Abstract
The homogeneous labeling of antibodies and their fragments is a critical step for the generation of robust probes used in immuno-detection applications. To date, numerous chemical, genetic and peptide-based site-specific coupling methods have been developed. Among these methods, co-assembling peptide-tags is one of the most straightforward and versatile solutions. Here, we describe site-specific labeling of nanobodies through the use of two co-associating peptides tags, E3 and K3, originating from the tetramerization domain of p53. These E3 and K3-tags provide a simple and robust method for associating stoichiometric amount of VHH and fluorescent probes, either fluorescent proteins or fluorochromes, at specific positions. As a proof of concept, a nanobody targeting the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), the nano-HER2 was genetically fused to the E3 and associated with different fluorescent K3-derivates. Entities were produced separately in Escherichia coli in soluble forms at high yields and co-assembled in vitro. These molecular probes present high binding specificity on HER2-overexpressing cells in flow-cytometry with relative binding constants in the low nanomolar range and are stable enough to stain HER2-receptor on living cells followed detection using fluorescent confocal microscopy. Altogether, our results demonstrate that the non-covalent conjugation method using these two co-associating peptides can be easily implemented for the modular engineering of molecular probes for cell immuno-staining.
Funder
Ligue Régionale contre le Cancer
Fondation ARC pour la recherche sur le cancer
ITI Innovec
SFRI
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Strasbourg, the French Ministry of Research
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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