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The covalent SNAP tag for protein display quantification and low-pH protein engineering.


ABSTRACT: Yeast display has become an important tool for modern biotechnology with many advantages for eukaryotic protein engineering. Antibody-based peptide interactions are often used to quantify yeast surface expression (e.g., by fusing a target protein to a FLAG, Myc, polyhistidine, or other peptide tag). However, antibody-antigen interactions require high stability for accurate quantification, and conventional tag systems based on such interactions may not be compatible with a low pH environment. In this study, a SNAP tag was introduced to a yeast display platform to circumvent disadvantages of conventional antibody display tags at low pH. SNAP forms a covalent bond with its small-molecule substrate, enabling precise and pH-independent protein display tagging. We compared the SNAP tag to conventional antibody-based peptide fusion and to direct fluorescent domain fusion using antibody fragment crystallizable (Fc) gene libraries as a case study in low pH protein engineering. Our results demonstrated that covalent SNAP tags can effectively quantify protein-surface expression at low pH, enabling the enrichment of Fc variants with increased affinity at pH 6.0 to the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn). Incorporation of a covalent SNAP tag thus overcomes disadvantages of conventional antibody-based expression tags and enables protein-engineering applications outside of physiological pH.

SUBMITTER: Jin W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7434562 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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