| Chapter title |
Simultaneous Detection of Metalloprotease Activities in Complex Biological Samples Using the PrAMA (Proteolytic Activity Matrix Assay) Method
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 18 |
| Book title |
Protein Terminal Profiling
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| Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6850-3_18 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6849-7, 978-1-4939-6850-3
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| Authors |
Catharina Conrad, Miles A. Miller, Jörg W. Bartsch, Uwe Schlomann, Douglas A. Lauffenburger |
| Editors |
Oliver Schilling |
| Abstract |
Proteolytic Activity Matrix Analysis (PrAMA) is a method for simultaneously determining the activities of specific Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) and A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinases (ADAMs) in complex biological samples. In mixtures of unknown proteases, PrAMA infers selective metalloproteinase activities by using a panel of moderately specific FRET-based polypeptide protease substrates in parallel, typically monitored by a plate-reader in a 96-well format. Fluorescence measurements are then quantitatively compared to a standard table of catalytic efficiencies measured from purified mixtures of individual metalloproteinases and FRET substrates. Computational inference of specific activities is performed with an easily used Matlab program, which is provided herein. Thus, we describe PrAMA as a combined experimental and mathematical approach to determine real-time metalloproteinase activities, which has previously been applied to live-cell cultures, cellular lysates, cell culture supernatants, and body fluids from patients. |
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