A Bifunctional Amino Acid Enables Both Covalent Chemical Capture and Isolation of in Vivo Protein-Protein Interactions

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In vivo covalent chemical capture by using photoactivatable unnatural amino acids (UAAs) is a powerful tool for the identification of transient protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in their native environment. However, the isolation and characterization of the crosslinked complexes can be challenging. Here, we report the first in vivo incorporation of the bifunctional UAA BPKyne for the capture and direct labeling of crosslinked protein complexes through post-crosslinking functionalization of a bioorthogonal alkyne handle. Using the prototypical yeast transcriptional activator Gal4, we demonstrate that BPKyne is incorporated at the same level as the commonly used photoactivatable UAA pBpa and effectively captures the Gal4-Gal80 transcriptional complex. Post-crosslinking, the Gal4-Gal80 adduct was directly labeled by treatment of the alkyne handle with a biotin-azide probe; this enabled facile isolation and visualization of the crosslinked adduct from whole-cell lysate. This bifunctional amino acid extends the utility of the benzophenone crosslinker and expands our toolbox of chemical probes for mapping PPIs in their native cellular environment.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology - 18(2017), 2 vom: 17. Jan., Seite 181-184

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Joiner, Cassandra M [VerfasserIn]
Breen, Meghan E [VerfasserIn]
Clayton, James [VerfasserIn]
Mapp, Anna K [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

6SO6U10H04
701M4TTV9O
789U1901C5
Alkynes
Amino Acids
Azides
Benzophenone
Benzophenones
Bioorthogonal labeling
Biotin
Click chemistry
Copper
Cross-Linking Reagents
DNA-Binding Proteins
GAL4 protein, S cerevisiae
GAL80 protein, S cerevisiae
Journal Article
Photo-crosslinking
Protein-protein interactions
Repressor Proteins
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
Transcription Factors
Unnatural amino acids

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Date Completed 10.05.2017

Date Revised 10.05.2017

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/cbic.201600578

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM267106513