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Wang Y, Xue P, Cao M, Yu T, Lane ST, Zhao H. Directed Evolution: Methodologies and Applications. Chem Rev 2021; 121:12384-12444. [PMID: 34297541 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 67.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Directed evolution aims to expedite the natural evolution process of biological molecules and systems in a test tube through iterative rounds of gene diversifications and library screening/selection. It has become one of the most powerful and widespread tools for engineering improved or novel functions in proteins, metabolic pathways, and even whole genomes. This review describes the commonly used gene diversification strategies, screening/selection methods, and recently developed continuous evolution strategies for directed evolution. Moreover, we highlight some representative applications of directed evolution in engineering nucleic acids, proteins, pathways, genetic circuits, viruses, and whole cells. Finally, we discuss the challenges and future perspectives in directed evolution.
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- Yajie Wang
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Cobbert JD, DeMott C, Majumder S, Smith EA, Reverdatto S, Burz DS, McDonough KA, Shekhtman A. Caught in action: selecting peptide aptamers against intrinsically disordered proteins in live cells. Sci Rep 2015; 5:9402. [PMID: 25801767 PMCID: PMC4371151 DOI: 10.1038/srep09402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2014] [Accepted: 03/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or unstructured segments within proteins play an important role in cellular physiology and pathology. Low cellular concentration, multiple binding partners, frequent post-translational modifications and the presence of multiple conformations make it difficult to characterize IDP interactions in intact cells. We used peptide aptamers selected by using the yeast-two-hybrid scheme and in-cell NMR to identify high affinity binders to transiently structured IDP and unstructured segments at atomic resolution. Since both the selection and characterization of peptide aptamers take place inside the cell, only physiologically relevant conformations of IDPs are targeted. The method is validated by using peptide aptamers selected against the prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein, Pup, of the mycobacterium proteasome. The selected aptamers bind to distinct sites on Pup and have vastly different effects on rescuing mycobacterial proteasome substrate and on the survival of the Bacille-Calmette-Guèrin, BCG, strain of M. bovis. This technology can be applied to study the elusive action of IDPs under near physiological conditions.
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- Wadsworth Center, NY State Department of Health, Albany, NY
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, Albany, NY
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Thibaut J, Mérieux Y, Rigal D, Gillet G. A novel assay for the detection of anti-human platelet antigen antibodies (HPA-1a) based on peptide aptamer technology. Haematologica 2011; 97:696-704. [PMID: 22133781 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2011.051276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia is mostly due to the presence of maternal antibodies against the fetal platelet antigen HPA-1a on the platelet integrin GPIIb-IIIa. Accurate detection of anti-HPA-1a antibodies in the mother is, therefore, critical. Current diagnostic assays rely on the availability of pools of human platelets that vary according to donors and blood centers. There is still no satisfactory standardization of these assays. DESIGN AND METHODS Peptide aptamer was used to detect and identify HPA-1a-specific antibodies in human serum that do not require human platelets. A peptide aptamer library was screened using an anti-HPA-1a human monoclonal antibody as a bait to isolate an aptamer that mimics the human platelet antigen HPA-1a. RESULTS This is the first report in platelet immunology of the use of a peptide aptamer for diagnostic purposes. This assay gives better results than the MAIPA currently in use, detecting around 90% of the expected alloantibodies. CONCLUSIONS This assay could help define a standard for the quantitation of anti-HPA antibodies. This report also demonstrates that peptide aptamers can potentially detect a variety of biomarkers in body fluids; this is of particular interest for diagnostic purposes.
