Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3221 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, 205 N. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States.
ACS Appl Bio Mater. 2022 Dec 19;5(12):5665-5674. doi: 10.1021/acsabm.2c00709. Epub 2022 Oct 4.
Co-immobilization of multiple proteins onto one nanosupport has large potential in mimicking natural multiprotein complexes and constructing efficient cascade biocatalytic systems. However, control of different proteins regarding their spatial arrangement and loading ratio remains a big challenge, and protein co-immobilization often requires the use of purified proteins. Herein, built upon our recently designed SpyTag-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), we established a modular MNP platform for site-specific, tunable, and cost-effective protein co-immobilization. SpyCatcher-fused enhanced green fluorescent protein (i.e., EGFP-SpyCatcher) and mCherry red fluorescent protein (i.e., RFP-SpyCatcher) were designed and conjugated on MNPs, and the immobilized proteins showed 3-7-fold enhancement in storage stability and greatly improved stability against the freeze-thaw process compared to free proteins. The protein-conjugated MNPs also retained desirable colloidal stability and magnetic responsiveness, enabling facile proteins' recovery. Also, one-pot co-immobilization of the two proteins could be fine-tuned with their feed ratios. In addition, MNPs could selectively and efficiently co-immobilize both SpyCatcher-fused proteins from combined cell lysates without purification, offering a convenient and cost-effective approach for multiprotein immobilization. This MNP platform provides a facile and efficient tool to construct bionano hybrid materials (i.e., protein-based MNPs) and multiprotein systems for a variety of industrial and green chemistry applications.
多种蛋白质共固定在一个纳米载体上,在模拟天然多蛋白复合物和构建高效级联生物催化系统方面具有巨大潜力。然而,控制不同蛋白质的空间排列和加载比例仍然是一个巨大的挑战,并且蛋白质共固定通常需要使用纯化的蛋白质。在此基础上,基于我们最近设计的 SpyTag 功能化磁性纳米颗粒 (MNPs),我们建立了一种模块化的 MNP 平台,用于实现特异性、可调节和具有成本效益的蛋白质共固定。融合了 SpyCatcher 的增强型绿色荧光蛋白(即 EGFP-SpyCatcher)和 mCherry 红色荧光蛋白(即 RFP-SpyCatcher)被设计并连接到 MNPs 上,与游离蛋白质相比,固定化蛋白质的储存稳定性提高了 3-7 倍,对冻融过程的稳定性也大大提高。蛋白质偶联的 MNPs 还保留了理想的胶体稳定性和磁响应性,使蛋白质易于回收。此外,两种蛋白质的一锅共固定可以通过它们的进料比进行微调。此外,MNPs 可以从混合细胞裂解物中选择性和有效地共固定两种融合了 SpyCatcher 的蛋白质,而无需纯化,为多蛋白质固定提供了一种方便且具有成本效益的方法。该 MNP 平台为构建生物纳米杂化材料(即基于蛋白质的 MNPs)和多种蛋白质系统提供了一种简便有效的工具,适用于各种工业和绿色化学应用。