Simple and efficient method to purify DNA-protein conjugates and its sensing applications

Anal Chem. 2014 Apr 15;86(8):3869-75. doi: 10.1021/ac4040554. Epub 2014 Mar 28.

Abstract

DNA-protein conjugates are very useful in analytical chemistry for target recognition and signal amplification. While a number of methods for conjugating DNA with proteins are known, methods for purification of DNA-protein conjugates from reaction mixture containing unreacted proteins are much less investigated. In this work, a simple and efficient approach to purify DNA-invertase conjugates from reaction mixture via a biotin displacement strategy to release desthiobiotinylated DNA-invertase conjugates from streptavidin-coated magnetic beads was developed. The conjugates purified by this approach were utilized for quantitative detection of cocaine and DNA using a personal glucose meter through structure-switching DNA aptamer sensors and competitive DNA hybridization assays, respectively. In both cases, the purified DNA-invertase conjugates showed better performance compared to the same assays using unpurified conjugates. The approach demonstrated here can be further expanded to other DNA and proteins to generate purified DNA-protein conjugates for analytical and other applications.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Aptamers, Nucleotide / analysis
  • Biotin / chemistry
  • Biotinylation
  • Cocaine / analysis
  • DNA / isolation & purification*
  • Glucose / analysis
  • Proteins / isolation & purification*
  • Streptavidin / chemistry
  • beta-Fructofuranosidase / chemistry

Substances

  • Aptamers, Nucleotide
  • Proteins
  • Biotin
  • DNA
  • Streptavidin
  • beta-Fructofuranosidase
  • Cocaine
  • Glucose