School of Chemistry, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Adv Mater. 2017 Mar;29(10). doi: 10.1002/adma.201604245. Epub 2016 Dec 28.
In a new, versatile approach to fun-ction-alizing recombinant spider silk, L-azidohomoalanine is introduced residue-specifically in the minispidroin protein 4RepCT through expression in an E. coli methionine auxotroph. Both fluorophores and the antibiotic levofloxacin are attached to this bio-orthogonal amino acid using copper-catalyzed click chemistry, either before or after the silk fibers are self-assembled.
在一种新的、多功能的方法中,通过在大肠杆菌蛋氨酸营养缺陷型中表达,将 L-叠氮高丙氨酸残基特异性地引入到 minispidroin 蛋白 4RepCT 中,从而实现重组蜘蛛丝的功能化。使用铜催化的点击化学,无论是在纤维自组装之前还是之后,都可以将荧光团和抗生素左氧氟沙星连接到这种生物正交氨基酸上。