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FRONTIERS IN CHEMISTRY
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.570528
Keywords
aptamer; Western blot; in vitro selection; protein recognition; functional nucleic acid
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- National Key Research and Development Programof China [2016YFA0502600, 2019YFA0904000]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21708018, 21977046]
- Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation [BK20160617]
- Thousand Young Talents Program
- Program for Innovative Talents and Entrepreneur in Jiangsu
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Selective protein recognition is critical in molecular biology techniques such as Western blotting and ELISA. Successful detection of the target proteins in these methods relies on the specific interaction of the antibodies, which often bring a high production cost and require a long incubation time. Aptamers represent an alternative class of simple and affordable affinity reagents for protein recognition, and replacing antibodies with aptamers in Western blotting would potentially be more time- and cost-effective. In this work, multiple fluorescent DNA aptamers were isolated by in vitro selection to selectively label commonly used tag proteins including GST, MBP, and His-tag. The generated aptamers G1, M1, and H1 specifically bound to their cognate target proteins with nanomolar affinities, respectively. Compared with conventional antibody-based immunoblotting, such aptamer-based procedure gave a cleaner background and was able to selectively label target protein in a complex mixture. Lastly, the identified aptamers were also effective in recognition of different fusion proteins with the same tag, thus greatly expanding the scope of the potential applications of these aptamers. This work provided aptamers as useful molecular tools for selective protein recognition in Western blotting analysis.
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