Using Avi-tag Biotinylated Proteins to Determine Protein Interaction Kinetics and Affinity with Surface Plasmon Resonance
Introduction
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is a powerful, accurate, and direct way to measure protein interactions in real-time without the need for antibodies or detection reagents. Typically, a protein is covalently immobilized or non-covalently captured on a sensor chip, then an analyte is passed over the surface at varying concentrations and allowed to associate with the protein ligand. These binding events are detected by measuring changes in the refractive index caused by an increase of mass near the sensor chip surface. Biacore (GE Healthcare) is the most widely used SPR system and is currently used for all SPR experiments at R&D Systems. In a typical Biacore experiment, the covalently immobilized protein is often coupled to the sensor chip in a random orientation by amine or thiol coupling. This works well in many cases, however these random thiol or amine immobilization methods can produce unsatisfactory results, especially with small proteins or proteins with reactive groups in the binding interface resulting in valuable time spent troubleshooting. In this study, we employ R&D Systems™ Avi-tag Biotinylated Proteins along with streptavidin Series S chips to specifically and uniformly capture proteins in a Biacore experiment, as an alternative to chemical or amine coupling.
Materials and Methods
Binding measurements were performed by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) on a Biacore T200 instrument (GE Healthcare). R&D Systems Avi-tag biotinylated proteins, either Recombinant Human CD155/PVR Fc Chimera Avi-tag protein (Catalog # AVI9174) or Recombinant Human PD-L1/B7-H1 His-tag Avi-tag protein (Catalog # AVI9049) were captured at a low coupling density on Streptavidin Series S sensor chip SA (GE Healthcare), and increasing concentrations of the corresponding analytes, Recombinant Human TIGIT-Fc protein (Catalog # 9464-TG) or Recombinant Human PD-1 His-tag protein (Catalog # 8986-PD), respectively, were passed over both active and reference flow cells. Double-referenced sensorgrams were analyzed using the Biacore evaluation software to determine the binding kinetics and affinity.
Determining the Binding Kinetics and Interaction Affinity of the Avi-tag Biotinylated Human PD-L1 Protein with Recombinant Human PD-1
We have chosen to highlight the use of our Avi-tag proteins in SPR experimentation by using the following Avi-tag products: Recombinant Human PD-L1/B7-H1 His-tag Avi-tag Protein (Catalog # AVI9049) and Recombinant Human CD155/PVR Fc Chimera Avi-tag Protein (Catalog # AVI9174). The binding interaction between Recombinant Human PD-L1/ B7-H1 His-tag Avi-tag Protein and Recombinant PD-1 His-tag is shown in FIGURE 1. We determined the interaction affinity using binding kinetics (B) as well as steady state affinity (C). In this experiment, Recombinant Human PD-L1/B7-H1 His-tag Avi-tag biotinylated protein was captured at a low coupling density to the active flow cell via the Avi-tag biotin. Then, Recombinant PD-1 His-tag protein at a concentration range between 3.2 nM and 13.2 uM was passed over both active and uncoupled reference flow cells at each concentration. The association phase at each concentration was 60 seconds followed by a 40 second dissociation. Double-referenced sensorgrams of captured Recombinant Human PD-L1/B7-H1 His-tag Avi-tag Protein binding to Recombinant PD-1 His-tag and the corresponding overlaid kinetic fits are shown in FIGURE 1B. Kinetic sensorgrams were fit to a 1:1 binding model and the interaction affinity was calculated at KD = 1.122 µM. The steady state affinity calculation is in line with the kinetic data producing an affinity of KD = 1.528 uM shown in FIGURE 1C.
FIGURE 1. Affinity measurements and binding kinetics of the PD-1:PD-L1 interaction by SPR. (A) Schematic cartoon of the SPR experiment. Ribbon structure from www.rcsb.org/structure/3BIK. (B) Sensorgram data of captured Recombinant Human PD-L1/B7-H1 His-tag Avi-tag binding to Recombinant Human PD-1 His-tag and the corresponding overlaid kinetic fits with the residual plot shown below.. The concentration of PD-1 His-tag ranged from 3.2 nM to 13.2 uM. (C) The corresponding steady state affinity fit.
Determining the Binding Kinetics and Interaction Affinity of the Avi-tag Biotinylated Human CD155 Protein with Recombinant Human TIGIT
Next, we analyzed the CD155/PVR:TIGIT binding interaction using this same method. The results of this SPR experiment also performed on the Biacore T200 are shown in FIGURE 2. Here, we captured Recombinant Human CD155/PVR Fc Chimera Avi-tag at a low coupling density to the active flow cell via the biotin moiety residing within the Avi-tag. Recombinant Human TIGIT-Fc was passed over both active and uncoupled reference flow cells in duplicate at different concentrations ranging from 0.2 nM to 400 nM. The association phase at each concentration was 180 seconds followed by a 120 second dissociation. Double-referenced sensorgrams were fit to a 1:1 binding model to determine the binding kinetics and affinity, and the calculated interaction affinity was KD = 25.35 nM shown in FIGURE 2B. Steady state affinity is plotted in FIGURE 2C and the determined affinity of KD = 36.14 nM falls in line with the kinetic data. These affinity results are consistent with the TIGIT Fc Protein interacting with CD155/PVR Fc chimera (non-biotinylated) covalently immobilized using amine chemistry (data not shown).
FIGURE 2. Affinity measurements and binding kinetics of the CD155/PVR:TIGIT interaction by SPR. (A) Schematic cartoon of the SPR experiment. Ribbon structure from rcsb.org/structure/3UDW. (B) Sensorgram data of captured Recombinant Human CD155/PVR Fc Avi-tag binding to Recombinant Human TIGIT His-tag and the corresponding overlaid kinetic fits with the residual plot shown below. The concentration of TIGIT His-tag ranged from 0.2 nM to 400 nM. (C) The corresponding steady state affinity fit.
Conclusions
In this study we demonstrate how R&D Systems Avi-tag Biotinylated Proteins can be used in conjunction with Streptavidin Series S Sensor Chips to generate useful kinetic and affinity measurements by surface plasmon resonance using Biacore.
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