Abstract

Protein-correlation-profiling (PCP), in combination with quantitative proteomics, has emerged as a high-throughput method for the rapid identification of dynamic protein complexes in native conditions. While PCP has been successfully applied to soluble proteomes, characterization of the membrane interactome has lagged, partly due to the necessary use of detergents to maintain protein solubility. Here, we apply the peptidisc, a 'one-size fits all' membrane mimetic, for the capture of the Escherichia coli cell envelope proteome and its high-resolution fractionation in the absence of detergent. Analysis of the SILAC-labeled peptidisc library via PCP allows generation of over 4900 possible binary interactions out of >700,000 random associations. Using well-characterized membrane protein systems such as the SecY translocon, the Bam complex and the MetNI transporter, we demonstrate that our dataset is a useful resource for identifying transient and surprisingly novel protein interactions, some of them with profound biological implications, and many of them largely undetected by standard detergent-based purification. The peptidisc workflow applied to the proteomic field is a promising novel approach to characterize membrane protein interactions under native expression conditions and without genetic manipulation.

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  1. Michael Luke Carlson

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  2. R Greg Stacey

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  3. John William Young

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  4. Irvinder Singh Wason

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  5. Zhiyu Zhao

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  6. David G Rattray

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  7. Nichollas Scott

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  8. Craig H Kerr

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  9. Mohan Babu

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Regina, Regina, Canada
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  10. Leonard J Foster

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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  11. Franck Van Hoa Duong

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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    fduong@mail.ubc.ca
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    Franck Van Hoa Duong, has a website which sells the peptide used in this study.
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Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

  • Franck Van Hoa Duong

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Nir Ben-Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Publication history

  1. Received: March 7, 2019
  2. Accepted: July 30, 2019
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: July 31, 2019 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: August 16, 2019 (version 2)

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© 2019, Carlson et al.

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  1. Michael Luke Carlson
  2. R Greg Stacey
  3. John William Young
  4. Irvinder Singh Wason
  5. Zhiyu Zhao
  6. David G Rattray
  7. Nichollas Scott
  8. Craig H Kerr
  9. Mohan Babu
  10. Leonard J Foster
  11. Franck Van Hoa Duong
(2019)
Profiling the E. coli membrane interactome captured in peptidisc libraries
eLife 8:e46615.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.46615

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