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- Julien Thibaut
- Université de Lyon, IBCP, UMR 5086 CNRS-Université Lyon, Lyon, France
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Barbati S, Grenga L, Luzi G, Paolozzi L, Ghelardini P. Prokaryotic division interactome: setup of an assay for protein–protein interaction mutant selection. Res Microbiol 2010; 161:118-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2010.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2009] [Revised: 12/16/2009] [Accepted: 01/04/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Characterization and binding affinities of SmLANP: a new Schistosoma mansoni member of the ANP32 family of regulatory proteins. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2009; 165:95-102. [PMID: 19428656 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2008] [Revised: 01/15/2009] [Accepted: 01/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Members of the leucine-rich repeat protein family are involved in diverse functions including protein phosphatase 2-inhibition, cell cycle regulation, gene regulation and signalling pathways. A novel Schistosoma mansoni gene, called SmLANP, presenting homology to various genes coding for proteins that belong to the super family of leucine-rich repeat proteins, was characterized here. SmLANP was 1184bp in length as determined from cDNA and genomic sequences and encoded a 296 amino acid open reading frame that spanning from 6 to 894bp. The predicted amino acid sequence had a calculated molecular weight of 32kDa. Analysis of the predicted sequence indicated the presence of 3 leucine-rich domains (LRR) located in the N-terminal region and an aspartic acid rich region in the C-terminal end. SmLANP transcript is expressed in all stages of the S. mansoni life cycle analyzed, exhibiting the highest expression level in males. The SmLANP protein was expressed in a GST expression system and antibodies raised in mice against the recombinant protein. By immunolocalization assay, using adult worms, it was shown that the protein is mainly present in the cell nucleus through the whole body and strongly expressed along the tegument cell body nuclei of adult worms. As members of this family are usually involved in protein-protein interaction, a yeast two hybrid assay was conducted to identify putative binding partners for SmLANP. Thirty-six possible partners were identified, and a protein ATP synthase subunit alpha was confirmed by pull down assays, as a binding partner of the SmLANP protein.
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Park K, Yi SY, Lee CS, Kim KE, Pai HS, Seol DW, Chung BH, Kim M. A split enhanced green fluorescent protein-based reporter in yeast two-hybrid system. Protein J 2007; 26:107-16. [PMID: 17203394 DOI: 10.1007/s10930-006-9051-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We have developed a novel reporter system involving a yeast two-hybrid assay, which utilizes the reconstitution of the split EGFP reporter in order to characterize the relevant protein-protein interactions. To our knowledge, this study represents the first application of the split EGFP system as a read-out in a yeast two-hybrid assay. In comparison with the existing two-hybrid system, the bait and prey vectors were improved with regard to the reporter and the replication control element. As a result, the reconstituted EGFP has been observed to evidence a restored fluorescence upon protein-protein interactions in yeast, thereby allowing for the characterization of its interactor. The use of a split EGFP reporter has some salient advantages. Firstly, no substrates are required for the production of fluorescence. Secondly, low copy number plasmids may help to solve the protein toxicity problem, via the reduction of expression. Thirdly, this technique may prove useful in overcoming the autoactivation problem, due to the fact that the read-out of the yeast two-hybrid system is transcription-independent. Collectively, our results showed that the split EGFP reporter system might potentially be applied in yeast two-hybrid assays for the high-throughput screening of protein-protein interactions, with a simple and direct fluorescent read-out.
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- Kyoungsook Park
- BioNanotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Kunz C, Borghouts C, Buerger C, Groner B. Peptide Aptamers with Binding Specificity for the Intracellular Domain of the ErbB2 Receptor Interfere with AKT Signaling and Sensitize Breast Cancer Cells to Taxol. Mol Cancer Res 2006; 4:983-98. [PMID: 17189388 DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-06-0046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The ErbB2 receptor tyrosine kinase is overexpressed in approximately 30% of breast tumor cases and its overexpression correlates with an unfavorable prognosis. A major contributor for this course of the disease is the insensitivity of these tumors toward chemotherapy. Monoclonal antibodies, inhibiting the ligand-induced activation of the receptor and tyrosine kinase inhibitors acting on the intrinsic enzymatic activity of the intracellular domain, have been developed as targeted drugs. Both have been shown to be beneficial for breast cancer patients. We targeted a third aspect of receptor function: its association with intracellular signaling components. For this purpose, we selected peptide aptamers, which specifically interact with defined domains of the intracellular part of the receptor. The peptide aptamers were selected from a random peptide library using a yeast two-hybrid system with the intracellular tyrosine kinase domain of ErbB2 as a bait construct. The peptide aptamer AII-7 interacts with high specificity with the ErbB2 receptor in vitro and in vivo. The aptamers colocalized with the intracellular domain of ErbB2 within cells. We investigated the functional consequences of the aptamer interaction with the ErbB2 receptor within tumor cells. The aptamer sequences were either expressed intracellularly or introduced into the cells as recombinant aptamer proteins. The phosphorylation of p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase was nearly unaffected and the activation of signal transducers and activators of transcription-3 was only modestly reduced. In contrast, they strongly inhibited the induction of AKT kinase in MCF7 breast cancer cells treated with heregulin, whereas AKT activation downstream of insulin-like growth factor I or epidermal growth factor receptor was not or only slightly affected. High AKT activity is responsible for the enhanced resistance of ErbB2-overexpressing cancer cells toward chemotherapeutic agents. Peptide aptamer interference with AKT activation resulted in the restoration of regular sensitivity of breast cancer cells toward Taxol.
