Abstract
Stimuli-responsive receptors for the recognition unit of the cholera toxin (CTB) have been prepared by attaching multiple copies of its natural carbohydrate ligand, the GM1 oligosaccharide, to a thermoresponsive polymer scaffold. Below their lower critical solution temperature (LCST), polymers complex CTB with nanomolar affinity. When heated above their LCST, polymers undergo a reversible coil to globule transition which renders a proportion of the carbohydrate recognition motifs inaccessible to CTB. This thermally-modulated decrease in the avidity of the material for the protein has been used to reversibly capture CTB from solution, enabling its convenient isolation from a complex mixture.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 112-127 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Faraday discussions |
| Volume | 219 |
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| Publication status | Published - 30 Oct 2019 |