AirID, a novel proximity biotinylation enzyme, for analysis of protein-protein interactions
Abstract
Proximity biotinylation based on Escherichia coli BirA enzymes like BioID (BirA*) and TurboID is a key technology for identifying proteins interacting with a target protein in a cell or organism. However, there have been some improvements in the enzymes for that purpose. Here, we demonstrate a novel BirA enzyme, AirID (ancestral BirA for proximity-dependent biotin identification), which was designed de novo using an ancestral enzyme reconstruction algorithm and metagenome data. AirID-fusion proteins like AirID-p53 or AirID-IκBα indicated biotinylation of MDM2 or RelA, respectively, in vitro and in cells, respectively. AirID-CRBN showed the pomalidomide-dependent biotinylation of IKZF1 and SALL4 in vitro. AirID-IκBα biotinylated the endogenous CUL4 and RBX1 in the CRL4CRBN complex based on the streptavidin pull-down assay. LC-MS/MS analysis of cells stably expressing AirID-IκBα showed top-level biotinylation of RelA proteins. These results indicate that AirID is a novel enzyme for analysing protein–protein interactions.
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Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP19am0101077)
- Tatsuya Sawasaki
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP16H06579)
- Tatsuya Sawasaki
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP16H04729)
- Tatsuya Sawasaki
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP19H03218)
- Tatsuya Sawasaki
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (18KK0229)
- Hidetaka Kosako
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (19H04966)
- Hidetaka Kosako
Takeda Science Foundation
- Tatsuya Sawasaki
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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© 2020, Kido et al.
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