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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Am Chem Soc
. 2024 Jul 19.
doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c06172. Online ahead of print. Fluorogenic Peptide Sensor Array Derived from Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 Classifies Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variants of Concern
Wei-Tao Dou[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Pei-Hong Tong[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Man Xing[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Jiao-Jiao Liu[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Xi-Le Hu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Tony D James[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Dong-Ming Zhou[SUP] 5 2 [/SUP], Xiao-Peng He[SUP] 1 6 [/SUP]
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The devastating COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has made society acutely aware of the urgency in developing effective techniques to timely monitor the outbreak of previously unknown viral species as well as their mutants, which could be even more lethal and/or contagious. Here, we report a fluorogenic sensor array consisting of peptides truncated from the binding domain of human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) for SARS-CoV-2. A set of five fluorescently tagged peptides were used to construct the senor array in the presence of different low-dimensional quenching materials. When orthogonally incubated with the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 and its variants of concern (VOCs), the fluorescence of each peptide probe was specifically recovered, and the different recovery rates provide a "fingerprint" characteristic of each viral strain. This, in turn, allows them to be differentiated from each other using principal component analysis. Interestingly, the classification result from our sensor array agrees well with the evolutionary relationship similarity of the VOCs. This study offers insight into the development of effective sensing tools for highly contagious viruses and their mutants based on rationally truncating peptide ligands from human receptors.
. 2024 Jul 19.
doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c06172. Online ahead of print. Fluorogenic Peptide Sensor Array Derived from Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 Classifies Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variants of Concern
Wei-Tao Dou[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Pei-Hong Tong[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Man Xing[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Jiao-Jiao Liu[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Xi-Le Hu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Tony D James[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Dong-Ming Zhou[SUP] 5 2 [/SUP], Xiao-Peng He[SUP] 1 6 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 39029108
- DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c06172
The devastating COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has made society acutely aware of the urgency in developing effective techniques to timely monitor the outbreak of previously unknown viral species as well as their mutants, which could be even more lethal and/or contagious. Here, we report a fluorogenic sensor array consisting of peptides truncated from the binding domain of human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) for SARS-CoV-2. A set of five fluorescently tagged peptides were used to construct the senor array in the presence of different low-dimensional quenching materials. When orthogonally incubated with the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 and its variants of concern (VOCs), the fluorescence of each peptide probe was specifically recovered, and the different recovery rates provide a "fingerprint" characteristic of each viral strain. This, in turn, allows them to be differentiated from each other using principal component analysis. Interestingly, the classification result from our sensor array agrees well with the evolutionary relationship similarity of the VOCs. This study offers insight into the development of effective sensing tools for highly contagious viruses and their mutants based on rationally truncating peptide ligands from human receptors.