CRM-Azide

Fina Biosolutions offers another Ready-to-ConjugateTMcarrier protein, CRM197-Azide to facilitate conjugation by click chemistry. CRM197-Azide, prepared from Finabio’s CRM197 (EcoCRM®), is derivatized with approximately 15 azide groups ready for conjugation to alkyne, DBCO, or BCN-tagged ligands including carbohydrates, peptides, proteins, and other molecules of interest. Ready-to-ConjugateTM CRM197-Azide has been purified to remove any trace of azide labeling reagent. The product is provided at 5 mg/ml in PBS pH 6.8 containing 5% sucrose at -80°C, and conjugation can be performed without further buffer exchange. As an example of the utility of CRM197-Azide, copper-free click chemistry was reacted DBCO-activated Alexa Fluor 488 and 555 at 2-10x molar ratios in PBS, pH 7.4 (Figure 1A) . Following purification, the molar ratio of Dye/CRM197in the conjugates was determined (Figure 1B) . The figure clearly shows that DBCO-dyes coupled with CRM197-azide with good yield, about 65% for DBCO-AF488 and about 40% for DBCO-AF555. The number of dyes conjugated to CRM197increased linearly with the number of DBCO-dyes used in the conjugation, indicating the azide groups on CRM197were not saturated. Figure 1. DBCO-AF488 and DBCO-AF555 were conjugated to CRM197-azide at molar ratio of Dye/CRM197of 2-10x molar ratios. 25 μl of DBCO-dye/DMSO solutions of desired concentrations to a mixture of 200 μl (1 mg) of CRM197-azide and 175 μl of PBS pH 7.2. The reactions were mixed at 20°C for 2 – 4 hours, then incubated at 37°C overnight and purified by dialysis. The Dye/ CRM ratios were calculated from the absorbances. The ligand density in the conjugates can be controlled by adjusting the DBCO-ligand/CRM197ratios in the conjugation reaction. It is possible to attach as high as 15 ligand molecules to CRM197by performing conjugation with over-saturating DBCO-ligands, depending on the nature of ligands and the coupling conditions. It is recommended that the optimal ligand density determined first at a small scale for the intended application. Ready-to-ConjugateTMproteins to simplify synthesis CRM197-maleimide, TTHc-maleimide CRM197-bromoacetate, TTHc-bromoacetate Anti-CRM antibodies Conjugation services