量子点与人源抗谷胱甘肽单链抗体的连接与表征

用已构建的表达载体pPELB-B3, 在大肠杆菌Rosetta中可溶性表达人源抗谷胱甘肽(GSH)单链抗体B3(scFv-B3), 经Ni2+螯合亲和层析纯化后, 用点印迹法验证了其与GSH结合的特异性. 将水相合成的半导体纳米粒子(半导体量子点, QDs)在N-羟基琥珀酰亚胺(NHS)和1-乙基-3-(3-二甲基氨基丙基)碳酰二亚胺盐酸盐(EDC)的作用下, 与scFvs连接. 光谱分析和膜印迹结果表明, scFvs成功地共价连接到QDs表面, 所得的QD-scFvs复合物能够较好地识别GSH. 荧光显微镜观察QD-scFvs与人乳腺癌细胞MCF-7的作用结果, 初步判断QD-scFvs能够跨膜进入细胞.     

Theoretical Design of Catalytic Domain of Abzyme Se-scFv2F3 by Introducing a Catalytic Triad

The single chain antibody scFv2F3 can be converted into selenium-containing Se-scFv2F3 by chemical mutation of the Ser residues. With antibody fragment 1NQB as a template, the catalytic domain of scFv2F3 was built by using homology modeling and molecular dynamics(MD) simulations. On the basis of the 3D model, we discussed the importance of Ser52 as the chemical modification site and redesigned the protein groups nearby Ser52 via introducing a catalytic triad. The following 10 ns MD results show that the des...     

Rapid Selection of Phage Se-scFv with GPX Activity via Combination of Phage Display Antibody Library with Chemical Modification

IntroductionReactive oxygen species(ROS) are known to de-stroy biomacromolecules and cause cell injury[1]. Un-der normal circumstances, there is a balance betweenthe production of ROS and their destruction. Many dis-eases, such as brain ischemia, tumor, v…     

Chemical Chaperones Increasing Expression Level of Soluble Single-chain Fv Antibody（scFv2F3）

IntroductionGlutathione peroxidase(GPX, EC 1·11·1·9) is aselenoenzyme that protects the biomembrane and othercellular components againstoxidative damage[1—3]. Itisclosely related with several diseases[4—7]. Because ofthe disadvantages of native GPX,     

具有GPX活力的抗体片段Fv的制备和性质

具有谷胱甘肽(GSH)结合部位的鼠抗体3H₄(IgM)经胃蛋白酶水解,产生分子量为25000的抗体Fv片段,用荧光滴定法测定了它与GSH的亲和常数K_a=1.17×10₇L/mol.该片段经苯甲基磺酰氟活化,再经NaHSe作用,其结合部位的丝氨酸被突变为谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶(GPX)的催化基团硒代半胱氨酸.突变后的Fv片段表现出很高的GPX活性,其活力高达2500U/μmol,称为Fv抗体酶.动力学分析表明,Fv酶的最适温度为55℃,最适pH为7.0,催化机制为乒乓机制,米氏常数分别为:K_m(GSH)=4.16×10^-3mol/L,K_m(H₂O₂)=2.8×10^-4mol/L.     

具有谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶活性的含硒人源单链抗体的制备

以谷胱甘肽(GSH)为靶抗原, 从噬菌体展示人源单链抗体库中筛选人源单链抗体(scFv). 经3轮筛选后, 用ELISA方法检测出5个(2, 11, 16, 24, 32 )可以和GSH结合的克隆. PCR产物的电泳和测序结果表明, 只有3个克隆(11, 16, 24)具有完整的scFv编码基因. 选取和GSH结合力高的克隆11的scFv 编码基因组装到表达载体pPELB上, 在大肠杆菌Rosetta中进行可溶性表达, 用Ni2+螯合亲和层析纯化scFv-11, 免疫点印迹结果证实该抗体能与GSH特异结合. 通过化学突变将scFv-11的丝氨酸转变成硒代半胱氨酸(Sec)后, 获得了具有谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶(GPX)活力的含硒(Se)人源单链抗体(Se-scFv-11), 其活力为351 U/μmol.     

