Single-step immunoaffinity purification and functional reconstitution of human phagocyte flavocytochrome b
Single-step immunoaffinity purification and functional reconstitution of human phagocyte flavocytochrome b
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jim.2007.10.008
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
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2.2
通讯作者:
Taylor, Ross M.
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作者:
Lord, Connie I.;Riesselman, Marcia H.;Taylor, Ross M.
Human neutrophil flavocytochrome b (Cyt b) is a heterodimeric, integral membrane protein that generates high levels of superoxide in the multisubunit NADPH oxidase complex. Since Cyt b is currently isolated in limited quantities, improved methods for purification from low levels of starting membranes (from both neutrophils and other expressing cell types) are important for the analysis of structure and catalytic mechanism. In the present study, the epitope-mapped monoclonal antibody CS9 was coupled to Sepharose beads and used as an affinity matrix for single-step immunoaffinity purification of Cyt b. Following solubilization of both human neutrophil and PLB-985 membrane fractions in the nonionic detergent octylglucoside, Cyt b was absorbed on the CS9-Sepharose affinity matrix and purified protein was eluted under non-denaturing conditions with an epitope-mimicking peptide. The high efficiency of this isolation procedure allowed Cyt b to be reproducibly purified from readily obtainable levels of starting membrane fractions (9 x 10(8) cell equivalents of neutrophil membranes and 2 x 10(9) cell equivalents of PLB-985 membranes). Since Cyt b could be affinity-purified in the detergent octylglucoside, high-level functional reconstitution was carried out directly on elution fractions by simple addition of solubilized phospholipid and subsequent dialysis for detergent removal. To our knowledge, this study describes the most efficient method for generating purified, functionally-reconstituted Cyt b and should facilitate analyses that require a highly-defined NADPH oxidase system. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.