| A Method for SUMO Modification of Proteins in vitro
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2018-10-05
[Abstract] The Small Ubiquitin-related Modifier (SUMO) is a protein that is post-translationally added to and reversibly removed from other proteins in eukaryotic cells. SUMO and enzymes of the SUMO pathway are well conserved from yeast to humans and SUMO modification regulates a variety of essential cellular processes including transcription, chromatin remodeling, DNA damage repair, and cell cycle progression. One of the challenges in studying SUMO modification in vivo is the relatively low steady-state level of a SUMO-modified protein due in part to the activity of SUMO deconjugating enzymes known as SUMO Isopeptidases or SENPs. Fortunately, the use of recombinant SUMO enzymes makes it possible to study SUMO modification in vitro. Here, we describe a sensitive method for ...
[摘要] 小泛素相关修饰物(SUMO)是一种蛋白质,其翻译后添加到真核细胞中并可逆地从其他蛋白质中去除。 SUMO和SUMO途径的酶从酵母到人类都很保守,SUMO修饰调节了多种基本细胞过程,包括转录,染色质重塑,DNA损伤修复和细胞周期进程。 研究SUMO修饰体内的挑战之一是SUMO修饰蛋白的相对低的稳态水平,部分原因是SUMO去缀合酶(SUMO Isopeptidases或SENPs)的活性。 幸运的是,使用重组SUMO酶可以在体外研究SUMO修饰。 在这里,我们描述了一种灵敏的方法,用于检测目标人类蛋白质的SUMO修饰,使用来自兔网织红细胞和放射性标记的氨基酸的体外转录和翻译系统。 【背景】与其他泛素蛋白家族修饰一样,SUMO修饰通过ATP依赖性酶促级联发生,涉及E1激活酶(人类中的Aos1 / Uba2异二聚体),E2结合酶(Ubc9)和许多E3连接之一的连续活性。酶(Gareau和Lima,2010)。具有SUMO缀合共有位点的蛋白质ΨKxE(Ψ是疏水残基,其后是赖氨酸,任何氨基酸和谷氨酸),可以通过哺乳动物中表达的一种或几种SUMO旁系同源物(包括SUMO1,SUMO2)进行有效修饰。或SUMO3(统称为SUMO2 / 3,因为它们的序列同源性为97%)(Gareau和Lima,2010; Flotho和Melchior,2013)。 ...
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| Mammalian Cell-derived Vesicles for the Isolation of Organelle Specific Transmembrane Proteins to Conduct Single Molecule Studies
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2018-05-05
[Abstract] Cell-derived vesicles facilitate the isolation of transmembrane proteins in their physiological membrane maintaining their structural and functional integrity. These vesicles can be generated from different cellular organelles producing, housing, or transporting the proteins. Combined with single-molecule imaging, isolated organelle specific vesicles can be employed to study the trafficking and assembly of the embedded proteins. Here we present a method for organelle specific single molecule imaging via isolation of ER and plasma membrane vesicles from HEK293T cells by employing OptiPrep gradients and nitrogen cavitation. The isolation was validated through Western blotting, and the isolated vesicles were used to perform single molecule studies of oligomeric receptor assembly.
[摘要] 细胞衍生的囊泡促进跨膜蛋白在其生理膜中的分离,从而维持其结构和功能完整性。 这些囊泡可以由产生,容纳或运输蛋白质的不同细胞器产生。 结合单分子成像,可以使用分离的细胞器特异性囊泡来研究嵌入蛋白质的运输和组装。 在这里,我们提出了一种通过使用OptiPrep梯度和氮气穴通过从HEK293T细胞中分离ER和质膜囊泡来进行细胞器特异性单分子成像的方法。 通过Western印迹验证分离,并使用分离的囊泡进行寡聚受体组装的单分子研究。
【背景】大量的跨膜蛋白通过多个亚基的组装形成,导致复杂的寡聚结构,其可以通常以多种化学计量存在。了解组装中的变化如何改变在不同细胞器中的贩运和本地化对于确定蛋白质的生理作用以及与成熟和运输相关的疾病的连接至关重要。单分子方法可以通过直接测量其化学计量比来更好地理解寡聚蛋白的组装(Ulbrich和Isacoff,2007; Richards等人,2012)。这种方法避免了整体平均,从而提供了所有化学计量的平均状态(Walter and Bustamante,2014)。单分子研究近来已被用于理解大分子的结构和功能特性,包括构象动力学(Tan等人,2014),离子通道门控(Wang等人 ,2016),配体 - 受体相互作用(Moonschi等人,2015)和化学计量组装(Ulbrich和Isacoff,2007; ...
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