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Protein interference applications in cellular and developmental biology using DARPins that recognize GFP and mCherry
Michael Brauchle, Simon Hansen, Emmanuel Caussinus, Anna Lenard, Amanda Ochoa-Espinosa, Oliver Scholz, Simon G. Sprecher, Andreas Plückthun, Markus Affolter
Biology Open 2014 3: 1252-1261; doi: 10.1242/bio.201410041
Michael Brauchle
1Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50/70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
2Department of Zoology, University of Fribourg, Chemi du Musée 10, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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Simon Hansen
3Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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Emmanuel Caussinus
1Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50/70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Anna Lenard
1Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50/70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Amanda Ochoa-Espinosa
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Oliver Scholz
3Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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Simon G. Sprecher
2Department of Zoology, University of Fribourg, Chemi du Musée 10, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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Andreas Plückthun
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Markus Affolter
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    Fig. 1. Specificity, oligomeric state and affinity of anti-GFP and anti-mCherry DARPins.

    (A) ELISA experiments show a high specificity of selected DARPins towards their cognate target and closely related proteins. Off7 is a control DARPin binding to maltose binding protein (MBP), E 3_5 is an unselected DARPin. All bars represent mean values of duplicates, error bars represent standard deviations. (B) Analysis of the oligomeric state by SEC shows that most DARPins are predominantly monomeric. Due to low extinction coefficients at 280 nm for the chromatograms of 2m22 and 2m74 the absorption at 230 nm is shown. Arrows indicate the elution volumes of the molecular weight standard with the respective MWs. (C) Example of FA assays of different DARPins binding to sfGFP. The solid line indicates a fit to a 1:1 binding model. Extracted KDs for all DARPins can be found in Table 1. (D) Example of a kinetic titration SPR experiment of 3G124 binding to GFP. The concentrations of the five DARPin injections are indicated in the graph. Fit to a global 1:1 kinetic titration binding model is indicated in red. Extracted association and dissociation rates and KDs for several DARPins are summarized in Table 1; additional sensograms are shown in supplementary material Fig. S4.

  • Table 1. Affinities and oligomeric states of GFP and mCherry-binding DARPins
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    Fig. 2. Binding of anti-GFP-DARPin-Ruby2 fusions to GFP in HeLa cells.

    Shown are HeLa cells transiently overexpressing a DARPin-mRuby2 fusion protein (A–G) (H is an mRuby2-nanobody fusion) together with a GFP version tethered to the plasma membrane (GFP-CVIM, A′–H′). Overlap of fluorescent signal indicates binding of the respective anti-GFP-DARPin-mRuby2 fusion to GFP-CVIM, indicated by the yellow fluorescent signal at the plasma membrane. (A–A″) As expected, the anti-mCherry DARPin 2m22-mRuby2 fusion protein, which does not recognize GFP, is not recruited to the plasma membrane. (B–B″) 3G86.32-mRuby2, (C–C″) 3G168-mRuby2, (D–D″) 3G124-mRuby2 as well as (E–E″) 3G86.1-mRuby2 fusion proteins localize to the plasma membrane where they interact with GFP-CVIM. On the other hand, low affinity (F–F″) 3G61-mRuby2 and (G–G″) 3G146-mRuby2 fusion proteins localize to the cytoplasm and nucleus, indicating that they cannot interact sufficiently with GFP-CVIM anchored in the plasma membrane. (H–H″) Positive control mRuby2-VHH-GFP4 fusion protein localizes to the plasma membrane. Unprimed letters, mRuby2 channel; primed letters, GFP channel; double primed letters, overlay. Scale bars are 20 µm.

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    Fig. 3. Binding of anti-mCherry-Darpin-GFP fusions to mCherry in HeLa cells.

    Shown are HeLa cells transiently overexpressing GFP (A) or anti-mCherry-GFP fusion proteins (B–E) together with a mCherry version tethered to the plasma membrane (mCherry-CVIM, A′–E′). Overlap of fluorescent signal indicates binding of the respective anti-mCherry-DARPin-GFP fusion to mCherry-CVIM, indicated by the yellow fluorescent signal at the plasma membrane. (A–A″) As expected, the untethered GFP control does not change its subcellular localization upon co-expression with mCherry-CVIM and remains cytoplasmic and nuclear. (B–B″) 2m22-GFP re-localizes to the plasma membrane where it binds to mCherry-CVIM. (C–C″) The 3m160-GFP fusion protein results in some fluorescent signal at the plasma membrane indicating the weaker affinity to mCherry-CVIM. (D–D″) 2m151-GFP and (E–E″) 2m74-GFP fusion proteins are not significantly recruited to the plasma because of their only micromolar affinity. Unprimed letters, GFP channel; primed letters, mCherry channel; double primed letters, overlay. Scale bars are 20 µm.

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    Fig. 4. Expression of a Slmb-anti-GFP-DARPin fusion in Drosophila embryos degrades eYFP.

    (A) Shown is an embryo with the following genotype: H2A-eYFP; en-GAL4, UAS-mCherryNLS; UAS-Slmb-3G86.32. Nuclei that express the Slmb-anti-GFP-DARPin in the engrailed pattern are also expressing unfused mCherry. It can be seen that red cells lost the eYFP signal. (B–B″) Close-up of another embryo showing the channel-specific signal of eYFP (B), mCherry (B′) and the overlay (B″). Note again that cells expressing mCherry have strongly reduced H2A-eYFP signal, indicating efficient eYFP degradation due to the expression of a Slmb-anti-GFP-Darpin. Scale bars are 20 µm.

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    Fig. 5. Tissue specific expression of a Slmb-anti-GFP-DARPin fusion in Drosophila phenocopies a non-muscle myosin II mutant phenotype.

    (A) Shown is an embryo with the following genotype: sqhAX3; sqhSqh::GFP. The arrow points to the normal dorsal closure. (B) Shown is an embryo with the following genotype: sqhAX3/Y; sqhSqh::GFP/Gal4; NSlmb-3G86.32/+. The dotted line outlines the “dorsal open” phenotype exposing the amnioserosa. Scale bars are 20 µm.

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    Fig. 6. anti-GFP-DARPin fusion proteins can relocalize fluorescent fusion proteins in D. rerio embryos.

    (A,B) 3G86.2-mRuby2 binds GFP in living zebrafish embryos. (A) Control embryo showing the localization of 3G86.32-mRuby2 in two adjacent skin cells. (B–B″) In a zebrafish embryo co-expressing membrane-bound GFP-CVIM (B), 3G86.32-mRuby2 now localizes to the plasma membrane (B′) and shows a virtually complete co-localization with GFP-CVIM (B″). (C,D) membrane-anchored 3G86.32-mRuby2-CVIM recruits GFP-rab5c in living zebrafish embryos. (C) Control embryo showing the localization of GFP-rab5c in two adjacent skin cells. (D–D″) In a zebrafish embryo co-expressing membrane-bound 3G86.32-mRuby2-CVIM (D′), GFP-Rab5C also localizes to the plasma membrane (D) and shows a virtually complete co-localization with 3G86.32-mRuby2-CVIM (D″). Scale bars are 20 µm.

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Michael Brauchle, Simon Hansen, Emmanuel Caussinus, Anna Lenard, Amanda Ochoa-Espinosa, Oliver Scholz, Simon G. Sprecher, Andreas Plückthun, Markus Affolter
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