Myers:ProteinComplexPurification

Overview
Purification of Proteins Complexes with in vivo chemical crosslinking

Materials
NETN (50 mM HEPES-HCl [pH 7.5], 150 mM NaCl, 0.5-1% Igepal, and 1%glycerol optional)

Protease and phosphatase inhibitors

DSP [MW 404.42] (Pierce): Prepare the DSP by adding X mg so that the final concentration of DSP is 1.5mM when added to NETN buffer. Prepare the DSP in Y volume of DMSO so that the total concentration of DMSO is 1% when added to the NETN buffer. For example add 0.606mg of DSP per 1ml of NETN prepared in 10ul of DMSO. For ease I suggest preparing 3.033mg in 50ul of DMSO and using 10ul per 1ml. DSP can be used down to 0.2mM final concentration. Be sure to reverse crosslinks by incubating 60°C for 30min in sample/loading buffer with 50mM DTT. Optional: DTTSP [MW 608.51] (Pierce) can be used instead of DSP. DTTSP is water soluble and is used at a lower concentration i.e 0.01-1mM. For ease in conversion 0.6mg/ml gives 1mM. I suggest using 0.1mM and this is added directly to lysis buffer.

1M Tris-HCl pH7.5

5M LiCl

Protein A/G suspension (Pierce) + immunoprecipitation proficient antibody

Flag-Resin (Sigma – I prefer EZ-view)

3X Flag peptide (Sigma) - Optional

HA-Resin (Sigma)

HA peptide (Sigma)- Optional

Cell Culture: Culture cells without allowing the cells to reach confluency greater than 95%. Typically 3-10 15cm plates are sufficient for abundant or ectopically expressed proteins. Harvest cells by trypsinization and washed by centrifugation @ 1000rpm. Wash the cells once in 1X PBS and flash freeze in liquid nitrogen.

Procedure
Lysis and in vivo crosslinking:
 * 1) Lysed cell pellets on ice in 20-100 pellet volumes of NETN-XL buffer (50 mM HEPES-HCl [pH 7.5], 150 mM NaCl, 1% Igepal, and 5%glycerol) containing protease inhibitors (1mM phenylmethyl-sulfonyl fluoride, 1ug/ml leupeptin, 1ug/ml pepstatin, and 1ug/ml aprotinin-200X stock solution), 1x MSRC phosphatase inhibitor cocktail (250X stock solution), 1X Sodium orthovandate (200X stock solution), and 1.5mM DSP (pierce) in 1% lysis volume DMSO (see Materials section).
 * 2) Sonicate cell lysate 2x with 15 sec pulses.
 * 3) Incubate the lysate for 25min on ice with occasional inversion.
 * 4) Quench crosslinking by adding Tris-HCl pH7.5 to final concentration of 50mM using 1M Tris-HCl pH7.5. Use 5ul per 1ml lysis buffer.
 * 5) Clear lysates by centrifugation at 8000 rpm for 10 minutes.
 * 6) Determine protein concentration and dilute the lysate to 1-5mg/ml.  Small scale immunoprecipitations use between 0.5 – 2mg/ml total protein. Large immunoprecipitations require ~10-fold increase in total protein.
 * 7) Aliquot ~190ug of lysate (-500ul) was and combined with LDS loading buffer and DTT (@ final concentration of 50 mM) and used as input.
 * 8) The remaining lysate (in 4.5mL) is transferred to clean tubes and incubated with antibody or with washed Flag or HA resin
 * 9) Antibody or resin is incubated with lysate at 4°C for 1.5hrs.
 * 10) The suspension is centrifuged @2000rpm (~0.5xg) for 2 min @4°C.
 * 11) Immunocomplexes are washed 3x with NETN (without crosslinker) buffer by inverting tube 15 times.
 * 12) For denaturing elution 2 resin volumes 2XLDS + 50mM DTT( DTT @ final concentration of 50mM) by heating for 20min at 60°C.
 * 13) Native elution is possible when using 1X Flag-tagged target protein by adding 300ug/ml 3X Flag peptide in 20mM Tris-HCl pH7.5 and 750mM LiCl.  For 400ul of 3X Flag peptide solution use 8ul of 1M TrisHCl, 60ul of 5M LiCl, 25ul of 3X Flag peptide ( 5 mg/ml) and 307ul of Ultrapure H2O.  This elution is in done twice and precipitated using TCA.  I usually use 75-100ul of resin and elute using 200ul of Flag peptide with each elution for a total of 400ul.
 * 14) TCA precipitation is done by adding 1/5 volume of 100% TCA (100ul of 100% TCA to 400ul of elution).
 * 15) Incubate the TCA precipitation overnight on ice.
 * 16) Centrifuge max speed for 10min and remove all of the supernatant.
 * 17) Centrifuge again for 2min and remove all supernatant.
 * 18) Resuspend the pellet in 25ul of 200mM Tris-HCl pH8.5 and add 25ul of 2X LDS containing 100mM DTT.
 * 19) Incubate this 20min at 60°C.
 * 20) * always keep lysates on ice and do not introduce bubbles during sample preparation as the surface tension can denature proteins.

Contact
--Jeremy S. Myers 11:33, 10 April 2008 (EDT) or instead, discuss this protocol.
 * Jeremy Myers

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