title: Screening and characterization of affinity peptide tags specific to polystyrene supports for the orientated immobilization of proteins.
abstract: Dodecapeptides that exhibit a high affinity specific to a polystyrene surface (PS-tags) were screened using an Escherichia coli random peptide display library system, and the compounds were used as a peptide tag for the site-specific immobilization of proteins. The various PS-tags obtained after 10 rounds of biopanning selection were mainly composed of basic and aliphatic amino acid residues, most of which were arranged in close proximity to one another. Mutant-type glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) fused with the selected PS-tags, PS19 (RAFIASRRIKRP) and PS23 (AGLRLKKAAIHR) at their C-terminus, GST-PS19 and GST-PS23, when adsorbed on the PS latex beads had a higher affinity than the wild-type GST, and the specific remaining activity of the immobilized mutant-type GSTs was approximately 10 times higher than that of the wild-type GST. The signal intensity detected for GST-PS19 and GST-PS23 adsorbed on hydrophilic and hydrophobic PS surfaces using an anti-peptide antibody specific for the N-terminus peptide of GST was much higher than that for the wild-type GST. These findings indicate that the mutant-type GSTs fused with the selected peptide tags, PS19 and PS23, could be site-specifically immobilized on the surface of polystyrene with their N-terminal regions directed toward the solution. Thus, the selected peptide tags would be useful for protein immobilization in the construction of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) systems and protein-based biochips.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Okayama University, 700-8530, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kumada
authors.forename: Yasuhide
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tokunaga
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Imanaka
authors.forename: Koreyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Imamura
authors.forename: Takaharu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakiyama
authors.forename: Shigeo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Katoh
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011137:Polystyrenes / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D011137:Polystyrenes; D005982:Glutathione Transferase