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ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 10, Pages 2127-2132Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cb400406x
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- ERC [280255]
- European Research Council (ERC) [280255] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Detection of antibodies is essential for the diagnosis of many diseases including infections, allergies, and autoimmune diseases. Current heterogeneous immunoassays require multiple time-consuming binding and washing steps, which limits their application in point-of-care diagnostics and high-throughput screening. Here, we report switchable reporter enzymes that allow simple colorimetric detection of antibodies directly in solution. Our approach is based on the antibody-induced disruption of an intramolecular interaction between TEM1 beta-lactamase and its inhibitor protein BLIP. Using the HIV1-p17 antibody as an initial target, the interaction between enzyme and inhibitor was carefully tuned to yield a reporter enzyme whose activity increased 10-fold in the presence of pM antibody concentrations. Reporter enzymes for two other antibodies (HA-tag and Dengue virus type I) were obtained by simply replacing the epitope sequences. This new sensor design represents a modular and generic approach to construct antibody reporter enzymes without the cumbersome optimization required by previous engineering strategies.
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