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- Christian Kunz
- Georg-Speyer-Haus, Institute for Biomedical Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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During the past two decades, our understanding of oncogenesis has advanced considerably and many new signalling pathways have been identified. Differences in signalling events that distinguish normal cells from tumour cells provide new targets for the development of anticancer agents. Peptide aptamers are small peptide sequences that have been selected to recognise a predetermined target protein domain and are potentially able to interfere with its function. They represent useful molecules for manipulating protein function in vivo. The isolation and use of specific peptide aptamers as inhibitors of individual signalling components, essential in cancer development and progression, provides a new challenge for drug development. Although peptides make up only a small fraction of current therapeutics, their potential is being enhanced by new developments affecting their modification, stability, delivery and their successful application in preclinical settings. This review summarises the methods that can be used for the isolation and delivery of peptide aptamers, as well as the important achievements that have been made using such peptide aptamers in different systems. The applicability of peptide aptamers as novel cancer therapeutics will be discussed.
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- Corina Borghouts
- Georg-Speyer-Haus Institute for Biomedical Research, Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse 42-44, D-60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Yang QW, Mou L, Lv FL, Zhu PF, Wang ZG, Jiang JX, Wang JZ. Novel TLR4-antagonizing peptides inhibit LPS-induced release of inflammatory mediators by monocytes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 329:846-54. [PMID: 15752733 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.01.162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2005] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) has become a new target for combating Gram-negative bacterium-induced sepsis. In this study, we screened peptides that can interact with TLR4 from a random 16-peptide library using yeast two-hybrid system and performed functional identification for the obtained peptides. We got two positive clones out of 1.28x10(7) transformants. The peptides were sequenced and synthesized. Protein sequence comparison confirmed that the two peptides had no homologous proteins. The two peptides were found to significantly inhibit LPS-induced NF-kappaB activation in HEK-293 cells that were transfected with TLR4 cDNA, LPS-induced IkappaBalpha (IkappaB alpha) phosphorylation and NF-kappaB activation in monocytes, and release of IL-1, IL-6, and TNF-alpha by monocytes. We further confirmed that the No. 9 peptide could bind to TLR4 extracellular domain, but the No. 24 peptide could not, suggesting that two novel peptides were identified as the antagonists of TLR4, which significantly inhibited the effects of endotoxin in vitro. The No. 9 peptide may function through binding to TLR4 extracellular domain. Our findings suggest a promising countermeasure against Gram-negative bacterium-induced sepsis.
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- Qing-Wu Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burn, and Combined Wound, Research Institute of Surgery and Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China.
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Causier B. Studying the interactome with the yeast two-hybrid system and mass spectrometry. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2004; 23:350-367. [PMID: 15264234 DOI: 10.1002/mas.10080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Protein interactions are crucial to the life of a cell. The analysis of such interactions is allowing biologists to determine the function of uncharacterized proteins and the genes that encode them. The yeast two-hybrid system has become one of the most popular and powerful tools to study protein-protein interactions. With the advent of proteomics, the two-hybrid system has found a niche in interactome mapping. However, it is clear that only by combining two-hybrid data with that from complementary approaches such as mass spectrometry (MS) can the interactome be analyzed in full. This review introduces the yeast two-hybrid system to those unfamiliar with the technique, and discusses how it can be used in combination with MS to unravel the network of protein interactions that occur in a cell.