A semisynthetic glutathione peroxidase with high catalytic efficiency. Selenoglutathione transferase

Glutathione peroxidase (GPX) protects cells against oxidative damage by catalyzing the reduction of hydroperoxides by glutathione (GSH). GPX therefore has potential therapeutic value as an antioxidant, but its pharmacological development has been limited because GPX uses a selenocysteine as its catalytic group and it is difficult to generate selenium-containing proteins with traditional recombinant DNA technology. Here, we show that naturally occurring proteins can be modified to generate GPX activity. The rat theta-class glutathione transferase T2-2 (rGST T2-2) presents an ideal scaffold for the design of a novel GPX catalyst because it already binds GSH and contains a serine close to the substrate binding site, which can be chemically modified to bind selenium. The modified Se-rGST T2-2 efficiently catalyzes the reduction of hydrogen peroxide, and the GPX activity surpasses the activities of some natural GPXs.     

Antioxidant Effect of Selenium-containing Glutathione S-Transferase in Rat Cardiomyocytes

As one of the most important antioxidant enzymes, glutathione peroxidase(GPX) protects cells and tissues from oxidative damage, and plays an important role in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular injuries induced by oxidative stress. The antioxidant effect of selenium-containing glutathione S-transferase(Se-GST), a mimic of GPX was investigated on rat cardiomyocytes. To explore the protection function of Se-GST in hydrogen peroxide(H₂O₂) challenged rat cardiomyocytes, we examined malondialdehyde(MDA), lactate dehydrogenase(LDH), superoxide dismutase( SOD) and cell apoptosis. The results demonstrate exposure of rat cardiomyocytes to H₂O₂ for 6 and 12 h induced the significant increases of MDA, LDH and apoptosis rate of cardiomyocytes, but pretreatment of rat cardiomyocytes with Se-GST at 0.0005 or 0.001 unit/mL prevents oxidative stress induced by H₂O₂ with the decreases of cell apoptosis. All the results hint Se-GST has antioxidant activity for oxidative stress challenged rat cardiomyocytes.     

Routes to covalent catalysis by reactive selection for nascent protein nucleophiles

Reactivity-based selection strategies have been used to enrich combinatorial libraries for encoded biocatalysts having revised substrate specificity or altered catalytic activity. This approach can also assist in artificial evolution of enzyme catalysis from protein templates without bias for predefined catalytic sites. The prevalence of covalent intermediates in enzymatic mechanisms suggests the universal utility of the covalent complex as the basis for selection. Covalent selection by phosphonate ester exchange was applied to a phage display library of antibody variable fragments (scFv) to sample the scope and mechanism of chemical reactivity in a naive molecular library. Selected scFv segregated into structurally related covalent and noncovalent binders. Clones that reacted covalently utilized tyrosine residues exclusively as the nucleophile. Two motifs were identified by structural analysis, recruiting distinct Tyr residues of the light chain. Most clones employed Tyr32 in CDR-L1, whereas a unique clone (A.17) reacted at Tyr36 in FR-L2. Enhanced phosphonylation kinetics and modest amidase activity of A.17 suggested a primitive catalytic site. Covalent selection may thus provide access to protein molecules that approximate an early apparatus for covalent catalysis.     

Nonradiochemical DNase I footprinting by capillary electrophoresis

A new application for DNase I footprinting using capillary electrophoresis (CE) has been developed in order to decrease analysis time and to eliminate the use of radiochemicals. An additional advantage of the new method over the traditional radioactive methods is that the DNA probe can be labeled on both ends with different fluorescein dyes. This provides an internal check of the identification of protein-binding sites on DNA, because the binding region can be observed from both DNA strands. The initial parameters for the CE method were developed using the Promega Core Footprinting Kit for analysis of AP-2 binding sites in the SV40 enhancer sequence. After optimization of the method, the protocol was found to be effective for footprint analysis of the immediate upstream region (bases -1 to -370) of the rat glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and it permitted identification of a previously unknown binding site in the upstream sequence of the GPX gene.     

