Abstract
Polymorphonuclear neutrophils play a key role in host defense and inflammation. Neutrophils can be activated by a variety of soluble and particulate factors, leading to an increase in the phosphorylation of numerous proteins on tyrosines, serines and threonines. Upon covalent binding of phosphates to these amino acids, the charge and conformation of the corresponding proteins are modified, generally leading to changes in protein functions such as protein-protein interactions and enzymatic activity. Protein phosphorylation in neutrophils can be studied by following protein incorporation of radiolabeled inorganic phosphate. This technique is based on labeling the intracellular ATP pool with 32P prior to applying a stimulus that induces changes in protein phosphorylation status. The proteins are extracted from the cells, immunoprecipitated or not, resolved on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, then transferred onto nitrocellulose membranes and visualized by means of autoradiography. Phosphorylated sites of a multisite-phosphorylated protein can be analyzed by using two-dimensional tryptic phosphopeptide mapping. This chapter describes a phosphorylation protocol and the analysis of the phosphorylation of a neutrophil protein, p47phox, by two-dimensional tryptic phosphopeptide mapping.
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El-Benna, J., Dang, P.MC. (2007). Analysis of Protein Phosphorylation in Human Neutrophils. In: Quinn, M.T., DeLeo, F.R., Bokoch, G.M. (eds) Neutrophil Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 412. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-467-4_7
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