Measuring Gli2 Phosphorylation by Selected Reaction Monitoring Mass Spectrometry

Methods Mol Biol. 2015:1322:105-23. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2772-2_10.

Abstract

Phosphorylation is an important mechanism by which Gli proteins are regulated. When the Hedgehog (Hh) pathway is activated, multiple serine and threonine residues of Gli2 are dephosphorylated, while at least one residue undergoes phosphorylation. These changes in phosphorylation have functional relevance for the transcriptional activity of Gli proteins, as shown by in vitro and in vivo assays on Gli mutants lacking the phosphorylated residues. Here, we describe a method of quantitatively monitoring the phosphorylation of Gli proteins by triple quadrupole mass spectrometry of Gli2 immunoprecipitated from cell lysates. This method is broadly applicable to the monitoring of phosphorylation changes of immunoprecipitated Gli proteins when the putative phosphosites are known.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Immunoprecipitation / methods
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors / chemistry
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors / metabolism*
  • Mass Spectrometry* / methods
  • Mice
  • NIH 3T3 Cells
  • Peptide Fragments / chemistry
  • Peptide Fragments / metabolism
  • Phosphorylation
  • Proteolysis
  • Zinc Finger Protein Gli2

Substances

  • Gli2 protein, mouse
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors
  • Peptide Fragments
  • Zinc Finger Protein Gli2