A Practical Guide for the Quality Evaluation of Fluobodies/Chromobodies

Author:

Štrancar Urša1,D’Ercole Claudia1ORCID,Cikatricisová Lucia1ORCID,Nakić Mirna1,De March Matteo1ORCID,de Marco Ario1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska cesta 13, Rožna Dolina, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Abstract

Background: Fluorescent proteins (FPs) are pivotal reagents for flow cytometry analysis or fluorescent microscopy. A new generation of immunoreagents (fluobodies/chromobodies) has been developed by fusing recombinant nanobodies to FPs. Methods: We analyzed the quality of such biomolecules by a combination of gel filtration and SDS-PAGE to identify artefacts due to aggregation or material degradation. Results: In the SDS-PAGE run, unexpected bands corresponding to separate fluobodies were evidenced and characterized as either degradation products or artefacts that systematically resulted in the presence of specific FPs and some experimental conditions. The elimination of N-terminal methionine from FPs did not impair the appearance of FP fragments, whereas the stability and migration characteristics of some FP constructs were strongly affected by heating in loading buffer, which is a step samples undergo before electrophoretic separation. Conclusions: In this work, we provide explanations for some odd results observed during the quality control of fluobodies and summarize practical suggestions for the choice of the most convenient FPs to fuse to antibody fragments.

Funder

Javne agencije za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije

Publisher

MDPI AG

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