Cell Surface Targeting 8/7/06
Progress/agenda Streptavidin BioBricks –Sequencing for QuikChange-mutagenized single-chain dimer streptavidin showed 141bp deletion # –Performed QuikChange mutagenesis on SCD streptavidin clones originally received in pET22 vector. Received new streptavidin clone (pTSA13) from Dr. Takeshi Sano –Plan to extract mutagenized clones and pTSA13 by PCR Lpp-OmpA assembly with streptavidin –Ligations have been unsuccessful, possibly due to attempted use of NEB T4 DNA Ligase when the Roche Rapid DNA Ligase ran out. Also received two Lpp-OmpA constructs from Georgiou lab. –Plans to retry ligations with new Rapid DNA ligase kit, and BioBrick-PCR Georgiou constructs B0032 (ribosome binding site BioBrick) –Transformed and confirmed DNA sequence –Plans to ligate R0010 (Lac promoter) and B0032 upstream of Lpp-OmpA-Strep
Adaptamers
Outline Gel shifts Streptavidin beads New designs What’s next
Outline Gel shifts Streptavidin beads New designs What’s next
A20 A35 A50 Link-aptamer T35 S35 S50 T20 S20 T50
Shift! (but is it due to thrombin?) 1: SeeBlue Plus 2 ladder 2: thrombin 3: thrombin + T35 4: thrombin + S35 5: thrombin + T35 + S35 6: 1kb+ ladder 7: T35 8: T35 + thrombin 9: S35 10: S35 + thrombin 11: S35 + T35 12: S35 + T35 + thrombin % polyacrylamide gel; Tris-Glycine Buffer White background stained for protein; black background stained for DNA
Hopefully. 1: SeeBlue Plus 2 ladder 2: thrombin 3: thrombin + T35 4: thrombin + S35 5: thrombin + T35 + S35 6: 25 bp ladder 7: T35 8: T35 + thrombin 9: S35 10: S35 + thrombin 11: S35 + T35 12: S35 + T35 + thrombin Meanwhile, pure thrombin aptamer does not show a shift. Larger weight of A35 (=S35+T35) may be factor % polyacrylamide gel;.5X TBE Buffer
No shift for A20 1: SeeBlue Plus 2 ladder 2: thrombin 3: thrombin + T50 4: thrombin + S50 5: thrombin + T50 + S50 6: 25bp ladder 7: T50 8: T50 + thrombin 9: S50 10: S50 + thrombin 11: S50 + T50 12: S50 + T50 + thrombin % polyacrylamide gel; Tris-Glycine Buffer
Shift for A50 1: SeeBlue Plus 2 ladder 2: thrombin 3: thrombin + T50 4: thrombin + S50 5: thrombin + T50 + S50 6: 1kb+ ladder 7: T50 8: T50 + thrombin 9: S50 10: S50 + thrombin 11: S50 + T50 12: S50 + T50 + thrombin % polyacrylamide gel; Tris-Glycine Buffer
No shifts for streptavidin (A20, A35) 1: SeeBlue Plus 2 ladder 2: streptavdin 3: streptavidin + TN 4: streptavidin + SN 5: streptavidin + TN + SN 6: ladder N= 20; 12% gel, Tris-glycine buffer 7: TN 8: TN + streptavidin 9: SN 10: SN + streptavidin 11: SN + TN 12: SN + TN + streptavidin N= 35; 6% gel,.5X TBE
Outline Gel shifts Streptavidin beads New designs What’s next
Streptavidin Beads First try: botched control, botched washes
Second try 1: ladder 2: 40 pmol S0 3: 10 uL SB + 40 pmol S0 4: 25 uL SB + 40 pmol S0 5: 50 uL SB + 40 pmol S0 6: 100 uL SB + 40 pmol S0 7: 150 uL SB + 40 pmol S0 8: T35 (50bp, single stranded oligo) 9: 150uL TB + 40 pmol S0 S0: streptavidin aptamer (40 bp single stranded) SB: streptavidin beads TB: thrombin beads Above: Elutions with streptavidin Below: Washes with buffer
Outline Gel shifts Streptavidin beads New designs What’s next
Designing adaptamer linkers Problems: adaptamer linker sequences can basepair to aptamer regions or to self
Designing adaptamer linkers Program to evolve optimal adaptamers Minimize number of 4-mers that have bad basepairing properties –Metropolis algorithm –Start with random sequence, repeatedly identify “worst” 4-mer, mutate with some probability
Results S50 T50 Streptavidin aptamer Thrombin aptamer
New designs Thrombin aptamer Streptavidin aptamer
Outline Gel shifts Streptavidin beads New designs What’s next
Ordered fluorescently labeled aptamers; will try nitrocellulose filter assay Order new designs with/without fluorophores. Retry streptavidin-agarose bead assay with full adaptamers; maybe even see if thrombin can bind together FRET experiment? Design Biacore experiment.