Huynh Kathy, Partch Carrie L
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California.
Curr Protoc Protein Sci. 2015 Feb 2;79:28.9.1-28.9.14. doi: 10.1002/0471140864.ps2809s79.
Purification of recombinant proteins for biochemical assays and structural studies is time-consuming and presents inherent difficulties that depend on the optimization of protein stability. The use of dyes to monitor thermal denaturation of proteins with sensitive fluorescence detection enables rapid and inexpensive determination of protein stability using real-time PCR instruments. By screening a wide range of solution conditions and additives in a 96-well format, the thermal shift assay easily identifies conditions that significantly enhance the stability of recombinant proteins. The same approach can be used as an initial low-cost screen to discover new protein-ligand interactions by capitalizing on increases in protein stability that typically occur upon ligand binding. This unit presents a methodological workflow for small-scale, high-throughput thermal denaturation of recombinant proteins in the presence of SYPRO Orange dye.
用于生化分析和结构研究的重组蛋白纯化既耗时,又存在一些固有困难,这些困难取决于蛋白稳定性的优化。使用染料通过灵敏的荧光检测来监测蛋白质的热变性,能够利用实时PCR仪器快速且低成本地测定蛋白质稳定性。通过在96孔板中筛选广泛的溶液条件和添加剂,热迁移分析能够轻松识别出可显著提高重组蛋白稳定性的条件。利用配体结合时通常会出现的蛋白质稳定性增加,同样的方法可用作初步的低成本筛选,以发现新的蛋白质-配体相互作用。本单元介绍了在SYPRO Orange染料存在下对重组蛋白进行小规模、高通量热变性分析的方法流程。