Bioimprinted protein exhibits glutathione peroxidase activity

A strategy for design of bioimprinted proteins with glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity has been proposed. The proteins imprinted with a glutathione derivative were converted into selenium-containing proteins by chemical modifying the reactive hydroxyl groups of serines followed by sodium hydrogen selenide displacement. These selenium-containing proteins exhibited remarkable GPX activities and the GPX activities of reduction of H₂O₂ by glutathione (GSH) were found to be 101-817 U μmol⁻¹, which approaches the activity of a selenium-containing catalytic antibody elicited by a hapten similar to our template. The steady state kinetic study for imprinted protein catalysis revealed Michaelis-Menten kinetics for both H₂O₂ and GSH, e.g. the pesudo-first-order rate constant k_cat (H₂O₂) and the apparent Michaelis constant K_m (H₂O₂) at 1 mM GSH were calculated to be 784 min⁻¹ and 1.24×10⁻³ M, respectively, and the apparent second-order rate constant k_cat (H₂O₂)/K_m (H₂O₂) was determined to be 6.33×10⁵ (M min)⁻¹. The kinetics and the template inhibition showed that the strategy might be a remarkably efficient one for generating artificial enzyme with GPX activity.     

基于M13噬菌体展示单链抗体文库的新型蛋白质均衡器的研制及其在肾病患者尿蛋白分析中的应用

通过将展示单链抗体(scFv)文库的M13噬菌体固定于冷凝胶整体柱表面制备了一种新型蛋白质均衡器。由于展示的scFv片段具有种类多、数目大以及与蛋白质结合的特异性强等优点,因此其非常适合用于复杂蛋白质样品的预处理。将肾病患者尿蛋白在平衡器上反复上样5次后,依次使用2 mol/L NaCl、50 mmol/L Gly-HCl(pH 2.5)和凝血酶溶液洗脱与均衡器结合的蛋白质,收集各馏分,并采用串联微柱反相液相色谱-电喷雾质谱进行蛋白质的分离鉴定。与未经均衡器处理的样品相比,鉴定的蛋白质数目由142个提高到396个。此外,凝胶电泳的分析结果显示,在上样流出液中蛋白质的浓度差异明显变小,大量的高丰度蛋白质存在于NaCl洗脱液中。上述结果表明,基于M13噬菌体展示scFv文库的新型蛋白质均衡器能够有效减小样品中蛋白质的浓度差异,有利于发现更多的低丰度蛋白质。     

二乙氧基硫代磷酸酯类有机磷农药单链抗体的制备及广谱特异性

从分泌抗二乙氧基硫代磷酸酯类有机磷农药(DPPs)单克隆抗体(MAb)的杂交瘤细胞系(12C2)中提取了总RNA, 经RT-PCR反转录成cDNA, 设计带linker引物, 采用重叠延伸PCR制备单链抗体(scFv)基因, 将其克隆到噬菌体载体p3MH中, 构建成噬菌体单链抗体表达载体, 转化大肠杆菌表达出噬菌体表面展示scFv, 对经过Phage-ELISA鉴定的阳性克隆进行噬菌体外壳蛋白基因geneⅢ的去除, 用IPTG诱导其可溶性表达, 对表达产物进行SDS-PAGE, Western-Blot及ELISA鉴定, 并与亲本MAb进行性能对比. 结果表明, 可溶性表达的scFv分子量为27000; scFv与DPPs的交叉反应率比其亲本MAb提高了1.3~3.5倍, 表明其广谱特异性有所提高. 由于scFv与MAb相比具有诸多优点, 因此本研究为有机磷农药多残留检测方法的建立提供了一种更广谱、 更灵敏的新型识别分子.     