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- Barry Causier
- School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
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Kaihara A, Kawai Y, Sato M, Ozawa T, Umezawa Y. Locating a Protein−Protein Interaction in Living Cells via SplitRenillaLuciferase Complementation. Anal Chem 2003; 75:4176-81. [PMID: 14632132 DOI: 10.1021/ac0300800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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For spatial and quantitative kinetic analysis of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in living mammalian cells, a method was developed in which PPI-induced complementation of split Renilla luciferase triggers spontaneous emission of luminescence using a cell membrane permeable substrate, coelenterazine. This split Renilla luciferase complementation readout was shown to work for locating a PPI between the tyrosine-phosphorylated peptide (Y941) of IRS-1 and the SH2 domain of PI3K among insulin signaling pathways in living Chinese hamster ovary cells overexpressing human insulin receptors (CHO-HIR). It was thereby found that the insulin-stimulated interaction occurred near the plasma membrane in the cytosol.
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- Asami Kaihara
- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of TokyoHongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 113-0033
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Rudolph C, Schreier PH, Uhrig JF. Peptide-mediated broad-spectrum plant resistance to tospoviruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:4429-34. [PMID: 12682295 PMCID: PMC153572 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0730832100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2002] [Accepted: 02/11/2003] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Plant viruses have a significant impact on agronomic losses worldwide. A new strategy for engineering virus-resistant plants by transgenic expression of a dominant interfering peptide is presented here. This peptide of 29 aa strongly interacts with the nucleocapsid proteins (N) of different tospoviruses. Transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana lines expressing the peptide fused to a carrier protein were challenged with five different tospoviruses that have a nucleocapsid protein interacting with the peptide. In the transgenic plants, strong resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus, tomato chlorotic spot virus, groundnut ring spot virus, and chrysanthemum stem necrosis virus was observed. This therefore demonstrates the feasibility of using peptide "aptamers" as an in vivo tool to control viral infection in higher plants.
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- Christoph Rudolph
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany
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Koide A, Abbatiello S, Rothgery L, Koide S. Probing protein conformational changes in living cells by using designer binding proteins: application to the estrogen receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:1253-8. [PMID: 11818562 PMCID: PMC122176 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.032665299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A challenge in understanding the mechanism of protein function in biology is to establish the correlation between functional form in the intracellular environment and high-resolution structures obtained with in vitro techniques. Here we present a strategy to probe conformational changes of proteins inside cells. Our method involves: (i) engineering binding proteins to different conformations of a target protein, and (ii) using them to sense changes in the surface property of the target in cells. We probed ligand-induced conformational changes of the estrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha) ligand-binding domain (LBD). By using yeast two-hybrid techniques, we first performed combinatorial library screening of "monobodies" (small antibody mimics using the scaffold of a fibronectin type III domain) for clones that bind to ER alpha and then characterized their interactions with ER alpha in the nucleus, the native environment of ER alpha, in the presence of various ligands. A library using a highly flexible loop yielded monobodies that specifically recognize a particular ligand complex of ER alpha, and the pattern of monobody specificity was consistent with the structural differences found in known crystal structures of ER alpha-LBD. A more restrained loop library yielded clones that bind both agonist- and antagonist-bound ER alpha. Furthermore, we found that a deletion of the ER alpha F domain that is C-terminally adjacent to the LBD increased the crossreactivity of monobodies to the apo-ER alpha-LBD, suggesting a dynamic nature of the ER alpha-LBD conformation and a role of the F domain in restraining the LBD in an inactive conformation.
