Amylose Resin Assay of MBP-5HIS to QDs. Affinity columns
(25 mm 76 mm) of amylose resin (New England Biolabs, Beverly,
MA) were setup and equilibrated with 10 mM Na-tetraborate buffer
(pH 9.55).9 Then, 100 pmol of CdSe-ZnS QDs capped with 6, 10,
and a 1:1 mixture of 6 and 10 was mixed with the equivalent of 20
maltose binding proteins appended with an oligohistidine tail (MBPHIS)
per QD in 200 ¨ªL aliquots of 10 mM borate buffer at pH 9.55
and allowed to self-assemble for 1 h.9,16 Duplicates of each sample
tested were loaded onto the amylose resin pre-equilibrated in buffer.
After binding to the column, samples were washed with 1 mL of buffer,
eluted with 20 mM maltose in buffer, and the eluant captured. The
eluant was brought up to 500 ¨ªL with 20 mM maltose in buffer. A
quantity of 100 ¨ªL of all samples was then loaded onto a microtiter
well plate in triplicate, and the PL was measured on a Tecan Safire
plate reader (Tecan US, Research Triangle Park NC). By normalizing
the PL of the DHLA-capped QD self-assembly mixture to 100%, we
could estimate the percent of each QD sample binding to the column
and being released with maltose relative to the solution containing
DHLA-capped QDs (Figure 4).
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