以透明质酸为骨架的新型谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶(GPX)模拟酶的制备及性质研究

用修饰法合成以透明质酸为骨架的两种新型GPX模拟酶: 硒化透明质酸SeHA及碲化透明质酸TeHA. 用红外光谱和核磁共振波谱对模拟酶的结构进行研究, 证明其修饰位点位于透明质酸的N-乙酰氨基葡萄糖的—CH2OH. 用二硫代双硝基苯甲酸(DTNB)法测定模拟酶的硒含量为1.2%. 通过模拟酶对3种不同底物过氧化氢(H2O2)、过氧化氢正丁烷(t-BuOOH)和过氧化氢异丙苯(CuOOH)的催化活性的研究结果表明CuOOH为该反应的最佳底物. 研究模拟酶催化谷胱甘肽(GSH)还原3种过氧化物的动力学发现, 反应速率与底物浓度的双倒数曲线均为平行的直线, 说明模拟酶反应的动力学机制与天然GPX相同, 为乒乓机制. 用2,4-二叔丁基甲基苯酚(BHT)法证明了该催化反应为非自由基机理, 且模拟酶不易被碘乙酸抑制.     

GSH对两种谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶模拟物活性影响的研究

设计并合成了谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶(GPX)模拟物6A,6A’-二苯胺-6B,6B’-二硒桥联-β-环糊精(6-AnSeCD). 采用双酶偶联法测定GPX的活力结果显示, 6A,6A’-二环己胺-6B,6B’-二硒桥联-β-环糊精(6-CySeCD)催化谷胱甘肽还原H2O2和枯烯H2O2的活力均比6-AnSeCD的高. 为了进一步考察6-CySeCD和6-AnSeCD与GSH之间的相互作用, 进行了分子动力学(MD)模拟和分子对接研究. 结果表明, 与GSH的结合使GPX模拟物的构象发生变化, 这种改变可能是影响桥连GPX模拟物催化活性的关键因素.     

Organotellurium-bridged cyclodextrin dimers as artificial glutathione peroxidase models

To elucidate the importance of the goodness of fit in complexes between substrates and glutathione peroxidise (GPX) mimics, we examined the decomposition of a variety of structurally distinct hydroperoxides at the expense of glutathione (GSH) catalyzed by 2,2′-ditellurobis(2-deoxy-γ-cyclodextrin) (2-Te-γ-CD), and by the corresponding derivatives of β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and α-cyclodextrin. The good fit of the cumene group into the γ-CD binding cavity reflected the result of well-defined reaction geometry, leading to the most excellent peroxidase activity with high substrate specificity. Furthermore, the catalytic constant and the combination with the best binding also exhibited the highest regioselectivity in the substrate decomposition. Saturation kinetics were observed and the catalytic reaction agreed with a ping-pong mechanism, in analogy with natural GPX, and might exert its thiol peroxidase activity via tellurol, tellurenic acid, and tellurosulfide. The stoichiometry of the inclusion complex was determined to be of 2:1 host-to-guest. The value of stability constant K _c for (2-Te-γ-CD)₂/GSH at room temperature was calculated to be 3.815?×?10⁴?M^?2, which suggested that 2-Te-γ-CD had a moderate ability to bind GSH. Importantly, the proposed mode of the (2-TeCD)₂/GSH complex was the possible important noncovalent interactions between enzymes and substrates in influencing catalysis and binding.     

Comparison of the effects of different antiviral treatments on the antioxidant systems of stroma-free hemoglobin

The effect of virus inactivation by 1,9-dimethylmethylene blue (DMMB) phototreatment, methylene blue (MB) phototreatment or heat on the activities of antioxidant systems of stroma-free hemoglobin (SFH) was studied. DMMB photoinactivated human immunodeficiency virus by > 3.69 log10 under conditions that inactivated 3.33 log10 of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). Under conditions which inactivated VSV by 6.10 log10 (1.37 J/cm2 irradiation and 2 microM DMMB), there was little change in the methemoglobin (Met-Hb) formation, concentration of reduced glutathione (GSH), or superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) or glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activities. However, the activity of glutathione reductase (GR) was decreased by 77%. Under conditions that inactivated VSV by 5.69 log10 (1.37 J/cm2 irradiation and 24 microM MB) there was little effect of MB phototreatment on SOD, CAT, GPX and GSH activities. However, GR activity was decreased by 74% and Met-Hb content reached 3.98%. Under conditions that inactivated VSV by more than 6.20 log10 (60 degrees C for 2 min), virucidal heat treatment resulted in 27% Met-Hb formation and decreased GPX activity by 43%. No significant decline in SOD, CAT or GR activities or GSH concentration was observed. These results suggest that, compared with heat treatment and MB phototreatment, virucidal DMMB treatment preserves not only the oxidative state of hemoglobin but also the antioxidant systems against superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, although the reduced GR activity may limit the quenching capacity of antioxidants in DMMB-treated SFH.     