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- Akiko Koide
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Suzuki H, Fukunishi Y, Kagawa I, Saito R, Oda H, Endo T, Kondo S, Bono H, Okazaki Y, Hayashizaki Y. Protein-protein interaction panel using mouse full-length cDNAs. Genome Res 2001; 11:1758-65. [PMID: 11591653 PMCID: PMC311163 DOI: 10.1101/gr.180101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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We have developed a novel assay system for systematic analysis of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) that is characteristic of a PCR-mediated rapid sample preparation and a high-throughput assay system based on the mammalian two-hybrid method. Using gene-specific primers, we successfully constructed the assay samples by two rounds of PCR with up to 3.6 kb from the first-round PCR fragments. In the assay system, we designed all the steps to be performed by adding only samples, reagents, and cells into 384-well assay plates using two types of semiautomatic multiple dispensers. The system enabled us examine more than 20,000 assay wells per day. We detected 145 interactions in our pilot study using 3500 samples derived from mouse full-length enriched cDNAs. Analysis of the interaction data showed both several significant interaction clusters and predicted functions of a few uncharacterized proteins. In combination with our comprehensive mouse full-length cDNA clone bank covering a large part of the whole genes, our high-throughput assay system will discover many interactions to facilitate understanding of the function of uncharacterized proteins and the molecular mechanism of crucial biological processes, and also enable completion of a rough draft of the entire PPI panel in certain cell types or tissues of mouse within a short time.
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- H Suzuki
- Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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Natural enzymes have arisen over millions of years by the gradual process of Darwinian evolution. The fundamental steps of evolution-mutation, selection, and amplification-can also be exploited in the laboratory to create and characterize protein catalysts on a human timescale. In vivo genetic selection strategies enable the exhaustive analysis of protein libraries with 10(10) different members, and even larger ensembles can be studied with in vitro methods. Evolutionary approaches can consequently yield statistically meaningful insight into the complex and often subtle interactions that influence protein folding, structure, and catalytic mechanism. Such methods are also being used increasingly as an adjunct to design, thus providing access to novel proteins with tailored catalytic activities and selectivities.
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- Sean V. Taylor
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie ETH Zürich 8093 Zurich (Switzerland)
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Abedi M, Caponigro G, Shen J, Hansen S, Sandrock T, Kamb A. Transcriptional transactivation by selected short random peptides attached to lexA-GFP fusion proteins. BMC Mol Biol 2001; 2:10. [PMID: 11580863 PMCID: PMC56998 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-2-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2001] [Accepted: 08/31/2001] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Transcriptional transactivation is a process with remarkable tolerance for sequence diversity and structural geometry. In studies of the features that constitute transactivating functions, acidity has remained one of the most common characteristics observed among native activation domains and activator peptides. RESULTS We performed a deliberate search of random peptide libraries for peptides capable of conferring transcriptional transactivation on the lexA DNA binding domain. Two libraries, one composed of C-terminal fusions, the other of peptide insertions within the green fluorescent protein structure, were used. We show that (i) peptide sequences other than C-terminal fusions can confer transactivation; (ii) though acidic activator peptides are more common, charge neutral and basic peptides can function as activators; and (iii) peptides as short as 11 amino acids behave in a modular fashion. CONCLUSIONS These results support the recruitment model of transcriptional activation and, combined with other studies, suggest the possibility of using activator peptides in a variety of applications, including drug development work.
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- Majid Abedi
- Arcaris, Inc. (current name: Deltagen Proteomics, Inc.), 615 Arapeen Drive Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Arcaris, Inc. (current name: Deltagen Proteomics, Inc.), 615 Arapeen Drive Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Arcaris, Inc. (current name: Deltagen Proteomics, Inc.), 615 Arapeen Drive Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Arcaris, Inc. (current name: Deltagen Proteomics, Inc.), 615 Arapeen Drive Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Arcaris, Inc. (current name: Deltagen Proteomics, Inc.), 615 Arapeen Drive Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Arcaris, Inc. (current name: Deltagen Proteomics, Inc.), 615 Arapeen Drive Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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Hoppe-Seyler F, Crnkovic-Mertens I, Denk C, Fitscher BA, Klevenz B, Tomai E, Butz K. Peptide aptamers: new tools to study protein interactions. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2001; 78:105-11. [PMID: 11566434 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-0760(01)00085-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The ability to specifically interfere with the function of proteins of pathological significance has been a goal for molecular medicine for many years. Peptide aptamers comprise a new class of molecules, with a peptide moiety of randomized sequence, which are selected for their ability to bind to a given target protein under intracellular conditions. They have the potential to inhibit the biochemical activities of a target protein, can delineate the interactions of the target protein in regulatory networks, and identify novel therapeutic targets. Peptide aptamers represent a new basis for drug design and protein therapy, with implications for basic and applied research, for a broad variety of different types of diseases.
