Biophysical characterization of VEGF-aHt DNA aptamer interactions

Indhu Kanakaraj; Wen Hsiang Chen; Mohan Poongavanam; Sagar Dhamane; Loren J. Stagg; John E. Ladbury; Katerina Kourentzi; Ulrich Strych; Richard C. Willson

doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2013.02.016

Biophysical characterization of VEGF-aHt DNA aptamer interactions

Indhu Kanakaraj, Wen Hsiang Chen, Mohan Poongavanam, Sagar Dhamane, Loren J. Stagg, John E. Ladbury, Katerina Kourentzi, Ulrich Strych, Richard C. Willson

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Abstract

The binding of the well-studied DNA aptamer aHt (5'-ATACCAGTCTATTCAATTGGGCCCGTCCGTAT GGTGGGTGTGCTGGCCAG-3'), which has been demonstrated to recognize human vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF₁₆₅) to recombinant VEGF was characterized using fluorescence anisotropy, isothermal titration calorimetry and analytical ultracentrifugation. The negatively-charged DNA aptamer is selective for VEGF and does not recognize positively-charged hen egg lysozyme, or bovine serum albumin. In contrast to the VEGF association of the previously-described aV DNA aptamer, where the binding is enthalpically driven and sequence-specific, the binding of the aHt aptamer to VEGF is entropically-driven and not abolished by scrambling of the sequence.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	69-75
Number of pages	7
Journal	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Volume	57
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2013.02.016
State	Published - Jun 2013

Keywords

Aptamer
Fluorescence anisotropy
Isothermal titration calorimetry
Vascular endothelial growth factor

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Structural Biology
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Economics and Econometrics
General Energy

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