| Autor: |
O'Connor HF; Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Swaim CD; Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Canadeo LA; Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Huibregtse JM; Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. huibregtse@austin.utexas.edu. |
| Abstrakt: |
UBAITs (Ubiquitin-Activated Interaction Traps) are reagents that capitalize on the biochemistry of the ubiquitin system to covalently trap transient protein-protein interactions. UBAITs consist of an affinity-tagged protein of interest fused to a short linker followed by a C-terminal ubiquitin moiety. When charged in an E1- and E2-dependent manner, the C-terminal ubiquitin moiety of the UBAIT has the potential to form an amide linkage with lysine side chains of a protein that interacts transiently with the protein of interest, thereby covalently trapping the protein-protein interaction. The partner protein can then be identified by affinity-based purification of the UBAIT coupled with mass spectroscopy methods. While originally designed to identify substrates of ubiquitin ligases, UBAITs can, in principle, be used for identifying interaction partners of virtually any protein of interest. Here we describe methods for utilizing UBAITs in both cell-based and in vitro experiments. |