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- F Hoppe-Seyler
- Angewandte Tumorvirologie, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 242, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Verpoorte R, van der Heijden R, Memelink J. Engineering the plant cell factory for secondary metabolite production. Transgenic Res 2001; 9:323-43; discussion 321. [PMID: 11131010 DOI: 10.1023/a:1008966404981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Plant secondary metabolism is very important for traits such as flower color, flavor of food, and resistance against pests and diseases. Moreover, it is the source of many fine chemicals such as drugs, dyes, flavors, and fragrances. It is thus of interest to be able to engineer the secondary metabolite production of the plant cell factory, e.g. to produce more of a fine chemical, to produce less of a toxic compound, or even to make new compounds, Engineering of plant secondary metabolism is feasible nowadays, but it requires knowledge of the biosynthetic pathways involved. To increase secondary metabolite production different strategies can be followed, such as overcoming rate limiting steps, reducing flux through competitive pathways, reducing catabolism and overexpression of regulatory genes. For this purpose genes of plant origin can be overexpressed, but also microbial genes have been used successfully. Overexpression of plant genes in microorganisms is another approach, which might be of interest for bioconversion of readily available precursors into valuable fine chemicals. Several examples will be given to illustrate these various approaches. The constraints of metabolic engineering of the plant cell factory will also be discussed. Our limited knowledge of secondary metabolite pathways and the genes involved is one of the main bottlenecks.
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- R Verpoorte
- Division of Pharmacognosy, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
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Nauenburg S, Zwerschke W, Jansen-Durr P. Induction of apoptosis in cervical carcinoma cells by peptide aptamers that bind to the HPV-16 E7 oncoprotein. FASEB J 2001; 15:592-4. [PMID: 11259377 DOI: 10.1096/fj.00-0604fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Human papillomaviruses (HPV) of the high-risk type are causally involved in human tumors, in particular cervical carcinoma. Expression of the viral oncogenes E6 and E7 is maintained in HPV-positive tumors, and it was shown that E6 and E7 of HPV-16 can immortalize human keratinocytes, the natural host cells of the virus. Expression of the viral genes is also required for maintenance of the transformed phenotype. The oncogenic activity of the E6 and E7 oncoproteins is mediated by their physical and functional interaction with cellular regulatory proteins. To knock out the function of the E7 protein in living cells, we have developed peptide aptamers with high specific binding activity for the E7 protein of HPV-16. We show here that E7-binding peptide aptamers induce programmed cell death (apoptosis) in E7-expressing cells, whereas E7-negative cells are not affected. Furthermore, E7-binding peptide aptamers induce apoptosis in HPV-16-positive tumor cells derived from cervical carcinoma. The data suggest that E7-binding peptide aptamers may be useful tools to specifically eliminate HPV-positive tumors.
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- S Nauenburg
- Institut f. Biomedizinische Alternsforschung der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Rennweg 10, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Genomics can be defined as a set of related technologies that are focused on the discovery of genes implicated in human disease. Although many of the estimated 100,000 genes in the human genome have been at least partially identified by nucleotide sequence, elucidation of biological function has been achieved for only a small percentage of these. An even smaller percentage of genes discovered by these methodologies have become valid drug targets. This review discusses the various genomics technologies and their likelihood of yielding therapeutic drugs. Emerging advances in microarray "chip" technology have allowed the parallel analysis of gene expression patterns for thousands of genes simultaneously. Sequence information derived from the genomes of many individuals is leading to the rapid discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs. Detection of these human polymorphisms will fuel the discipline of pharmacogenomics, resulting in an increase in the success of clinical trials, the rescue of drugs that have previously failed in clinical trials because of adverse reactions from patient subpopulations, and ultimately, in the development of more personalized drug therapies. The impending identification of all human genes will signal the end of the structural genomics phase and usher in the function genomics phase. Technologies have already begun to move toward high-throughput elucidation of gene relationships, interactions and, it is hoped, toward their functions.
