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An Efficient Method for Vault Nanoparticle Conjugation with Finely Adjustable Amounts of Antibodies and Small Molecules
العنوان: | An Efficient Method for Vault Nanoparticle Conjugation with Finely Adjustable Amounts of Antibodies and Small Molecules |
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المؤلفون: | Giulia Tomaino, Camilla Pantaleoni, Annalisa D’Urzo, Carlo Santambrogio, Filippo Testa, Matilde Ciprandi, Davide Cotugno, Gianni Frascotti, Marco Vanoni, Paolo Tortora |
المصدر: | International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 25, Iss 12, p 6629 (2024) |
بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2024. |
سنة النشر: | 2024 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Biology (General) LCC:Chemistry |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | vault nanoparticle, major vault protein, Komagataella phaffii expression system, antibody-mediated targeting, Fc antibody portion, surface plasmon resonance, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Chemistry, QD1-999 |
الوصف: | Vaults are eukaryotic ribonucleoproteins consisting of 78 copies of the major vault protein (MVP), which assemble into a nanoparticle with an about 60 nm volume-based size, enclosing other proteins and RNAs. Regardless of their physiological role(s), vaults represent ideal, natural hollow nanoparticles, which are produced by the assembly of the sole MVP. Here, we have expressed in Komagataella phaffi and purified an MVP variant carrying a C-terminal Z peptide (vault-Z), which can tightly bind an antibody’s Fc portion, in view of targeted delivery. Via surface plasmon resonance analysis, we could determine a 2.5 nM affinity to the monoclonal antibody Trastuzumab (Tz)/vault-Z 1:1 interaction. Then, we characterized the in-solution interaction via co-incubation, ultracentrifugation, and analysis of the pelleted proteins. This showed virtually irreversible binding up to an at least 10:1 Tz/vault-Z ratio. As a proof of concept, we labeled the Fc portion of Tz with a fluorophore and conjugated it with the nanoparticle, along with either Tz or Cetuximab, another monoclonal antibody. Thus, we could demonstrate antibody-dependent, selective uptake by the SKBR3 and MDA-MB 231 breast cancer cell lines. These investigations provide a novel, flexible technological platform that significantly extends vault-Z’s applications, in that it can be stably conjugated with finely adjusted amounts of antibodies as well as of other molecules, such as fluorophores, cell-targeting peptides, or drugs, using the Fc portion as a scaffold. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1422-0067 1661-6596 |
Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/12/6629; https://doaj.org/toc/1661-6596; https://doaj.org/toc/1422-0067 |
DOI: | 10.3390/ijms25126629 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/dd830891f6234f00a1e9aab9e41d6ef3 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.830891f6234f00a1e9aab9e41d6ef3 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 14220067 16616596 |
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DOI: | 10.3390/ijms25126629 |