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BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 31, Issue 5, Pages 1463-1473Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00156
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [R15GM119048]
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Sortase-mediated ligation is a powerful method for generating site-specifically modified proteins. However, this process is limited by the inherent reversibility of the ligation reaction. To address this, here we report the continued development and optimization of an experimentally facile strategy for blocking reaction reversibility. This approach, which we have termed metal-assisted sortase-mediated ligation (MA-SML), relies on the use of a solution additive (Ni2+) and a C-terminal tag (LPXTGGHH(5)) that is widely used for converting protein targets into sortase substrates. In a series of model systems utilizing a 1:1 molar ratio of sortase substrate and glycine amine nucleophile, we find that MA-SML consistently improves the extent of ligation. This enables the modification of proteins with fluorophores, PEG, and a bioorthogonal cyclooctyne moiety without the need to use precious reagents in excess. Overall, these results demonstrate the potential of MA-SML as a general strategy for improving reaction efficiency in a broad range of sortase-based protein engineering applications.
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