新型兼具GPX,SOD, CAT活性的水杨醛Schiff碱衍生物的合成

以5-磺基水杨醛为母体, 经氯甲基化和硒化反应引入催化基团-SeH, 此化合物经空气氧化、Schiff碱反应以及锰螯合反应, 最终得到一种新型的水杨醛Schiff碱类谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶(GPX)模拟物. 测定了该模拟物的红外光谱、核磁共振谱、质谱和抗氧化能力. 此模拟物同时兼具超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)和过氧化氢酶(CAT)活性, 水溶性好, 保护线粒体免遭氧化损伤能力强, 具有作为药物前体的潜力.     

Cyanide Hydratase Modification Using Computational Design and Docking Analysis for Improved Binding Affinity in Cyanide Detoxification

Cyanide is a hazardous and detrimental chemical that causes the inactivation of the respiration system through the inactivation of cytochrome c oxidase. Because of the limitation in the number of cyanide-degrading enzymes, there is a great demand to design and introduce new enzymes with better functionality. This study developed an integrated method of protein-homology-modelling and ligand-docking protein-design approaches that reconstructs a better active site from cyanide hydratase (CHT) structure. Designing a mutant CHT (mCHT) can improve the CHT performance. A computational design procedure that focuses on mutation for constructing a new model of cyanide hydratase with better activity was used. In fact, this study predicted the three-dimensional (3D) structure of CHT for subsequent analysis. Inducing mutation on CHT of Trichoderma harzianum was performed and molecular docking was used to compare protein interaction with cyanide as a ligand in both CHT and mCHT. By combining multiple designed mutations, a significant improvement in docking for CHT was obtained. The results demonstrate computational capabilities for enhancing and accelerating enzyme activity. The result of sequence alignment and homology modeling show that catalytic triad (Cys-Glu-Lys) was conserved in CHT of Trichoderma harzianum. By inducing mutation in CHT structure, MolDock score enhanced from −18.1752 to −23.8575, thus the nucleophilic attack can occur rapidly by adding Cys in the catalytic cavity and the total charge of protein in pH 6.5 is increased from −6.0004 to −5.0004. Also, molecular dynamic simulation shows a stable protein-ligand complex model. These changes would help in the cyanide degradation process by mCHT.     

Expression and Secretion of a CB4-1 scFv–GFP Fusion Protein by Fission Yeast

There is a rapidly growing demand for fluorescent single-chain Fv (scFv) antibody fragments for many applications. Yeasts have developed into attractive hosts for recombinant production of these functionalized proteins because they provide several advantages over prokaryotes and higher eukaryotes as expression systems, e.g., being capable of high-level secretion of heterologous proteins. In this study, we report Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a new host organism for secretory production of scFv-green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions and compare it with previously described yeast expression systems. We cloned a plasmid for the expression and secretion of the anti-p24 (human immunodeficiency virus 1) CB4-1 scFv fused to GFP. After expression of the scFv–GFP fused to an N-terminal Cpy1 secretion signal sequence, fluorescence microscopy of living yeast cells indicated that the heterologous protein entered the secretory pathway. Western blot analysis of cell-free culture supernatants confirmed that the scFv–GFP was efficiently secreted with yields up to 5 mg/L. In addition, fluorescence measurements of culture supernatants demonstrated that the GFP moiety of the scFv–GFP protein is fully functional after secretion. Our data suggest that S. pombe has the potential for being used as alternative expression host in recombinant antibody fragment production by ensuring efficient protein processing and secretion.