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Analyzing Dynamic Protein Complexes Assembled On and Released From Biolayer Interferometry Biosensor Using Mass Spectrometry and Electron Microscopy

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Machen, Alexandra J.; O'Neil, Pierce T.; Pentelute, Bradley L.; Villar, Maria T.; Artigues, Antonio; Fisher, Mark T.; ... Show more Show less
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In vivo, proteins are often part of large macromolecular complexes where binding specificity and dynamics ultimately dictate functional outputs. In this work, the pre-endosomal anthrax toxin is assembled and transitioned into the endosomal complex. First, the N-terminal domain of a cysteine mutant lethal factor (LF[subscript N]) is attached to a biolayer interferometry (BLI) biosensor through disulfide coupling in an optimal orientation, allowing protective antigen (PA) prepore to bind (K[subscript d] 1 nM). The optimally oriented LF[subscript N]-PA[subscript prepore] complex then binds to soluble capillary morphogenic gene-2 (CMG2) cell surface receptor (K[subscript d] 170 pM), resulting in a representative anthrax pre-endosomal complex, stable at pH 7.5. This assembled complex is then subjected to acidification (pH 5.0) representative of the late endosome environment to transition the PA[subscript prepore] into the membrane inserted pore state. This PA[subscript pore] state results in a weakened binding between the CMG2 receptor and the LF[subscript N]-PA[subscript pore] and a substantial dissociation of CMG2 from the transition pore. The thio-attachment of LF[subscript N] to the biosensor surface is easily reversed by dithiothreitol. Reduction on the BLI biosensor surface releases the LF[subscript N]-PA[subscript prepore]-CMG2 ternary complex or the acid transitioned LF[subscript N]-PA[subscript pore] complexes into microliter volumes. Released complexes are then visualized and identified using electron microscopy and mass spectrometry. These experiments demonstrate how to monitor the kinetic assembly/disassembly of specific protein complexes using label-free BLI methodologies and evaluate the structure and identity of these BLI assembled complexes by electron microscopy and mass spectrometry, respectively, using easy-to-replicate sequential procedures.
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2018-08
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123678
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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MyJove Corporation
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Machen, Alexandra .J. et al. "Analyzing Dynamic Protein Complexes Assembled On and Released From Biolayer Interferometry Biosensor Using Mass Spectrometry and Electron Microscopy." Journal of Visualized Experiments 138 (2018): e57902 © 2018 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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1940-087X

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