Chapter title |
Determining the Localization of Carbohydrate Active Enzymes Within Gram-Negative Bacteria
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Chapter number | 15 |
Book title |
Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, April 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6899-2_15 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6898-5, 978-1-4939-6899-2
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Authors |
Richard McLean, G. Douglas Inglis, Steven C. Mosimann, Richard R. E. Uwiera, D. Wade Abbott |
Editors |
D. Wade Abbott, Alicia Lammerts van Bueren |
Abstract |
Investigating the subcellular location of secreted proteins is valuable for illuminating their biological function. Although several bioinformatics programs currently exist to predict the destination of a trafficked protein using its signal peptide sequence, these programs have limited accuracy and often require experimental validation. Here, we present a systematic method to fractionate gram-negative cells and characterize the subcellular localization of secreted carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes). This method involves four parallel approaches that reveal the relative abundance of protein within the cytoplasm, periplasm, outer membrane, and extracellular environment. Cytoplasmic and periplasmic proteins are fractionated by lysis and osmotic shock, respectively. Outer membrane bound proteins are determined by comparing cells before and after exoproteolytic digestion. Extracellularly secreted proteins are collected from the media and concentrated. These four different fractionations can then be probed for the presence and quantity of target proteins using immunochemical methods such as Western blots and ELISAs, or enzyme activity assays. |
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