Journal
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 873, Issue -, Pages 63-70Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2015.02.053
Keywords
Aptamer; Gliadin; Gluten; 33-mer Peptide; Binding constant
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- Spanish Government
- Spanish Government Project [CTQ2012-31157]
- European Regional Development Fund
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Aptamers are starting to increase the reagents tool box to develop more sensitive and reliable methods for food allergens. In most of these assays, aptamers have to be modified for detection and/or immobilization purposes. To take full advantage of their affinity, which decisively influence the detectability, these modifications must be faced rationally. In this work, a recently developed aptamer for an immunotoxic peptide of gliadin associated to celiac disease is used in different configurations and modified with various markers and anchored groups to evaluate the influence of such modifications on the real affinity. The interaction in solution with the peptide is strong for a relatively small molecule (K-d = 45 +/- 10 nM, 17 degrees C) and slightly stronger than that for the immobilized intact protein due to a cooperative binding effect. Comparatively, while only minor differences were found when the peptide or the aptamer were immobilized, labeling with a biotin resulted preferable over fluorescein (K-d = 102 +/- 11 vs 208 +/- 54 nM, 25 degrees C). These findings are of prime importance for the design of an aptamer-based analytical method for gluten quantification. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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