Organic solvent extraction as a versatile procedure to identify hydrophobic chloroplast membrane proteins

Autor: Daphné Seigneurin-Berny, Myriam Ferro, Daniel Salvi, Jacques Joyard, Agnès Chapel, Norbert Rolland, Jérôme Garin
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Electrophoresis. 21:3517-3526
ISSN: 1522-2683
0173-0835
DOI: 10.1002/1522-2683(20001001)21:16<3517::aid-elps3517>3.0.co;2-h
Popis: As a complementary approach to genome projects, proteomic analyses have been set up to identify new gene products. One of the major challenges in proteomics concerns membrane proteins, especially the minor ones. A procedure based on the differential extraction of membrane proteins in chloroform/methanol mixtures, was tested on the two different chloroplast membrane systems: envolope and thylakoid membranes. Combining the use of classical sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and mass spectrometry analyses, this procedure enabled identification of hydrophobic proteins. The propensity of hydrophobic proteins to partition in chloroform/methanol mixtures was directly correlated with the number of amino acid residues/number of putative transmembrane regions (Res/TM ratio). Regardless of the particular case of some lipid-interacting proteins, chloroform/methanol extractions allowed enrichment of hydrophobic proteins and exclusion of hydrophilic proteins from both membrane systems, thus demonstrating the versatility of the procedure.
Databáze: OpenAIRE