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Quantitative Affinity Determination by Fluorescence Anisotropy Measurements of Individual Nanoliter Droplets

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Authors

Gielen, F 
Butz, M 
Rees, EJ 
Erdelyi, M 
Moschetti, T 

Abstract

Fluorescence anisotropy measurements of reagents compartmentalized into individual nanoliter droplets are shown to yield high-resolution binding curves from which precise dissociation constants (Kd) for protein-peptide interactions can be inferred. With the current platform, four titrations can be obtained per minute (based on ∼100 data points each), with stoichiometries spanning more than 2 orders of magnitude and requiring only tens of microliters of reagents. In addition to affinity measurements with purified components, Kd values for unpurified proteins in crude cell lysates can be obtained without prior knowledge of the concentration of the expressed protein, so that protein purification can be avoided. Finally, we show how a competition assay can be set up to perform focused library screens, so that compound labeling is not required anymore. These data demonstrate the utility of droplet compartments for the quantitative characterization of biomolecular interactions and establish fluorescence anisotropy imaging as a quantitative technique in a miniaturized droplet format, which is shown to be as reliable as its macroscopic test tube equivalent.

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Keywords

0299 Other Physical Sciences, Bioengineering

Journal Title

Analytical Chemistry

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Journal ISSN

0003-2700
1520-6882

Volume Title

89

Publisher

American Chemical Society
Sponsorship
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/K013629/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H018301/1)
Medical Research Council (MR/K02292X/1)
This research was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council (MRC), and Alzheimer Research U.K. M.B. was supported by a fellowship from the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds. F.H. is an ERC Investigator.