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In der Masterarbeit wurde ein Screening gegen den CCMV mit einer linearen Peptidbibliothek entwickelt, wobei zwei lineare Binder identifiziert wurden. Das resynthetisierte Peptid wurde auf seine Bindungseigenschaften mittels ELISA und MST untersucht. Aufgrund eines Aminosäurefehlers in der selbst durchgeführten Resynthese des Peptids sind die Ergebnisse nicht vollständig übertragbar. Um eine umsetzbare Cyclusgröße für die Peptidbibliothek zu finden, wurden Ringgrößen mit sechs bis acht Aminosäuren untersucht. Da keiner der gewählten Ringgrößen bevorzugt war, wurde die Ringgröße aus acht Aminosäuren für die Peptidbibliothek gewählt. Der Ringschluss wurde durch die Bildung einer Disulfidbrücke erreicht. Dadurch war die Alkylierung der vorhandenen Thiolgruppe in den Abbruchsequenzen notwendig.
Neben den etablierten Alkylierungsreagenzien Iodessigsäure, Iodacetamid und Acrylamid wurden zwei Epoxide mituntersucht. Hierbei konnte nur bei Acrylamid und Propylenoxid eine vollständige Alkylierung beobachtet werden. Eine synthetische Peptidbibliothek aus zehn Aminosäuren pro Kopplungsschritt und einer Peptidlänge von acht Aminosäuren wurde erfolgreich nach der Split-and-Mix-Synthese hergestellt. Neben den kanonischen Aminosäuren wurde die synthetische Aminosäure 3-(3-Pyridyl)-alanin in die Peptidbibliothek mit eingebaut. Peptidsequenzen aus der cyclische Peptidbibliothek konnte mittels MALDI-TOF-MS identifiziert werden. Es konnte außerdem gezeigt werden, dass synthetische Aminosäuren mit proteinogenen Aminosäuren erfolgreich übersetzt werden. Anschließend wurde das entwickelte Screening auf eine cyclische Peptidbibliothek übertragen. Dabei konnte kein Binder identifiziert werden, da zu viele Nebenreaktionen auftraten. Ein alternativer Ringschluss über die Seitenketten von Lysin und Cystein wurden mit ortho-Phthaldialdehyd und 2,4,6-Trichloro-1,3,5-triazin (Cyanurchlorid) untersucht. Beide Bedingungen wiesen keinen erfolgreichen Ringschluss auf. Obwohl der Ringschluss über die Seitenketten von Lysin und Cystein nicht erfolgreich war, sollte ein Austausch von Cystein angestrebt werden, so dass kein freies Cystein in den Abbruchsequenzen vorhanden ist und die Alkylierung überflüssig wäre. Der Ringschluss durch Verwendung anderer Seitenketten bietet einen vielseitigen Ansatz.
Vergleichende Darstellung SARS-CoV-2-spezifischer Nanobodys aus unterschiedlichen Wirtsorganismen
(2021)
Aufgrund der anhaltenden COVID-19-Pandemie werden neutralisierende Therapeutika benötigt. Eine Möglichkeit zur Behandlung stellt die Verwendung monoklonaler Anti-SARS-CoV-2-Immun-globuline dar. Ihre Produktion in Säugetierzellen ist jedoch schwer skalierbar, um den weltweiten Bedarf zu decken. VHH-Antikörper, auch Nanobodys genannt, bieten hierfür eine Alternative, da sie eine hohe Temperaturstabilität aufweisen und eine kostengünstige Produktion in prokaryotischen Wirtsorganismen ermöglichen.
Small organic molecule drugs are one of the key classes, taking increasingly important roles in modern drug development strategies. With the focus on small molecule drugs, difficulties originate frequently from a pronounced lipophilic character, resulting in poor water solubility, low bioavailability and unfavored pharmacokinetics. Recently, peptide-poly(ethylene glycol) conjugates (peptide-PEG conjugates) were described as precisely tunable platforms to solubilize a broad scope of fluorescent or non-fluorescent small organic molecules [1-2]. Selection of drug hosting peptides was achieved by combinatorial means, which can further be extended by implementation of a drug release screening step.
One-bead-one-compound peptide libraries are powerful tools to select high affinity binders. However, the selection of positive hits from the peptide libraries remains tedious as it occurs by handpicking, strongly limiting the pool of investigated beads. Here we report our recent results on improving the analytical platform, using automated fluorescence scanning and MALDI-ToF-ToF MS/MS imaging to screen larger sets of beads, broadening the statistical base and unraveling more precisely suitable peptides. The screening puts special emphasis on loading capacities and drug-release of transporters by performing additional washing steps in different media (cf. Fig. 1). Peptides representing strong, medium, weak releaser were chosen for further analysis and synthesized as peptide-polymer transporters. Release was analyzed by fluorescence anisotropy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, due to the fluorescent characteristics of the drug.
