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ArticleScientific reports2021

Nucleotide-decorated AuNPs as probes for nucleotide-binding proteins.

Olga Perzanowska, Maciej Majewski, Malwina Strenkowska, Paulina Głowala, Mariusz Czarnocki-Cieciura, Maciej Mazur, Joanna Kowalska, Jacek Jemielity

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Olga PerzanowskaDivision of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Ludwika Pasteura 5, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.
Maciej MajewskiDivision of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Ludwika Pasteura 5, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.
Malwina StrenkowskaDivision of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Ludwika Pasteura 5, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.
Paulina GłowalaFaculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Ludwika Pasteura 1, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.
Mariusz Czarnocki-CieciuraLaboratory of Protein Structure, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Księcia Trojdena 4, 02-109, Warsaw, Poland.
Maciej MazurFaculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Ludwika Pasteura 1, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.
Joanna KowalskaDivision of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Ludwika Pasteura 5, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland. jkowalska@fuw.edu.pl.
Jacek JemielityCentre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Stefana Banacha 2c, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland. j.jemielity@cent.uw.edu.pl.
University of Warsaw · PLInternational Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology · PL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) decorated with biologically relevant molecules have variety of applications in optical sensing of bioanalytes. Coating AuNPs with small nucleotides produces particles with high stability in water, but functionality-compatible strategies are needed to uncover the full potential of this type of conjugates. Here, we demonstrate that lipoic acid-modified dinucleotides can be used to modify AuNPs surfaces in a controllable manner to produce conjugates that are stable in aqueous buffers and biological mixtures and capable of interacting with nucleotide-binding proteins. Using this strategy we obtained AuNPs decorated with 7-methylguanosine mRNA 5' cap analogs and showed that they bind cap-specific protein, eIF4E. AuNPs decorated with non-functional dinucleotides also interacted with eIF4E, albeit with lower affinity, suggesting that eIF4E binding to cap-decorated AuNPs is partially mediated by unspecific ionic interactions. This issue was overcome by applying lipoic-acid-Tris conjugate as a charge-neutral diluting molecule. Tris-Lipo-diluted cap-AuNPs conjugates interacted with eIF4E in fully specific manner, enabling design of functional tools. To demonstrate the potential of these conjugates in protein sensing, we designed a two-component eIF4E sensing system consisting of cap-AuNP and 4E-BP1-AuNP conjugates, wherein 4E-BP1 is a short peptide derived from 4E-BP protein that specifically binds eIF4E at a site different to that of the 5' cap. This system facilitated controlled aggregation, in which eIF4E plays the role of the agent that crosslinks two types of AuNP, thereby inducing a naked-eye visible absorbance redshift. The reported AuNPs-nucleotide conjugation method based on lipoic acid affinity for gold, can be harnessed to obtain other types of nucleotide-functionalized AuNPs, thereby paving the way to studying other nucleotide-binding proteins.

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Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingBiosensing TechniquesCarrier ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsGoldHumansMetal NanoparticlesNucleotidesPeptide FragmentsProtein BindingProtein BiosynthesisRNA CapsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCarrier ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsEIF4EBP1 protein, humanGoldNucleotidesPeptide FragmentsRNA Caps

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PMID34344911
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