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2018.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Revised: 12/06/2018] [Accepted: 12/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Nguyen T, Greinacher A. Effect of pH and ionic strength on the binding strength of anti-PF4/polyanion antibodies. Eur Biophys J 2017; 46:795-801. [DOI: 10.1007/s00249-017-1240-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2017] [Revised: 05/31/2017] [Accepted: 07/02/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Della Pia EA, Martinez KL. Single domain antibodies as a powerful tool for high quality surface plasmon resonance studies. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0124303. [PMID: 25822527 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Single domain antibodies are recombinantly expressed functional antibodies devoid of light chains. These binding elements are derived from heavy chain antibodies found in camelids and offer several distinctive properties for applications in biotechnology such as small size, stability, solubility, and expression in high yields. In this study we demonstrated the potential of using single domain antibodies as capturing molecules in biosensing applications. Single domain antibodies raised against green fluorescent protein were anchored onto biosensor surfaces by using several immobilization strategies based on Ni2+:nitrilotriacetic acid-polyhistidine tag, antibody-antigen, biotin-streptavidin interactions and amine-coupling chemistry. The interaction with the specific target of the single domain antibodies was characterized by surface plasmon resonance. The immobilized single domain antibodies show high affinities for their antigens with KD = 3-6 nM and outperform other antibody partners as capturing molecules facilitating also the data analysis. Furthermore they offer high resistance and stability to a wide range of denaturing agents. These unique biophysical properties and the production of novel single domain antibodies against affinity tags make them particularly attractive for use in biosensing and diagnostic assays.
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- Monica A. Kapil
- Department
of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94706, United States
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- Department
of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94706, United States
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Glaser RW, Schönherr R, Heinemann SH. Fixed charges in the gel matrix of sensor chips and dissociation in diffusion gradients influence the detection of fast protein-protein interactions. Biosystems 2013; 116:27-35. [PMID: 24342363 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2013.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2012] [Revised: 09/01/2013] [Accepted: 09/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In molecular interaction studies based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) measurements, the ligand is often immobilized in a thin carboxydextran gel matrix. Here we investigated the influence of the charged gel on the results of such SPR measurements. At physiological ionic strength, analytes with a net charge of more than about 5 are considerably enriched or depleted due to the Donnan potential under commonly applied experimental conditions. Below physiological ionic strength, enrichment was found to be even stronger than predicted by Donnan theory. The influence of the gel matrix on the apparent binding is prevented in competition experiments, in which SPR measurements are only used to discriminate between free and complexed analyte while the interaction between analyte and ligand is studied in solution. However, if the analyte-ligand interaction is very fast, thermodynamic equilibrium is disturbed near the interface where free analyte binds to the immobilized ligand due to mass transport limitation. Consequently, the soluble analyte-ligand complex dissociates, which results in an overestimation of free analyte. In experiments of calmodulin binding to fragments of the KCNH1 ion channel protein this mass-transport-induced dissociation led to a systematic underestimation of the affinity. We conclude that the insufficient discrimination between the true analyte-ligand binding and the complex interactions of the analyte with the gel phase may result in systematic errors. The theoretical framework for recognizing and avoiding such errors is provided.
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- Ralf W Glaser
- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Straße 2, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
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- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Straße 2, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Straße 2, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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The cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by β- and γ-secretases results in the production of amyloid-β (Aβ) in Alzheimer's disease. We raised two monoclonal antibodies, 2B3 and 2B12, that recognize the β-secretase cleavage site on APP but not Aβ. We hypothesized that these antibodies would reduce Aβ levels via steric hindrance of β-secretase. Both antibodies decreased extracellular Aβ levels from astrocytoma cells, but 2B3 was more potent than 2B12. Levels of soluble sAPPα from the nonamyloidogenic α-secretase pathway and intracellular APP were not affected by either antibody nor were there any effects on cell viability. 2B3 exhibited a higher affinity for APP than 2B12 and its epitope appeared to span the cleavage site, whereas 2B12 bound slightly upstream. Both of these factors probably contribute to its greater effect on Aβ levels. After 60 min incubation at pH 4.0, most 2B3 and 2B12 remained bound to their antigen, suggesting that the antibodies will remain bound to APP in the acidic endosomes where β-secretase cleavage probably occurs. Only 2B3 and 2B12, but not control antibodies, inhibited the cleavage of sAPPα by β-secretase in a cell-free assay where the effects of antibody internalization and intracellular degradation were excluded. 2B3 virtually abolished this cleavage. In addition, levels of C-terminal APP fragments, generated following β-secretase cleavage (βCTF), were significantly reduced in cells after incubation with 2B3. These results strongly suggest that anti-cleavage site IgGs can generically reduce Aβ levels via inhibition of β-secretase by steric hindrance and may provide a novel alternative therapy for Alzheimer's disease.
