ZERO-LENGTH CROSSLINKING PROCEDURE WITH THE USE OF ACTIVE ESTERS
ZERO-LENGTH CROSSLINKING PROCEDURE WITH THE USE OF ACTIVE ESTERS
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(90)90267-d
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发表时间:
1990-02-15
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
GERGELY, J
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作者:
GRABAREK, Z;GERGELY, J
A two-sep zero-length crosslinking procedure for studying protein-protein complexes has been developed. One component of a complex is briefly incubated with 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC) in the presence of N-hydroxysuccinimide resulting in the conversion of some of the protein carboxyls into succinimidyl esters. The reaction is stopped by addition of .beta.-mercaptoethanol and other interacting proteins are then added. Crosslinking arises from substitution of lysine .epsilon.-amino grops of these proteins for the succinimidyl moieties during a 1- to 2-h incubation period. The advantage of this method versus one-step zero-length crosslinking is that only one component of the complex is exposed to the crosslinker, which eliminates complications arising from the formation of crosslinks among several proteins of a multicomponent complex. Furthermore, crosslinks can be formed even in the presence of reagents, such as dithiothreitol and EDTA, that would interfere with direct crosslinking with EDC.