期刊
ACS NANO
卷 15, 期 7, 页码 12161-12170出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c03677
关键词
antibodies; immunoglobulin G; transglutaminase; click chemistry; fluorescent probes; super-resolution microscopy; Monte Carlo simulations
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资金
- Holcim Science Foundation
- European Research Council [ERC CoG-724489, ERC StG-680241]
- DFG [397660978, JU 2957/1-1, SFB 1032/A11]
- QBM graduate school
- AiF [20436 N]
- Center for Nano-Science
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory
- ETH Zurich
- Max Planck Society/Foundation
- RCSI
In this study, a simple two-step protocol was developed to site-specifically attach reporters to IgG antibodies, and their performance in super-resolution microscopy techniques was evaluated. The results showed that errors from primary and secondary antibodies did not add up, and simulations revealed the main factors contributing to the errors.
The precise spatial localization of proteins in situ by super-resolution microscopy (SRM) demands their targeted labeling. Positioning reporter molecules as close as possible to the target remains a challenge in primary cells or tissues from patients that cannot be easily genetically modified. Indirect immunolabeling introduces relatively large linkage errors, whereas site-specific and stoichiometric labeling of primary antibodies relies on elaborate chemistries. In this study, we developed a simple two-step protocol to site-specifically attach reporters such as fluorophores or DNA handles to several immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies from different animal species and benchmarked the performance of these conjugates for 3D STORM (stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy) and DNA-PAINT (point accumulation in nanoscale topography). Glutamine labeling was restricted to two sites per IgG and saturable by exploiting microbial transglutaminase after removal of N-linked glycans. Precision measurements of 3D microtubule labeling shell dimensions in cell lines and human platelets showed that linkage errors from primary and secondary antibodies did not add up. Monte Carlo simulations of a geometric microtubule-IgG model were in quantitative agreement with STORM results. The simulations revealed that the flexible hinge between Fab and Fc segments effectively randomized the direction of the secondary antibody, while the restricted binding orientation of the primary antibody's Fab fragment accounted for most of the systematic offset between the reporter and a-tubulin. DNA-PAINT surprisingly yielded larger linkage errors than STORM, indicating unphysiological conformations of DNA-labeled IgGs. In summary, our cost-effective protocol for generating well-characterized primary IgG conjugates offers an easy route to precise SRM measurements in arbitrary fixed samples.
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