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Phichith D, Bun S, Padiolleau-Lefèvre S, Banh S, Thomas D, Friboulet A, Avalle B. Mutational and inhibitory analysis of a catalytic antibody. Implication for drug discovery. Mol Immunol 2009; 47:348-56. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2009.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2009] [Accepted: 09/03/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dimitrov JD, Roumenina LT, Andre S, Repesse Y, Atanasov BP, Jacquemin M, Saint-Remy JM, Bayry J, Kaveri SV, Lacroix-Desmazes S. Kinetics and thermodynamics of interaction of coagulation factor VIII with a pathogenic human antibody. Mol Immunol 2009; 47:290-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2009.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2009] [Revised: 09/06/2009] [Accepted: 09/08/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Laurenzana EM, Hendrickson HP, Carpenter D, Peterson EC, Gentry WB, West M, Che Y, Carroll FI, Owens SM. Functional and biological determinants affecting the duration of action and efficacy of anti-(+)-methamphetamine monoclonal antibodies in rats. Vaccine 2009; 27:7011-20. [PMID: 19800446 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.09.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2009] [Revised: 09/11/2009] [Accepted: 09/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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These studies examined the in vivo pharmacokinetics and efficacy of five anti-methamphetamine monoclonal antibodies (mAbs, K(D) values from 11 to 250 nM) in rats. While no substantive differences in mAb systemic clearance (t(1/2)=6.1-6.9 days) were found, in vivo function was significantly reduced within 1-3 days for four of the five mAbs. Only mAb4G9 was capable of prolonged efficacy, as judged by prolonged high methamphetamine serum concentrations. MAb4G9 also maintained high amphetamine serum concentrations, along with reductions in methamphetamine and amphetamine brain concentrations, indicating neuroprotection. The combination of broad specificity for methamphetamine-like drugs, high affinity, and prolonged action in vivo suggests mAb4G9 is a potentially efficacious medication for treating human methamphetamine-related medical diseases.
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- Eric Hajjar
- Department of Physics, University of Cagliari (CA), Italy, Biocomputing Group, IGBMC, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France, and Computational Biology Unit, BCCS, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Physics, University of Cagliari (CA), Italy, Biocomputing Group, IGBMC, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France, and Computational Biology Unit, BCCS, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Physics, University of Cagliari (CA), Italy, Biocomputing Group, IGBMC, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France, and Computational Biology Unit, BCCS, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway
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Kirk MJ, Hayward RM, Sproull M, Scott T, Smith S, Cooley-Zgela T, Crouse NS, Citrin DE, Camphausen K. Non-patient related variables affecting levels of vascular endothelial growth factor in urine biospecimens. J Cell Mol Med 2008; 12:1250-5. [PMID: 18782189 PMCID: PMC3865669 DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2008.00182.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an angiogenic protein proposed to be an important biomarker for the prediction of tumour growth and disease progression. Recent studies suggest that VEGF measurements in biospecimens, including urine, may have predictive value across a range of cancers. However, the reproducibility and reliability of urinary VEGF measurements have not been determined. We collected urine samples from patients receiving radiation treatment for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and examined the effects of five variables on measured VEGF levels using an ELISA assay. To quantify the factors affecting the precision of the assay, two variables were examined: the variation between ELISA kits with different lot numbers and the variation between different technicians. Three variables were tested for their effects on measured VEGF concentration: the time the specimen spent at room temperature prior to assay, the addition of protease inhibitors prior to specimen storage and the alteration of urinary pH. This study found that VEGF levels were consistent across three different ELISA kit lot numbers. However, significant variation was observed between results obtained by different technicians. VEGF concentrations were dependent on time at room temperature before measurement, with higher values observed 3-7 hrs after removal from the freezer. No significant difference was observed in VEGF levels with the addition of protease inhibitors, and alteration of urinary pH did not significantly affect VEGF measurements. In conclusion, this determination of the conditions necessary to reliably measure urinary VEGF levels will be useful for future studies related to protein biomarkers and disease progression.
