TXTL-Powered K1F Internal Capsid Protein Engineering for Specific, Orthogonal and Rapid Phage-based Pathogen Detection
biorxiv(2024)
摘要
The internal capsid proteins that reside within phage of the Podoviridae family hold high potential for being used as sensitive and reliable diagnostic tools. The concealed nature of the capsid interior ensures that any encapsulated signal or signal generating enzyme, e.g., fused to an internal capsid protein, is suppressed whilst the phage is unaccompanied by its host. Furthermore, the only naturally occurring mechanism for releasing the internal capsid proteins, and therefore exposing their amalgamated signal/enzyme, is for them to be passed through the tail and subsequently ejected out of the phage, a post-adsorption phenomenon which occurs when the host is present, thus presenting a precise model for signal/enzyme release only upon pathogen presence. Here, a small N terminal subunit of the NanoLuc luciferase is fused and incorporated into the K1F internal capsid structure using a simple, non-genomic method. This internalised subunit is exposed to the test solution containing its C terminal counterpart (natural complementation immediately forms the full NanoLuc enzyme) and substrate furimazine in an inducible manner which mimics the presence of the K1F host, E. coli K1 thereby presenting a novel method for rapidly detecting this disease causing pathogen. Finally, it is expected that by building upon this internal capsid protein engineering approach, which completely bypasses the time-inducing processes of intracellular nucleic acid transcription and translation, an unprecedentedly rapid detection device can be developed for an array of bacterial pathogens.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
* AMR
: Antimicrobial resistance
ELISA
: Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
AuNP
: Gold nanoparticle
PCR
: Polymerase chain reaction
NASBA
: Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification
LAMP
: Loop-mediated isothermal amplification
RPA
: Recombinase polymerase amplification
GP
: General practice
LFT
: Lateral flow test
TXTL
: transcription-translation
ICP
: Internal capsid protein
CtNL
: C-terminal sub-unit of NanoLuc
NtNL
: N-terminal sub-unit of NanoLuc
Wt
: Wild-type
PFU
: Plaque forming units
RLU
: Relative light units
GFP
: Green fluorescent protein
LoD
: Limit of detection
SoD
: Speed of detection
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