Proteins are attractive building blocks for construction of variant functional materials because of their chemical and structural diversities
and intrinsic functions. As the industry of biotechnology continues to expand
so does the expression of recombinant proteins with wide varieties. In this work
we adopted the recombinant protein technique to construct a new fusion protein
GFP-SA
as the building block of self-assemblies. The purification of GFP-SA was characterized by Superdex 75 size exclusive chromatography
SDS-PAGE
and MALDI-TOF. Then
GPC and native-PAGE were used to characterize the dimerization of GFP-SA based on the hydrogen bonds between neighboring SAs. Furthermore
ITC was employed to test the binding ability between GFP-SA and biotin
which revealed
K
D
= 0.24 μmol/L. In this study
we also designed and successfully synthesized the ligand RhYBio
2
which is composed of two biotin molecules and one rhodamine B molecule. The size of GFP-SA increased rapidly to 370 nm within one minute after mixing with RhYBio
2.
We measured the particle size of GFP-SA/RhYBio
2
mixture every few minutes until the size stabilized at around 1300 nm 2 h later. However
size variation was barely observed for the controlled samples of SA/RhYBio2 (controlled protein) and GFP-SA/YBio (controlled ligand). We hypothesized that the two biotin molecules of RhYBio
2
could bind specifically with SA and align GFP-SA/RhYBio
2
into nanowires
which assembled further into micro rings. Their size was measured by dynamic light scattering (DLS) while the morphology was observed intuitively on a transmission electron microscope (TEM) and a confocal microscope (CM). The characteristic results from TEM and CM suggested an uneven size distribution of the micro rings prepared
which might be attributable to the flexibility of the fusion protein GFP-SA. These micro rings of GFP-SA/RhYBio
2
with fluorescence has great potential for biological applications.
关键词
融合蛋白绿色荧光蛋白自组装微米环
Keywords
Fusion proteinGFPSelf-assemblyMicro rings
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