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Hubsman M, Yudkovsky G, Aronheim A. A novel approach for the identification of protein-protein interaction with integral membrane proteins. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:E18. [PMID: 11160938 PMCID: PMC29625 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.4.e18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interaction plays a major role in all biological processes. The currently available genetic methods such as the two-hybrid system and the protein recruitment system are relatively limited in their ability to identify interactions with integral membrane proteins. Here we describe the development of a reverse Ras recruitment system (reverse RRS), in which the bait used encodes a membrane protein. The bait is expressed in its natural environment, the membrane, whereas the protein partner (the prey) is fused to a cytoplasmic Ras mutant. Protein-protein interaction between the proteins encoded by the prey and the bait results in Ras membrane translocation and activation of a viability pathway in yeast. We devised the expression of the bait and prey proteins under the control of dual distinct inducible promoters, thus enabling a rapid selection of transformants in which growth is attributed solely to specific protein-protein interaction. The reverse RRS approach greatly extends the usefulness of the protein recruitment systems and the use of integral membrane proteins as baits. The system serves as an attractive approach to explore novel protein-protein interactions with high specificity and selectivity, where other methods fail.
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- M Hubsman
- Department of Molecular Genetics and the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences and the B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, PO Box 9649, Bat-Galim, Haifa 31096, Israel
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The seminal observations that (a) chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains accumulate less drug than more sensitive parasites, and (b) chloroquine resistance could be modulated in vitro by the classic multidrug-resistance (MDR) modulator verapamil, suggested not only that parasite resistance to multiple drugs may be similar to the MDR phenotype described in mammalian cancer cells, but that homologous proteins may be involved. These findings prompted search for MDR-like genes in the parasite. To date, three full-length ABC transporter genes have been isolated from P. falciparum: two P-glycoprotein-like homologues, pfmdr1 and pfmdr2, and a homologue of the yeast GCN20 gene, pfgcn20.
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- S A Peel
- Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Pathogenesis, Division of Retrovirology Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Rockville, MD, USA.
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Chemical genetics is the study of gene-product function in a cellular or organismal context using exogenous ligands. In this approach, small molecules that bind directly to proteins are used to alter protein function, enabling a kinetic analysis of the in vivo consequences of these changes. Recent advances have strongly enhanced the power of exogenous ligands such that they can resemble genetic mutations in terms of their general applicability and target specificity. The growing sophistication of this approach raises the possibility of its application to any biological process.
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- B R Stockwell
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
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van Helden J, Naim A, Mancuso R, Eldridge M, Wernisch L, Gilbert D, Wodak SJ. Representing and analysing molecular and cellular function using the computer. Biol Chem 2000; 381:921-35. [PMID: 11076023 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2000.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Determining the biological function of a myriad of genes, and understanding how they interact to yield a living cell, is the major challenge of the post genome-sequencing era. The complexity of biological systems is such that this cannot be envisaged without the help of powerful computer systems capable of representing and analysing the intricate networks of physical and functional interactions between the different cellular components. In this review we try to provide the reader with an appreciation of where we stand in this regard. We discuss some of the inherent problems in describing the different facets of biological function, give an overview of how information on function is currently represented in the major biological databases, and describe different systems for organising and categorising the functions of gene products. In a second part, we present a new general data model, currently under development, which describes information on molecular function and cellular processes in a rigorous manner. The model is capable of representing a large variety of biochemical processes, including metabolic pathways, regulation of gene expression and signal transduction. It also incorporates taxonomies for categorising molecular entities, interactions and processes, and it offers means of viewing the information at different levels of resolution, and dealing with incomplete knowledge. The data model has been implemented in the database on protein function and cellular processes 'aMAZE' (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pfbp/), which presently covers metabolic pathways and their regulation. Several tools for querying, displaying, and performing analyses on such pathways are briefly described in order to illustrate the practical applications enabled by the model.
