Characterization of various Avidin variants

Streptavidin and its variants were produced by cytoplasmic expression in E. coli in inclusion bodies. After stabilization and refolding of the functional tetrameric and monomeric variants, purification was carried out by ammonium sulfate precipitation, Ion Exchange Chromatography and size exclusion chromatography. Samples of each required step were analysed by SDS-PAGE. Finally each of the successfully purified variants were characterized. Mass spectrometry was used to confirm the expected size, circular dichroism spectroscopy (cd) to determine folding states, fluorescence titration and surface plasmon resonance for determining binding affinities.

Results can be seen in Table 1.

Mass spectroscopy

To determine if the mass of each measured protein conforms to our expectations based on the sequence, mass spectra were recorded and can be seen in the following figures.

Circular dichroism spectroscopy

De- and renaturation curves as well as UV-CD-spectra were measured and can be seen in figure 1 and 2. All cd spectra were evaluated by Spectra Manager Software and results can be seen in figure 3. Also the temperature where 50 % of the protein were unfolded were calculated. Therefore the data for each protein were entered into a GraphPad Prism sheet and calculated respectively. Results can be seen in table 1.

Figure 1: UV-CD-spectra for each measured protein.

Figure 2: Denaturation curves for each measured protein.

Figure 3: Distribution of secondary structure elements for each protein.

Fluorescence spectroscopy

Surface plasmon resonance

Unfortunately every single Avidin variant bound on the surface of the used chip. Therefore no evaluable results were gathered.

**Table 1:** Properties of various Avidin variants.
protein	amino acids (without Met)	molecular weight monomer [Da]	molecular weight tetramer [Da]	theoretical isoelectric proint (pI)	extinction coefficient (monomer, ε₂₈₀) [M^-1 cm^-1]
Streptavidin wt	126	13200.34	52801.36	6.09	41940
Traptavidin	126	13129.22	52516.88	5.14	41940
Streptactin	126	13241.44	52516.88	8.32	41940
enhanced monomeric Avidin	138	15220.30	/	5.91	35075

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↑ Schmidt, T. G., & Skerra, A. (2007). The Strep-tag system for one-step purification and high-affinity detection or capturing of proteins. Nature protocols, 2(6), 1528-1535.

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