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Target validation using protein aptamers enables the characterization of a specific function of a target protein in an environment that resembles native conditions as closely as possible A major obstacle to the use of this technology has been the generation of bioactive aptamers, which is dependent on the choice of scaffold Constraining binding peptides within a particular scaffold does not necessarily result in binding aptamers, as suboptimal presentation of peptides can occur It is therefore understandable that different peptides might require different scaffolds for optimal presentation In this article, we describe a novel scaffold protein that bypasses the conventional requirement for scaffolds to have known rigid structures and yet successfully presents several peptides that need to adopt a wide range of conformations for binding to their target protein Using an unstructured protein, 4EBP1, as scaffold, we successfully construct binding aptamers to three different target proteins Mdm2, proliferating cell nuclear antigen, and cyclin A The Mdm2-binding aptamer constructed using 4EBP1 as scaffold demonstrates better stability and bioactivity compared to that constructed using thioredoxin as scaffold This new scaffold protein, which
- 出版日期2010-12-17
