A DNA Spiegelmer to staphylococcal enterotoxin B

Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Jun 15;31(12):3027-32. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkg413.

Abstract

Bacterial staphylococcal enterotoxin B is involved in several severe disease patterns and it was therefore used as a target for the generation of biologically stable mirror-image oligonucleotide ligands, so called Spiegelmers. The toxin is a 28 kDa protein consisting of 239 amino acids. Since the full-length protein is not accessible to chemical peptide synthesis, a stable domain of 25 amino acids was identified as a suitable selection target. DNA in vitro selection experiments were carried out against the equivalent mirror-image D-peptide domain resulting in high affinity D-DNA aptamers. As expected, the corresponding enantiomeric L-DNA Spiegelmer showed comparable binding characteristics to the L-peptide domain. Moreover, the Spiegelmer bound the whole protein target with only slightly reduced affinity. Dissociation constants of both peptide-oligonucleotide complexes were measured in the range of 200 nM, whereas the Spiegelmer binding to the full-length protein was determined at approximately 420 nM. These data demonstrate the possibility to identify Spiegelmers against large protein targets by a domain approach.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Base Sequence
  • DNA / chemistry
  • DNA / metabolism
  • Enterotoxins / chemistry*
  • Enterotoxins / metabolism*
  • Ligands
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Nucleic Acid Conformation
  • Oligodeoxyribonucleotides / chemistry
  • Oligodeoxyribonucleotides / metabolism*
  • Peptides / metabolism
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary

Substances

  • Enterotoxins
  • Ligands
  • Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
  • Peptides
  • enterotoxin B, staphylococcal
  • DNA