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- M J Kirk
- Radiation Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892-1002, USA
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Mandrika I, Prusis P, Bergström J, Yahorava S, Wikberg JES. Improving the affinity of antigens for mutated antibodies by use of statistical molecular design. J Pept Sci 2008; 14:786-96. [DOI: 10.1002/psc.999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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pK(a) values of ionizable residues have been calculated using the PROPKA method and structures of 75 protein-protein complexes and their corresponding free forms. These pK(a) values were used to compute changes in protonation state of individual residues, net changes in protonation state of the complex relative to the uncomplexed proteins, and the correction to a binding energy calculated assuming standard protonation states at pH 7. For each complex, two different structures for the uncomplexed form of the proteins were used: the X-ray structures determined for the proteins in the absence of the other protein and the individual protein structures taken from the structure of the complex (referred to as unbound and bound structures, respectively). In 28 and 77% of the cases considered here, protein-protein binding is accompanied by a complete (>95%) or significant (>50%) change in protonation state of at least one residue using unbound structures. Furthermore, in 36 and 61% of the cases, protein-protein binding is accompanied by a complete or significant net change in protonation state of the complex relative to the separated monomers. Using bound structures, the corresponding values are 12, 51, 20, and 48%. Comparison to experimental data suggest that using unbound and bound structures lead to over- and underestimation of binding-induced protonation state changes, respectively. Thus, we conclude that protein-protein binding is often associated with changes in protonation state of amino acid residues and with changes in the net protonation state of the proteins. The pH-dependent correction to the binding energy contributes at least one order of magnitude to the binding constant in 45 and 23%, using unbound and bound structures, respectively.
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- Aaron C Mason
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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Sibler AP, Baltzinger M, Choulier L, Desplancq D, Altschuh D. SPR identification of mild elution conditions for affinity purification of E6 oncoprotein, using a multivariate experimental design. J Mol Recognit 2008; 21:46-54. [DOI: 10.1002/jmr.865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Lafont V, Schaefer M, Stote RH, Altschuh D, Dejaegere A. Protein-protein recognition and interaction hot spots in an antigen-antibody complex: free energy decomposition identifies "efficient amino acids". Proteins 2007; 67:418-34. [PMID: 17256770 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The molecular mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann surface area (MM/PBSA) method was applied to the study of the protein-protein complex between a camelid single chain variable domain (cAb-Lys3) and hen egg white lysozyme (HEL), and between cAb-Lys3 and turkey egg white lysozyme (TEL). The electrostatic energy was estimated by solving the linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation. A free energy decomposition scheme was developed to determine binding energy hot spots of each complex. The calculations identified amino acids of the antibody that make important contributions to the interaction with lysozyme. They further showed the influence of small structural variations on the energetics of binding and they showed that the antibody amino acids that make up the hot spots are organized in such a way as to mimic the lysozyme substrate. Through further analysis of the results, we define the concept of "efficient amino acids," which can provide an assessment of the binding potential of a particular hot spot interaction. This information, in turn, can be useful in the rational design of small molecules that mimic the antibody. The implications of using free energy decomposition to identify regions of a protein-protein complex that could be targeted by small molecules inhibitors are discussed.