Solubilization studies confirmed sufficient loading capacities for a potential anti-Alzheimer disease drug of three transporter molecules representing strong/weak drug releaser, reaching solubilization of up to 1:3.4 (µmol drug/µmol conjugate). Fluorescence anisotropy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy of the drug-loaded transporter showed significant differences in drug releasing properties, confirming the screening process.
Current trends in materials and life sciences are flanked by the need to push detection limits to single molecules or single cells, enable the characterization of increasingly complex matrices or sophisticated nanostructures, speed up the time of analysis, reduce instrument complexity and costs, and improve the reliability of data. This requires suitable analytical tools such as spectroscopic, separation and imaging techniques, mass spectrometry, and hyphenated techniques as well as sensors and their adaptation to application-specific challenges in the environmental, food, consumer product, health sector, nanotechnology, and bioanalysis. Increasing concerns about health threatening known or emerging pollutants in drinking water, consumer products, and food and about the safety of nanomaterials led to a new awareness of the importance of analytical sciences. Another important driver in this direction is the increasing demand by legislation, particularly in view of the 17 sustainable development goals by the United Nations addressing clean energy, industry, and innovation, sustainable cities, clean water, and responsible consumption and production. In this respect, also the development of analytical methods that enable the characterization of material flows in production processes and support recycling concepts of precious raw materials becomes more and more relevant. In the future, this will provide the basis for greener production in the chemical industry utilizing recycled or sustainable starting materials.
This makes analytical chemistry an essential player in terms of the circular economy helping to increase the sustainability of production processes. In the life sciences sector, products based on proteins, such as therapeutic and diagnostic antibodies, increase in importance. These increasingly biotechnologically produced functional biomolecules pose a high level of complexity of matrix and structural features that can be met only by highly advanced methods for separation, characterization, and detection. In addition, metrological traceability and target definition are still significant challenges for the future, particularly in the life sciences.
However, innovative reference materials as required for the health and food sector and the characterization of advanced materials can only be developed when suitable analytical protocols are available. The so-called reproducibility crisis in sciences underlines the importance of improved measures of quality control for all kinds of measurements and material characterization. This calls for thorough method validation concepts, suitable reference materials, and regular interlaboratory comparisons of measurements as well as better training of scientists in analytical sciences.
The important contribution of analytical sciences to these developments is highlighted by a broad collection of research papers, trend articles, and critical reviews from these different application fields. Special emphasis is dedicated to often-overlooked quality assurance and reference materials.
Homochirality is an obvious feature of life on Earth. On the other hand, extraterrestrial samples contain largely racemic compounds. The same is true for any common organic synthesis. Therefore, it has been a perplexing puzzle for decades how these racemates could have formed enantiomerically enriched fractions as a basis for the origin of homochiral life forms. Numerous hypotheses have been put forward as to how preferentially homochiral molecules could have formed and accumulated on Earth. In this article, it is shown that homochirality of the abiotic organic pool at the time of formation of the first self-replicating molecules is not necessary and not even probable. It is proposed to abandon the notion of a molecular ensemble and to focus on the level of individual molecules. Although the formation of the first self-replicating, most likely homochiral molecule is a seemingly improbable event, on a closer look, it is almost inevitable that homochiral molecules have formed simply on a statistical basis. In this case, the non-selective leap to homochirality would be one of the first steps in chemical evolution directly out of a racemic “ocean”. Moreover, most studies focus on the chirality of the primordial monomers with respect to an asymmetric carbon atom. However, any polymer with a minimal size that allows folding to a secondary structure, would spontaneously lead to asymmetric higher structures (conformations). Most of the functions of these polymers would be influenced by this inherently asymmetric folding. To summarize, simple and universal mechanisms may have led to homochiral self-replicating systems in the context of chemical evolution. A homochiral monomer pool is deemed unnecessary and probably never existed on primordial Earth.
