发布: 2020年09月20日第10卷第18期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3759 浏览次数: 4544
评审: Alessandro DidonnaDiego Acosta-AlvearMaria Dermit
Abstract
Highly sensitive quantitative protein profiling can play a key role in the early diagnosis of diseases, such as autoimmune diseases and cancer. We developed a modified protein-oligonucleotide conjugation method termed HaloTag-mediated barcoding, for quantifying protein molecules at a higher sensitivity than conventional protein quantification methods. This novel and efficient conjugation method can be used to prepare HaloTag-barcoded proteins using a click chemistry-based labeling technique. Here, we describe the preparation of protein-DNA complexes and detection of protein-protein interactions which can be used in a HaloTag protein barcode assay to detect an antibody. The protocol includes procedures for preparing the ligand-oligonucleotide complex, plasmid DNA preparation for protein expression, and preparation of the protein-oligonucleotide complex. The described click reaction-based protocols simplify the conventional amine-ester reaction methods which require additional steps for chromatography purification.
Keywords: Protein barcoding (蛋白质条形码)Background
Protein molecules can be quantified by conventional experimental approaches such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, western blotting, and mass spectrometry. These conventional quantitative protein profiling techniques involve the use of calibration curves for relative measure, without considering the high sensitivity of DNA amplification, that limits the detection of the absolute amount of proteins itself. Chemical proteomics have made possible multiplex assays in a relative quantification manner, such as tandem mass tag labelling methods coupled with mass spectrometry (Thompson et al., 2003). Protein barcoding methods coupled with next-generation sequencing have emerged to identify target protein molecules; these methods include CITE-seq, Ab-seq, and LIBRA-seq for detecting antibody-antigen interactions (Shahi et al., 2017; Stoeckius et al., 2017, Setliff et al., 2019). A high-affinity capture tag, known as the HaloTag, mediated conjugation method was developed with double stranded DNA through amide-bond coupled with high performance liquid chromatography for complex purification (Gu et al., 2014). Here we describe a protocol for a novel protein–oligonucleotide conjugation method involving the HaloTag. This method is advantageous compared to other conjugation methods because it is easy to accurately determine the number of fused protein molecules, as HaloTag-labeled proteins irreversibly bind to the small chemical ligand chloroalkane, which connects to the DNA oligonucleotide barcode in a 1:1 ratio (Yazaki et al., 2020). Additionally, click chemistry-based HaloTag barcode conjugation requires less labor and time by eliminating the need for chromatography purification compared to other conjugation methods where the number and the position of tagging DNA on proteins varies (Gu et al., 2014, Stoeckius et al., 2017, Setliff et al., 2019). This method can be adapted for additional applications, including the identification of antibody-antigen interactions for clinical diagnosis. This technology can also be adapted for single B-cell receptor sequencing to capture antigen-specific cells.
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Yazaki, J. (2020). Novel Protein-oligonucleotide Conjugation Method Involving a High-affinity Capture HaloTag. Bio-protocol 10(18): e3759. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3759.
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生物化学 > 蛋白质 > 修饰
分子生物学 > 蛋白质 > 蛋白质-DNA结合
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