Biotin tagging coupled with amino acid-coded mass tagging for efficient and precise screening of interaction proteome in mammalian cells

Proteomics. 2009 Dec;9(24):5414-24. doi: 10.1002/pmic.200800864.

Abstract

In mammalian cells, when tandem affinity purification approach is employed, the existence of untagged endogenous target protein and repetitive washing steps together result in overall low yield of purified/stable complexes and the loss of weakly and transiently interacting partners of biological significance. To avoid the trade-offs involving in methodological sensitivity, precision, and throughput, here we introduce an integrated method, biotin tagging coupled with amino acid-coded mass tagging, for highly sensitive and accurate screening of mammalian protein-protein interactions. Without the need of establishing a stable cell line, using a short peptide tag which could be specifically biotinylated in vivo, the biotin-tagged target/bait protein was then isolated along with its associates efficiently by streptavidin magnetic microbeads in a single step. In a pulled-down complex amino acid-coded mass tagging serves as "in-spectra" quantitative markers to distinguish those bait-specific interactors from non-specific background proteins under stringent criteria. Applying this biotin tagging coupled with amino acid-coded mass tagging approach, we first biotin-tagged in vivo a multi-functional protein family member, 14-3-3epsilon, which was expressed at close to endogenous level. Starting with approximately 20 millions of 293T cells which were significantly less than what needed for a tandem affinity purification run, 266 specific interactors of 14-3-3epsilon were identified in high confidence.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • 14-3-3 Proteins / analysis*
  • 14-3-3 Proteins / metabolism*
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Biotin / metabolism*
  • Biotinylation
  • Cell Line
  • Genetic Vectors / genetics
  • Humans
  • Magnetics
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Protein Interaction Mapping / methods*
  • Proteome / analysis*
  • Proteome / metabolism
  • Proteomics / methods
  • Streptavidin / metabolism
  • Transfection

Substances

  • 14-3-3 Proteins
  • Proteome
  • Biotin
  • Streptavidin