Two-distinct polymer ubiquitin conjugates by photochemical grafting-from

Protein-polymer bioconjugates present a way to make enzymes more efficient and robust for industrial and medicinal applications. While much work has focused on mono-functional conjugates, i.e. conjugates with one type of polymer attached such as poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), there is a practical interest in gaining additional functionality by synthesizing well-defined bifunctional conjugates in a hetero-arm star copolymer architecture with protein as the core. Using ubiquitin as a model protein, a synthetic scheme was developed to attach two different polymers (OEOMA and DMAm) directly to the protein surface, using orthogonal conjugation chemistries and grafting-from by photochemical living radical polymerization techniques. The additional complexity arising from attempts to selectively modify multiple sites led to decreased polymerization performance and indicates that ICAR-ATRP and RAFT are not well-suited to bifunctional bioconjugates applications. Nonetheless, the polymerization conditions preserve the native fold of the ubiquitin and enable production of a hetero-arm star protein-polymer bioconjugate.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:222

Enthalten in:

Macromolecular chemistry and physics - 222(2021), 14 vom: 01. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Burridge, Kevin M [VerfasserIn]
Parnell, Ryan F [VerfasserIn]
Kearns, Madison M [VerfasserIn]
Page, Richard C [VerfasserIn]
Konkolewicz, Dominik [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ATRP
Grafting from
Journal Article
Protein-polymer bioconjugates
RAFT

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Date Revised 07.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/macp.202100091

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329646389