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- Virginie Lafont
- Structural Biology and Genomics Department, UMR 7104, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS / INSERM / ULP, F-67404 Illkirch Cedex, France
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Padiolleau-Lefevre S, Alexandrenne C, Dkhissi F, Clement G, Essono S, Blache C, Couraud JY, Wijkhuisen A, Boquet D. Expression and detection strategies for an scFv fragment retaining the same high affinity than Fab and whole antibody: Implications for therapeutic use in prion diseases. Mol Immunol 2007; 44:1888-96. [PMID: 17140664 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2006.09.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2006] [Accepted: 09/29/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Since antibodies currently constitute the most rapidly growing class of human therapeutics, the high-yield production of recombinant antibodies and antibody fragments is a real challenge. Using as model a monoclonal antibody directed against the human prion protein that we prepared previously and tested for its therapeutic value, we describe here experimental conditions allowing the production of large quantities (up to 35 mg/l of bacterial culture) of correctly refolded and totally functional single chain fragment variable (scFv). These quantities were sufficient to characterize the binding properties of this small recombinant fragment through in vitro and ex vivo approaches. Interestingly, this scFv retains full binding capacity for its antigen, i.e. the human prion protein, when compared with the corresponding Fab or whole antibody, and recognizes soluble, solid-phase-adsorbed, and membrane-bound prion protein. This strongly suggests that from the mAb cloning step to the refolding of the recombinant fragment, each stage is well controlled, leading to almost 100% functional scFv. These results are of interest not only in view of possible immunotherapy for prion diseases, but also more generally in emphasizing the great promise of these small recombinant molecules in the context of targeted therapies.
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- Séverine Padiolleau-Lefevre
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) Saclay, Service de Pharmacologie et d'Immunologie, Bat 136, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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Dimitrov JD, Lacroix-Desmazes S, Kaveri SV, Vassilev TL. Transition towards antigen-binding promiscuity of a monospecific antibody. Mol Immunol 2006; 44:1854-63. [PMID: 17097144 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2006.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2006] [Revised: 10/04/2006] [Accepted: 10/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Polyspecificity is defined as the ability of a given antibody molecule to bind a large panel of structurally diverse antigens. A fraction of circulating IgG in all healthy individuals acquires promiscuous antigen-binding activity only after a transient exposure to certain protein destabilizing factors. The molecular mechanisms of this phenomenon are not well understood. Exposures to protein destabilizing agents are common steps in immunoglobulin isolation and purification processes. We performed kinetic and thermodynamic analyses using surface plasmon resonance-based technique in order to characterize the interactions of a single mouse monoclonal antibody to its cognate antigen before and after induction of promiscuous antigen-binding activity. The obtained results, suggest that enhanced antigen binding activity induced by exposure to mild denaturing condition resulted from an increase in the structural flexibility of the antigen-binding site. Further pH and ionic strength-dependence analyses of the antibody/antigen interactions demonstrated that the transition to promiscuous antigen-binding was accompanied by a change in the type of non-covalent forces involved in the complex formation. Moreover, from this study, it is evident that an antibody molecule could use two distinct thermodynamic pathways for binding to the same antigen while retaining the same value of the binding affinity. The obtained results may contribute to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms that lay behind natural antibody polyspecificity.
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- Jordan D Dimitrov
- Department of Immunology, Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G.Bonchev St., Block 26, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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We identified 1113 articles (103 reviews, 1010 primary research articles) published in 2005 that describe experiments performed using commercially available optical biosensors. While this number of publications is impressive, we find that the quality of the biosensor work in these articles is often pretty poor. It is a little disappointing that there appears to be only a small set of researchers who know how to properly perform, analyze, and present biosensor data. To help focus the field, we spotlight work published by 10 research groups that exemplify the quality of data one should expect to see from a biosensor experiment. Also, in an effort to raise awareness of the common problems in the biosensor field, we provide side-by-side examples of good and bad data sets from the 2005 literature.
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- Rebecca L Rich
- Center for Biomolecular Interaction Analysis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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