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Lyu Q, Dhagia V, Han Y, Guo B, Wines-Samuelson ME, Christie CK, Yin Q, Slivano OJ, Herring P, Long X, Gupte SA, Miano JM. CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Epitope Tagging Provides Accurate and Versatile Assessment of Myocardin-Brief Report. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2018; 38:2184-2190. [PMID: 29976770 PMCID: PMC6204210 DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.118.311171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Accepted: 06/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Objective- Unreliable antibodies often hinder the accurate detection of an endogenous protein, and this is particularly true for the cardiac and smooth muscle cofactor, MYOCD (myocardin). Accordingly, the mouse Myocd locus was targeted with 2 independent epitope tags for the unambiguous expression, localization, and activity of MYOCD protein. Approach and Results- 3cCRISPR (3-component clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat) was used to engineer a carboxyl-terminal 3×FLAG or 3×HA epitope tag in mouse embryos. Western blotting with antibodies to each tag revealed a MYOCD protein product of ≈150 kDa, a size considerably larger than that reported in virtually all publications. MYOCD protein was most abundant in some adult smooth muscle-containing tissues with surprisingly low-level expression in the heart. Both alleles of Myocd are active in aorta because a 2-fold increase in protein was seen in mice homozygous versus heterozygous for FLAG-tagged Myocd. ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation)-quantitative polymerase chain reaction studies provide proof-of-principle data demonstrating the utility of this mouse line in conducting genome-wide ChIP-seq studies to ascertain the full complement of MYOCD-dependent target genes in vivo. Although FLAG-tagged MYOCD protein was undetectable in sections of adult mouse tissues, low-passaged vascular smooth muscle cells exhibited expected nuclear localization. Conclusions- This report validates new mouse models for analyzing MYOCD protein expression, localization, and binding activity in vivo and highlights the need for rigorous authentication of antibodies in biomedical research.
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- Qing Lyu
- Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of
Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College,
Valhalla NY
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- Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of
Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of
Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of
Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of
Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of
Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of
Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana
University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany
Medical College, Albany, NY 12208
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- Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College,
Valhalla NY
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- Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of
Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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Walther KA, Papke B, Sinn MB, Michel K, Kinkhabwala A. Precise measurement of protein interacting fractions with fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2011; 7:322-36. [PMID: 21221430 DOI: 10.1039/c0mb00132e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Precise quantification of endogenous protein-protein interactions across live cells would be a major boon to biology. Such precise measurement is theoretically possible with fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) but requires first properly addressing multiple biological, instrumental, statistical, and photophysical challenges. We present a detailed investigation of the last three FLIM-specific challenges. Using an efficient, highly accurate analysis code for time-domain FLIM data that accounts for all significant instrumental artifacts (in part, through use of a parametrized model for the instrument response function) and is rigorously based on both conventional statistics (full lifetime histogram fitting by χ(2) minimization) and novel statistics (single pixel fitting of lifetime populations using "maximum fidelity"), we address multiple photophysical challenges, including the proper side-by-side statistical comparison of fluorophore monoexponentiality, the precise assessment of fluorophore lifetimes and lifetime photostability, and the determination of acceptor dark state fractions. Finally, we demonstrate the feasibility of precise measurement of the interacting fraction of a protein across live cells with FLIM.
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- Kirstin A Walther
- Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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Fernández E, Collins MO, Uren RT, Kopanitsa MV, Komiyama NH, Croning MDR, Zografos L, Armstrong JD, Choudhary JS, Grant SGN. Targeted tandem affinity purification of PSD-95 recovers core postsynaptic complexes and schizophrenia susceptibility proteins. Mol Syst Biol 2009; 5:269. [PMID: 19455133 PMCID: PMC2694677 DOI: 10.1038/msb.2009.27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2008] [Accepted: 04/01/2009] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The molecular complexity of mammalian proteomes demands new methods for mapping the organization of multiprotein complexes. Here, we combine mouse genetics and proteomics to characterize synapse protein complexes and interaction networks. New tandem affinity purification (TAP) tags were fused to the carboxyl terminus of PSD-95 using gene targeting in mice. Homozygous mice showed no detectable abnormalities in PSD-95 expression, subcellular localization or synaptic electrophysiological function. Analysis of multiprotein complexes purified under native conditions by mass spectrometry defined known and new interactors: 118 proteins comprising crucial functional components of synapses, including glutamate receptors, K+ channels, scaffolding and signaling proteins, were recovered. Network clustering of protein interactions generated five connected clusters, with two clusters containing all the major ionotropic glutamate receptors and one cluster with voltage-dependent K+ channels. Annotation of clusters with human disease associations revealed that multiple disorders map to the network, with a significant correlation of schizophrenia within the glutamate receptor clusters. This targeted TAP tagging strategy is generally applicable to mammalian proteomics and systems biology approaches to disease.
