HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supplemental Data All Versions of this Article: T600009-MCP200v1 5/9/1667    most recent Submit a response Alert me when this article is cited Alert me when eLetters are posted Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Glossary Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Roman, I. Articles by Zizi, M. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Roman, I. Articles by Zizi, M. Social Bookmarking                      What's this?

Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 5:1667-1680, 2006.
© 2006 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

---

Technology

Hunting Interactomes of a Membrane Protein

Obtaining the Largest Set of Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel-Interacting Protein Epitopes ^*,S

Inge Roman, Jurgen Figys^,, Griet Steurs^, and Martin Zizi^,,¶

From the Department of Physiology (FYSP), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 1090 Brussels, Belgium and Division Studies, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Defense, 1120 Brussels, Belgium

The identification of epitopes involved in protein-protein interactions is essential for understanding protein structure and function. Large scale efforts, although identifying the interactions, did not always yield these epitopes, could not confirm most of the known interactions, and seemed particularly unsuccessful for native intrinsic membrane proteins. We have developed a fluidics-based approach (non-steady-state kinetics) to obtain the broadest set of the epitopes interacting with a given target and applied it to a phage display methodology optimized for membrane proteins. Phages expressing a liver cDNA library were screened against a membrane protein (voltage-dependent anion channel) reconstituted into liposomes and captured on a chip surface. The controlled fluidics was obtained by a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) device that combined the advantages of working with minute reaction volumes and non-equilibrium conditions. We demonstrated selective enrichment of binders and could even select for different binding affinities by fractionation of the selected outputs at various elution times. With voltage-dependent anion channel as bait (a mitochondrial channel critical for cellular metabolism and apoptosis) we found at least 40% of its already reported ligands and independently confirmed 55 novel functional interactions, some of which fully blocked the channel. This highly efficient approach is generally applicable for any protein and could be automated and scaled up even without the use of a SPR device. The epitopes directly identified by this method are useful not only for unraveling interactomes but also for drug design and therapeutics.

CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?