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Site-Specific Bioconjugation through Enzyme-Catalyzed Tyrosine-Cysteine Bond Formation.

ABSTRACT: The synthesis of protein-protein and protein-peptide conjugates is an important capability for producing vaccines, immunotherapeutics, and targeted delivery agents. Herein we show that the enzyme tyrosinase is capable of oxidizing exposed tyrosine residues into o-quinones that react rapidly with cysteine residues on target proteins. This coupling reaction occurs under mild aerobic conditions and has the rare ability to join full-size proteins in under 2 h. The utility of the approach is demonstrated for the attachment of cationic peptides to enhance the cellular delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 20-fold and for the coupling of reporter proteins to a cancer-targeting antibody fragment without loss of its cell-specific binding ability. The broad applicability of this technique provides a new building block approach for the synthesis of protein chimeras.

SUBMITTER: Lobba MJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7517114 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Site-Specific Bioconjugation through Enzyme-Catalyzed Tyrosine-Cysteine Bond Formation.

Lobba Marco J MJ Fellmann Christof C Marmelstein Alan M AM Maza Johnathan C JC Kissman Elijah N EN Robinson Stephanie A SA Staahl Brett T BT Urnes Cole C Lew Rachel J RJ Mogilevsky Casey S CS Doudna Jennifer A JA Francis Matthew B MB

ACS central science 20200821 9

The synthesis of protein-protein and protein-peptide conjugates is an important capability for producing vaccines, immunotherapeutics, and targeted delivery agents. Herein we show that the enzyme tyrosinase is capable of oxidizing exposed tyrosine residues into <i>o</i>-quinones that react rapidly with cysteine residues on target proteins. This coupling reaction occurs under mild aerobic conditions and has the rare ability to join full-size proteins in under 2 h. The utility of the approach is d ...[more]

PMID: 32999931

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Site-Specific Bioconjugation through Enzyme-Catalyzed Tyrosine-Cysteine Bond Formation.

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Site-Specific Bioconjugation through Enzyme-Catalyzed Tyrosine-Cysteine Bond Formation.

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