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ArticleJournal of molecular biology2007

Antibody-induced oligomerization and activation of an engineered reporter enzyme.

Melissa L Geddie, Ichiro Matsumura

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Article in Journal of molecular biology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Melissa L GeddieDepartment of Biochemistry, Center for Fundamental and Applied Molecular Evolution, Emory University School of Medicine, Rollins Research Center, Room 4119, 1510 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Ichiro Matsumura

Funding

Directed evolution to diversify HIV protease functionR01GM074264 · NIGMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI MATSUMURA, ICHIRO · 2005 to 2009
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS 1 R01 GM074264-01NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM074264
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our objective is to produce a protein biosensor (or molecular switch) that is specifically activated in solution by a monoclonal antibody. Many effector-dependent enzymes have evolved in nature, but the introduction of a novel regulatory mechanism into a normally unregulated enzyme poses a difficult design problem. We used site-saturation mutagenesis and screening to generate effector-activated variants of the reporter enzyme beta-glucuronidase (GUS). The specific activity of the purified epitope-tagged GUS variant was increased by up to approximately 500-fold by the addition of an equimolar concentration of a monoclonal antibody. This molecular switch is modular in design, so it can easily be re-engineered for the detection of other peptide-specific antibodies. Such antibody-activated reporters could someday enable point-of-care serological assays for the rapid detection of infectious diseases.

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Protein Structure, QuaternaryAntibodiesEnzyme ActivationGlucuronidaseHumansModels, MolecularMutagenesisProtein EngineeringAntibodiesGlucuronidase

Identifiers

PMID17467736
PMCPMC1995550

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