Bioorthogonal site-selective conjugation of fluorescent dyes to antibodies: method and potential applications

Grossenbacher, Philipp; Essers, Maria C; Moser, Joël; Singer, Simon A; Häusler, Stephanie; Stieger, Bruno; Rougier, Jean-Sébastien; Lochner, Martin (2022). Bioorthogonal site-selective conjugation of fluorescent dyes to antibodies: method and potential applications. RSC advances, 12(44), pp. 28306-28317. Royal Society of Chemistry 10.1039/d2ra05580e

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Antibodies are immensely useful tools for biochemical research and have found application in numerous protein detection and purification methods. Moreover, monoclonal antibodies are increasingly utilised as therapeutics or, conjugated to active pharmaceutical ingredients, in targeted chemotherapy. Several reagents and protocols are reported to synthesise fluorescent antibodies for protein target detection and immunofluorescence applications. However, most of these protocols lead to non-selective conjugation, over-labelling or in the worst case antigen binding site modification. Here, we have used the antibody disulphide cleavage and re-bridging strategy to introduce bright fluorescent dyes without loss of the antibody function. The resulting fluorescent IgG1 type antibodies were shown to be effective imaging tools in western blot and direct immunofluorescence experiments.

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