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- Kronqvist, Nina, et al.
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A novel affinity protein selection system based on staphylococcal cell surface display and flow cytometry
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Ingår i: Protein Engineering Design & Selection. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1741-0126 .- 1741-0134. ; 21:4, s. 247-255
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Here we describe the first reported use of a Gram-positive bacterial system for the selection of affinity proteins from large combinatorial libraries displayed on the surface of Staphylococcus carnosus. An affibody library of 3 x 109 variants, based on a 58 residue domain from staphylococcal protein A, was pre-enriched for binding to human tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) using one cycle of phage display and thereafter transferred to the staphylococcal host (106 variants). The staphylococcal-displayed library was subjected to three rounds of flow-cytometric sorting, and the selected clones were screened and ranked by on-cell analysis for binding to TNF-alpha and further characterized using biosensor analysis and circular dichroism spectroscopy. The successful sorting yielded three different high-affinity binders (ranging from 95 pM to 2.2 nM) and constitutes the first selection of a novel affinity protein using Gram-positive bacterial display. The method combines the simplicity of working with a bacterial host with the advantages of displaying recombinant proteins on robust Gram-positive bacteria as well as using powerful flow cytometry in the selection and characterization process.
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- Kronqvist, Nina, et al.
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Simplified characterization through site-specific protease-mediated release of affinity proteins selected by staphylococcal display
- 2008
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Ingår i: FEMS Microbiology Letters. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0378-1097 .- 1574-6968. ; 278:1, s. 128-136
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The production of candidate affinity proteins in a soluble form, for downstream characterization, is often a time-consuming step in combinatorial protein engineering methods. Here, a novel approach for efficient production of candidate clones is described based on direct cleavage of the affinity protein from the surface of Staphylococcus carnosus, followed by affinity purification. To find a suitable strategy, three new fusion protein constructs were created, introducing a protease site for specific cleavage and purification tags for affinity chromatography purifications into the staphylococcal display vector. The three modified strains were evaluated in terms of transformation frequency, surface expression level and protease cleavage efficiency. A protocol for efficient affinity purification of protease-released affinity proteins using the introduced fusion-tags was successfully used, and the functionality of protease-treated and purified proteins was verified in a biosensor assay. To evaluate the devised method, a previously selected HER2-specific affibody was produced applying the new principle and was used to analyze HER2 expression on human breast cancer cells.
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- Kronqvist, Nina
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Staphylococcal surface display in directed evolution
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Engineered affinity proteins have together with naturally derived antibodies becomeindispensable tools in many areas of life-science and with the increasing number ofapplications, the need for high-throughput methods for generation of such different affinityproteins is evident. Today, combinatorial protein engineering is the most successful strategy toisolate novel non-immunoglobulin affinity proteins. In this approach, generally termed directedevolution, high-complexity combinatorial libraries are created from which affinity proteins areisolated using an appropriate selection method, thus circumventing the need for detailedknowledge of the protein structure or the binding mechanism, often necessary in more rationalapproaches. Since the introduction of the phage display technology that pioneered the field ofcombinatorial engineering, several alternative selection systems have been developed for thispurpose.This thesis describes the development of a novel selection system based onstaphylococcal surface display and its implementation in directed evolution approaches. In thefirst study, the transformation efficiency to the gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus carnosus wassuccessfully improved around 10,000-fold to a level that would allow cell surface display ofcomplex combinatorial protein libraries. In two separate studies, the staphylococcal displaysystem was investigated for the applicability in both de novo selection and affinity maturation ofaffibody molecules. First, using a pre-selection strategy with one round of phage display, ahigh-complexity affibody library was displayed on staphylococcal cells. Using fluorescenceactivatedcell sorting, binders with sub-nanomolar affinity to tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF-α) were isolated. Second, a combined approach using phage display for de novo selectionof first-generation affibody binders and staphylococcal display in a subsequent affinitymaturation selection was applied to generate binders with low nanomolar affinity to the humanepidermal growth factor receptor-3 (ErbB3). Moreover, in an additional study, thestaphylococcal surface display system was improved by the introduction of a protease 3Ccleavage sequence in the displayed fusion products in order to facilitate straightforwardproduction of soluble proteins for further downstream characterization.Altogether, the presented studies demonstrate that the staphylococcal selection systemindeed is a powerful tool for selection and characterization of novel affinity proteins and couldbecome an attractive alternative to existing selection techniques.
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- Löfblom, John, et al.
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Optimization of electroporation-mediated transformation : Staphylococcus carnosus as model organism
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Ingår i: Journal of Applied Microbiology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1364-5072 .- 1365-2672. ; 102:3, s. 736-747
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study was conducted with an aim to optimize the transformation efficiency of the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus carnosus to a level that would enable the creation of cell surface displayed combinatorial protein libraries. Methods and Results: We have thoroughly investigated a number of different parameters for: (i) the preparation of electrocompetent cells; (ii) the treatment of cells before electroporation; (iii) the electroporation step itself; and (iv) improved recovery of transformed cells. Furthermore, a method for heat-induced inactivation of the host cell restriction system was devised to allow efficient transformation of the staphylococci with DNA prepared from other species, such as Escherichia coli. Previously described protocols for S. carnosus, giving transformation frequencies of approximately 10(2) transformants per transformation could be improved to reproducible procedures giving around 10(6) transformants for a single electroporation event, using plasmid DNA prepared from either S. carnosus or E. coli. The transformed staphylococcal cells were analysed using flow cytometry to verify that the entire cell population retained the introduced plasmid DNA and expressed the recombinant protein in a functional form on the cell surface at the same level as the positive control population. Conclusions: The results demonstrate that the transformation frequency for S. carnosus could be dramatically increased through optimization of the entire electroporation process, and that the restriction barrier for interspecies DNA transfer, could be inactivated by heat treatment of the cells prior to electroporation. Significance and Impact of the Study: The generation of large combinatorial protein libraries, displayed on the surface of S. carnosus can be envisioned in the near future, thus dramatically improving the selection compared with the traditional biopanning procedure used in phage display.
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