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- Esperanza Fernández
- Genes to Cognition Programme, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
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Andersen DS, Tapon N. Drosophila MFAP1 is required for pre-mRNA processing and G2/M progression. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:31256-67. [PMID: 18765666 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m803512200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The mammalian spliceosome has mainly been studied using proteomics. The isolation and comparison of different splicing intermediates has revealed the dynamic association of more than 200 splicing factors with the spliceosome, relatively few of which have been studied in detail. Here, we report the characterization of the Drosophila homologue of microfibril-associated protein 1 (dMFAP1), a previously uncharacterized protein found in some human spliceosomal fractions ( Jurica, M. S., and Moore, M. J. (2003) Mol. Cell 12, 5-14 ). We show that dMFAP1 binds directly to the Drosophila homologue of Prp38p (dPrp38), a tri-small nuclear ribonucleoprotein component ( Xie, J., Beickman, K., Otte, E., and Rymond, B. C. (1998) EMBO J. 17, 2938-2946 ), and is required for pre-mRNA processing. dMFAP1, like dPrp38, is essential for viability, and our in vivo data show that cells with reduced levels of dMFAP1 or dPrp38 proliferate more slowly than normal cells and undergo apoptosis. Consistent with this, double-stranded RNA-mediated depletion of dPrp38 or dMFAP1 causes cells to arrest in G(2)/M, and this is paralleled by a reduction in mRNA levels of the mitotic phosphatase string/cdc25. Interestingly double-stranded RNA-mediated depletion of a wide range of core splicing factors elicits a similar phenotype, suggesting that the observed G(2)/M arrest might be a general consequence of interfering with spliceosome function.
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- Ditte S Andersen
- Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, London WC2A 3PX, UK
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Plants control the time at which they flower by integrating environmental cues such as day length and temperature with an endogenous program of development. Flowering time is a quantitative trait and a model for how precision in gene regulation is delivered. In this review, we reveal that flowering time control is particularly rich in RNA processing-based gene regulatory phenomena. We review those factors which function in conserved RNA processing events like alternative 3' end formation, splicing, RNA export and miRNA biogenesis and how they affect flowering time. Likewise, we review the novel plant-specific RNA-binding proteins identified as regulators of flowering time control. In addition, we add to the network of flowering time control pathways, information on alternative processing of flowering time gene pre-mRNAs. Finally, we describe new approaches to dissect the mechanisms which underpin this control.
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- L C Terzi
- Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, UK
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Maue RA. Understanding ion channel biology using epitope tags: progress, pitfalls, and promise. J Cell Physiol 2007; 213:618-25. [PMID: 17849449 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Epitope tags have been increasingly used to understand ion channel subunit assembly and interaction, trafficking, subcellular localization, and function in living cells. In particular, epitope tags have proven extremely useful for analyses of closely related, highly homologous channel subunits in endogenous cell contexts in vitro and in vivo, where multiple channel isoforms may be expressed. However, as the variety of epitope tags that have been used has expanded, and the use of tagged channel subunits has become increasingly sophisticated and widespread, there has also been an increase in the number of examples highlighting the potential problems associated with the use of epitope tags for ion channel studies. Described here are some of the epitope tags that have been used to study ion channel subunits, including the HA, FLAG, myc, His6, and green fluorescent protein (GFP) epitopes, as well as some of the applications and avenues of research in which they have proven advantageous. Potential pitfalls and caveats associated with the use of these epitope tags are also discussed, with an emphasis on the need to include careful characterization of epitope-tagged channel subunits as part of their construction. Finally, potential avenues for future investigation and the development of this approach are considered.
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- Robert A Maue
- Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA.
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Chen YIG, Moore RE, Ge HY, Young MK, Lee TD, Stevens SW. Proteomic analysis of in vivo-assembled pre-mRNA splicing complexes expands the catalog of participating factors. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:3928-44. [PMID: 17537823 PMCID: PMC1919476 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Previous compositional studies of pre-mRNA processing complexes have been performed in vitro on synthetic pre-mRNAs containing a single intron. To provide a more comprehensive list of polypeptides associated with the pre-mRNA splicing apparatus, we have determined the composition of the bulk pre-mRNA processing machinery in living cells. We purified endogenous nuclear pre-mRNA processing complexes from human and chicken cells comprising the massive (>200S) supraspliceosomes (a.k.a. polyspliceosomes). As expected, RNA components include a heterogeneous mixture of pre-mRNAs and the five spliceosomal snRNAs. In addition to known pre-mRNA splicing factors, 5′ end binding factors, 3′ end processing factors, mRNA export factors, hnRNPs and other RNA binding proteins, the protein components identified by mass spectrometry include RNA adenosine deaminases and several novel factors. Intriguingly, our purified supraspliceosomes also contain a number of structural proteins, nucleoporins, chromatin remodeling factors and several novel proteins that were absent from splicing complexes assembled in vitro. These in vivo analyses bring the total number of factors associated with pre-mRNA to well over 300, and represent the most comprehensive analysis of the pre-mRNA processing machinery to date.
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- Yen-I G. Chen
- Graduate program in Microbiology, City of Hope Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University, Station #A4800, Austin, TX 78712 and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
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- Graduate program in Microbiology, City of Hope Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University, Station #A4800, Austin, TX 78712 and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
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- Graduate program in Microbiology, City of Hope Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University, Station #A4800, Austin, TX 78712 and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
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- Graduate program in Microbiology, City of Hope Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University, Station #A4800, Austin, TX 78712 and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
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- Graduate program in Microbiology, City of Hope Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University, Station #A4800, Austin, TX 78712 and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
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- Graduate program in Microbiology, City of Hope Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University, Station #A4800, Austin, TX 78712 and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
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