Abstract
Identifying the partners of a given protein (the interactome) may provide leads about the protein’s function and the molecular mechanisms in which it is involved. One of the alternative strategies used to characterize protein interactomes consists of co-immunoprecipitation (co-IP) followed by shotgun mass spectrometry. This enables the isolation and identification of a protein target in its native state and its interactome from cells or tissue lysates under physiological conditions. In this chapter, we describe a co-IP protocol for interactome studies that uses an antibody against a protein of interest bound to protein A/G plus agarose beads to isolate a protein complex. The interacting proteins may be further fractionated by SDS-PAGE, followed by in-gel tryptic digestion and nano liquid chromatography high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (nLC ESI-MS/MS) for identification purposes. The computational tools, strategy for protein identification, and use of interactome databases also will be described.
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D.M.S. is funded by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation, grants 2013/08711-3, 2013/25702-8, and 2014/10068-4).
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Maccarrone, G., Bonfiglio, J.J., Silberstein, S., Turck, C.W., Martins-de-Souza, D. (2017). Characterization of a Protein Interactome by Co-Immunoprecipitation and Shotgun Mass Spectrometry. In: Guest, P.C. (eds) Multiplex Biomarker Techniques. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1546. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6730-8_19
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