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- J van Helden
- European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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The detected phenotypes in many diseases are caused from dysfunction in protein-protein, protein-DNA and receptor-ligand interactions. Therefore, determination of these molecular interactions followed by designing or screening the compounds to target these interactions provides a significant challenge in drug development. This review aims to highlight the yeast two-hybrid system in determination of protein-protein interactions and its possible outcomes in pharmaceutical research. The variations of the basic methodology as one- and three-hybrid systems are also discussed in relation to their potential pharmaceutical applications.
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- Z Topcu
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
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Shioda T, Andriole S, Yahata T, Isselbacher KJ. A green fluorescent protein-reporter mammalian two-hybrid system with extrachromosomal maintenance of a prey expression plasmid: application to interaction screening. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:5220-4. [PMID: 10805780 PMCID: PMC25809 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.10.5220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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An improved mammalian two-hybrid system designed for interaction trap screening is described in this paper. CV-1/EBNA-1 monkey kidney epithelial cells expressing Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA-1) were stably transfected with a reporter plasmid for GAL4-dependent expression of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). A resulting clone, GB133, expressed GFP strongly when transfected transiently with transcriptional activators fused to GAL4 DNA-binding domain with minimal background GFP expression. GB133 cells maintained plasmids containing the OriP Epstein-Barr virus replication origin that directs replication of plasmids in mammalian cells in the presence of the EBNA-1 protein. GB133 cells transfected stably with a model bait expressed GFP when further transfected transiently with an expression plasmid for a known positive prey. When the bait-expressing GB133 cells were transfected transiently with an OriP-containing expression plasmid for the positive prey together with excess amounts of empty vector, cells that received the positive prey were readily identified by green fluorescence in cell culture and eventually formed green fluorescent microcolonies, because the prey plasmid was maintained by the EBNA-1/Ori-P system. The green fluorescent microcolonies were harvested directly from the culture dishes under a fluorescence microscope, and total DNA was then prepared. Prey-encoding cDNA was recovered by PCR using primers annealing to the vector sequences flanking the insert-cloning site. This system should be useful in mammalian cells for efficient screening of cDNA libraries by two-hybrid interaction.
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- T Shioda
- Department of Tumor Biology, The Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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Loferer I, Jacobi I, Posch I, Gauss I, Meier-Ewert I, Seizinger I. Integrated bacterial genomics for the discovery of novel antimicrobials. Drug Discov Today 2000; 5:107-114. [PMID: 10675884 DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6446(99)01455-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Sequencing of bacterial genomes has been progressing with breathtaking speed. Currently, the genomes of 23 bacterial species are sequenced, with approximately 40 more sequencing projects in progress. Industrial research is now facing the challenge of translating this information efficiently into drug discovery. This review will summarize the impact of bacterial genomics, bioinformatics and second-generation genomic technologies on target identification, assay development, lead optimization and compound characterization.
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- I Loferer
- Genome Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Fraunhoferstrasse 20, D-82152 Martinsried/Munich, Germany
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The design and use of combinatorial protein libraries has become a fast moving field in molecular biology. Different experimental systems supporting various selection schemes are now available. The latest breakthroughs include evolutionary experiments to improve existing binding surfaces, selections of homodimerizing peptides, the use of peptide aptamers to disrupt protein interactions inside living cells, and functional selections of aptamers to probe regulatory networks.
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- P Colas
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, 69364, France.
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Cereghino GP, Cregg JM. Applications of yeast in biotechnology: protein production and genetic analysis. Curr Opin Biotechnol 1999; 10:422-7. [PMID: 10508632 DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(99)00004-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Improvements in yeast expression systems, coupled with the development of yeast surface display and refinements in two-hybrid methodology, are expanding the role of yeasts in the process of understanding and engineering eukaryotic proteins.
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- G P Cereghino
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology 20 000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon, 7006-8921, USA.
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- B Steipe
- Genzentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
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The promise of genomics has dramatically altered the way drug discovery is now viewed. Overshadowed by the exuberance for genomics are the observations that most disease processes and treatments are manifest at the protein level and that there may not be a good correlation between gene expression and protein expression. An alternative and complementary approach to genomics is protein expression profiling - proteomics. The authors describe the technology, its advantages and some applications.
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