Spheriplex multiplexed immunoassays: A practical tool for environmental, food and bioanalysis
(2019)
Clinical, environmental, and food analysis, require efficient and accurate quantitative analysis. Immunoassays take advantage of highly selective and affine binding of an antibody towards an antigen, being easy-to-use and allowing for high sample throughput. However, common immunoassays, e. g. ELISA are not capable of multiplexed analysis, thus limiting possible applications. On the other hand, multi-analyte methods, e.g. liquid chromatographytandem mass spectrometry requires expensive equipment, trained analysts and the time of analysis usually limits sample throughput. This bottleneck can be overcome combining the suspension array technology, where particles are encoded to allow multiplexed detection, with fluorescence immunoassays to create suspension array fluorescence immunoassays (SAFIA).
Polystyrene core/silica shell microparticles serve as platform for SAFIA. While an encoding dye is introduced in the polystyrene core, the silica shell is used for immobilization: For competitive hapten immunoassays small molecules are immobilized on the surface, serving as a competitive binding site for selective antibodies. For quantification of proteins, antibodies can be immobilized on the surface and the sandwich immunoassay format can be employed. All mentioned immunoassays can be executed wash-free and highly parallelized, allowing up to 500 determinations within three hours. In contrast to ELISA, short incubation times, a wash-free mix-and-read procedure and automated flow-cytometric read-out makes SAFIA applicable for even non-trained personal.
SAFIA showed excellent performance in studies on the origin and fate of drug residues in waste water, which is important to assess clearance rates of wastewater treatment plants. Furthermore, SAFIA can be employed in environmental screenings, detecting pollution of natural river waters by tracking anthropogenic marker substances. It was successfully employed in clinical and food analysis applications, e.g. the quantification of the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac in breast milk or the quantification of caffeine in beverages. Due to multiplexing capacities, SAFIA can significantly improve biotechnological processes, as in the screening of hybridoma cells for selective and efficient antibody production. For small molecule analytes, limits of detection down to 4 ng/L and for proteins below 25 ng/mL (IgG) were observed, which makes SAFIA applicable to all addressed analytical issues. Moreover, in the analysis of real-world samples, SAFIA shows higher accuracy in contrast to ELISA, indicating higher matrix stability and thus higher robustness in analysis.
Spec2Seq
(2018)
A novel stationary phase for affinity separations is presented. This material is based on sintered borosilicate glass readily available as semi-finished filter plates with defined porosity and surface area. The material shows fast binding kinetics and excellent long-term stability under real application conditions due to lacking macropores and high mechanical rigidity. The glass surface can be easily modified with standard organosilane chemistry to immobilize selective binders or other molecules used for biointeraction. In this paper, the manufacturing of the columns and their respective column holders by 3D printing is shown in detail. The model system protein A/IgG was chosen as an example to examine the properties of such monolithic columns under realistic application conditions. Several specifications, such as (dynamic) IgG capacity, pressure stability, long-term performance, productivity, non-specific binding, and peak shape, are presented. It could be shown that due to the very high separation speed, 250 mg antibody per hour and column can be collected, which surpasses the productivity of most standard columns of the same size. The total IgG capacity of the shown columns is around 4 mg (5.5 mg/mL), which is sufficient for most tasks in research laboratories. The cycle time of an IgG separation can be less than 1 minute. Due to the glass material's excellent pressure resistance, these columns are compatible with standard HPLC systems. This is usually not the case with standard affinity columns, limited to manual use or application in low-pressure systems. The use of a standard HPLC system also improves the ability for automation, which enables the purification of hundreds of cell supernatants in one day. The sharp peak shape of the elution leads to an enrichment effect, which might increase the concentration of IgG by a factor of 3. The final concentration of IgG can be around 7.5 mg/mL without the need for an additional nanofiltration step. The purity of the IgG was > 95% in one step and nearly 99% with a second polishing run.
Silicon photonic micro-ring resonators (MRR) developed on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform, owing to their high sensitivity and small footprint, show great potential for many chemical and biological sensing applications such as label-free detection in environmental monitoring, biomedical engineering, and food analysis. In this tutorial, we provide the theoretical background and give design guidelines for SOI-based MRR as well as examples of surface functionalization procedures for label-free detection of molecules.
After introducing the advantages and perspectives of MRR, fundamentals of MRR are described in detail, followed by an introduction to the fabrication methods, which are based on a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Optimization of MRR for chemical and biological sensing is provided, with special emphasis on the optimization of waveguide geometry. At this point, the difference between chemical bulk sensing and label-free surface sensing is explained, and definitions like waveguide sensitivity, ring sensitivity, overall sensitivity as well as the limit of detection (LoD) of MRR are introduced. Further, we show and explain chemical bulk sensing of sodium chloride (NaCl) in water and provide a recipe for label-free surface sensing.