Nanobodies: site-specific labeling for super-resolution imaging, rapid epitope-mapping and native protein complex isolation.
Elife
; 4: e11349, 2015 Dec 03.
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ABSTRACT
Nanobodies are single-domain antibodies of camelid origin. We generated nanobodies against the vertebrate nuclear pore complex (NPC) and used them in STORM imaging to locate individual NPC proteins with <2 nm epitope-label displacement. For this, we introduced cysteines at specific positions in the nanobody sequence and labeled the resulting proteins with fluorophore-maleimides. As nanobodies are normally stabilized by disulfide-bonded cysteines, this appears counterintuitive. Yet, our analysis showed that this caused no folding problems. Compared to traditional NHS ester-labeling of lysines, the cysteine-maleimide strategy resulted in far less background in fluorescence imaging, it better preserved epitope recognition and it is site-specific. We also devised a rapid epitope-mapping strategy, which relies on crosslinking mass spectrometry and the introduced ectopic cysteines. Finally, we used different anti-nucleoporin nanobodies to purify the major NPC building blocks each in a single step, with native elution and, as demonstrated, in excellent quality for structural analysis by electron microscopy. The presented strategies are applicable to any nanobody and nanobody-target.
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Coloração e Rotulagem
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Mapeamento de Epitopos
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Complexo de Proteínas Formadoras de Poros Nucleares
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Substâncias Macromoleculares
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Anticorpos de Domínio Único
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Imagem Óptica
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Humans
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En
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Elife
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article
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Alemanha