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Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Identification of a Tetanus Toxin Specific Epitope in Single Amino Acid Resolution(2017-10-01); ; ; ; Vaccinations are among the most potent tools to fight infectious diseases. However, cross-reactions are an ongoing problem and there is an urgent need to fully understand the mechanisms of the immune response. For the development of a methodological workflow, the linear epitopes in the immune response to the tetanus toxin is investigated in sera of 19 vaccinated Europeans applying epitope mapping with peptide arrays. The most prominent epitope, appearing in nine different sera (923IHLVNNESSEVIVHK937), is investigated in a substitution analysis to identify the amino acids that are crucial for the binding of the corresponding antibody species − the antibody fingerprint. The antibody fingerprints of different individuals are compared and found to be strongly conserved (929ExxEVIVxK937), which is astonishing considering the randomness of their development. Additionally, the corresponding antibody species is isolated from one serum with batch chromatography using the amino acid sequence of the identified epitope and the tetanus specificity of the isolated antibody is verified by ELISA. Studying antibody fingerprints with peptide arrays should be transferable to any kind of humoral immune response toward protein antigens. Furthermore, antibody fingerprints have shown to be highly disease-specific and, therefore, can be employed as reliable biomarkers enabling the study of cross-reacting antigens.Publicationtype: Journal Article6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , High-flexibility combinatorial peptide synthesis with laser-based transfer of monomers in solid matrix material(2016-06-14); ; ; ; Schlageter, MartinLaser writing is used to structure surfaces in many different ways in materials and life sciences. However, combinatorial patterning applications are still limited. Here we present a method for cost-efficient combinatorial synthesis of very-high-density peptide arrays with natural and synthetic monomers. A laser automatically transfers nanometre-thin solid material spots from different donor slides to an acceptor. Each donor bears a thin polymer film, embedding one type of monomer. Coupling occurs in a separate heating step, where the matrix becomes viscous and building blocks diffuse and couple to the acceptor surface. Furthermore, we can consecutively deposit two material layers of activation reagents and amino acids. Subsequent heat-induced mixing facilitates an in situ activation and coupling of the monomers. This allows us to incorporate building blocks with click chemistry compatibility or a large variety of commercially available non-activated, for example, posttranslationally modified building blocks into the array's peptides with >17,000 spots per cm2Publicationtype: Journal Article13 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Robust recognition of micro-sized fiducial marks combining position and identification information(VDE Verlag, 2015-10); 5