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Antibody Activation using DNA‐Based Logic Gates
Author(s) -
Janssen Brian M. G.,
van Rosmalen Martijn,
van Beek Lotte,
Merkx Maarten
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201410779
Subject(s) - oligonucleotide , dna , aptamer , synthetic biology , computational biology , chemistry , logic gate , nanotechnology , biophysics , biology , computer science , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , materials science , algorithm
Abstract Oligonucleotide‐based molecular circuits offer the exciting possibility to introduce autonomous signal processing in biomedicine, synthetic biology, and molecular diagnostics. Here we introduce bivalent peptide–DNA conjugates as generic, noncovalent, and easily applicable molecular locks that allow the control of antibody activity using toehold‐mediated strand displacement reactions. Employing yeast as a cellular model system, reversible control of antibody targeting is demonstrated with low n M concentrations of peptide–DNA locks and oligonucleotide displacer strands. Introduction of two different toehold strands on the peptide–DNA lock allowed signal integration of two different inputs, yielding logic OR‐ and AND‐gates. The range of molecular inputs could be further extended to protein‐based triggers by using protein‐binding aptamers.