Chapter title |
E. coli-Based Selection and Expression Systems for Discovery, Characterization, and Purification of Ubiquitylated Proteins
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Chapter number | 11 |
Book title |
The Ubiquitin Proteasome System
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, September 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-8706-1_11 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-8705-4, 978-1-4939-8706-1
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Authors |
Olga Levin-Kravets, Tal Keren-Kaplan, Ilan Attali, Itai Sharon, Neta Tanner, Dar Shapira, Ritu Rathi, Avinash Persaud, Noa Shohat, Anna Shusterman, Gali Prag, Levin-Kravets, Olga, Keren-Kaplan, Tal, Attali, Ilan, Sharon, Itai, Tanner, Neta, Shapira, Dar, Rathi, Ritu, Persaud, Avinash, Shohat, Noa, Shusterman, Anna, Prag, Gali |
Abstract |
Ubiquitylation is an eukaryotic signal that regulates most cellular pathways. However, four major hurdles pose challenges to study ubiquitylation: (1) high redundancy between ubiquitin (Ub) cascades, (2) ubiquitylation is tightly regulated in the cell, (3) the transient nature of the Ub signal, and (4) difficulties to purify functional ubiquitylation apparatus for in vitro assay. Here, we present systems that express functional Ub cascades in E. coli, which lacks deubiquitylases, Ub-dependent degradations, and control mechanisms for ubiquitylation. Therefore, expression of an ubiquitylation cascade results in the accumulation of stable ubiquitylated protein that can be genetically selected or purified, thus circumventing the above challenges. Co-expression of split antibiotic resistance protein fragments tethered to Ub and ubiquitylation targets along with ubiquitylation enzymes (E1, E2, and E3) gives rise to bacterial growth on selective media. We show that ubiquitylation rate is highly correlated with growth efficiency. Hence, genetic libraries and simple manipulations in the selection system facilitate the identification and characterization of components and interfaces along Ub cascades. The bacterial expression system also facilitates the detection of ubiquitylated proteins. Furthermore, the expression system allows affinity chromatography-based purification of milligram quantities of ubiquitylated proteins for downstream biochemical, biophysical, and structural studies. |
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