Assembly-dependent trafficking assays in the detection of receptor-receptor interactions
| Autor: | Marta Margeta-Mitrovic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Vesicle-associated membrane protein 8
Endoplasmic reticulum Protein subunit Cytological Techniques Receptors Cell Surface Biology Protein Sorting Signals Endoplasmic Reticulum General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Cell biology Protein–protein interaction Transport protein Epitopes Protein Transport Xenopus laevis Membrane protein COS Cells Oocytes Animals Molecular Biology Integral membrane protein Secretory pathway |
| Zdroj: | Methods (San Diego, Calif.). 27(4) |
| ISSN: | 1046-2023 |
| Popis: | Assembly-dependent trafficking is a property of many multimeric membrane protein complexes; this coupling of assembly and trafficking processes provides an important cellular quality control mechanism, ensuring that only properly folded and assembled complexes are expressed on the cell surface. In all membrane protein complexes whose trafficking is known to be assembly-dependent, at least one of the subunits contains an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention/retrieval signal that is shielded on subunit assembly, allowing the assembled protein complex to traffic to the plasma membrane. Under these conditions, presence of the normally retained subunit on the cell surface can be used as an indirect index of protein assembly in the ER. In this article, I describe the design of two complementary approaches (trafficking enhancement and trap assays) that can be used separately or in combination to determine whether two (or more) proteins assemble in the ER, i.e., whether they constitutively oligomerize. Both of the approaches are based on the measurement of plasma membrane-expressed proteins using antibody-mediated detection of extracellularly expressed epitopes and subsequent luminometric quantification. These methods provide a straightforward and relatively inexpensive way to assess protein-protein interactions early in the synthetic pathway. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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