Lee Hyun Soo, Dimla Romerson D, Schultz Peter G
Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2009 Sep 1;19(17):5222-4. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.07.011. Epub 2009 Jul 9.
The photo-crosslinking amino acid, p-benzoyl-L-phenylalanine (pBpa), was genetically incorporated into Escherichia coli catabolite activator protein (CAP) in bacteria in response to an amber nonsense codon using an orthogonal tRNA/aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase pair. The mutant CAP (CAP-K26Bpa) containing pBpa formed a covalent complex with a DNA fragment containing the consensus operator sequence upon UV irradiation. Because this amino acid can be genetically incorporated into any DNA-binding protein in E. coli, yeast or mammalian cells with minimal perturbation of protein structure, this method should be generally useful for investigating DNA-protein interactions.
利用一对正交的tRNA/氨酰-tRNA合成酶,将光交联氨基酸对苯甲酰-L-苯丙氨酸(pBpa)响应琥珀色无义密码子,在细菌中基因编码到大肠杆菌分解代谢物激活蛋白(CAP)中。含有pBpa的突变型CAP(CAP-K26Bpa)在紫外线照射下与含有共有操纵序列的DNA片段形成共价复合物。由于这种氨基酸能够在对蛋白质结构产生最小干扰的情况下,基因编码到大肠杆菌、酵母或哺乳动物细胞中的任何DNA结合蛋白中,因此该方法对于研究DNA-蛋白质相互作用应具有普遍的实用性。