TY - JOUR
T1 - Membrane Protein Structure in Live Cells
T2 - Methodology for Studying Drug Interaction by Mass Spectrometry-Based Footprinting
AU - Shen, Guomin
AU - Li, Shuang
AU - Cui, Weidong
AU - Liu, Shixuan
AU - Yang, Yihu
AU - Gross, Michael
AU - Li, Weikai
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2018/1/23
Y1 - 2018/1/23
N2 - Mass spectrometry-based footprinting is an emerging approach for studying protein structure. Because integral membrane proteins are difficult targets for conventional structural biology, we recently developed a mass spectrometry (MS) footprinting method to probe membrane protein-drug interactions in live cells. This method can detect structural differences between apo and drug-bound states of membrane proteins, with the changes inferred from MS quantification of the cysteine modification pattern, generated by residue-specific chemical labeling. Here, we describe the experimental design, interpretation, advantages, and limitations of using cysteine footprinting by taking as an example the interaction of warfarin with vitamin K epoxide reductase, a human membrane protein. Compared with other structural methods, footprinting of proteins in live cells produces structural information for the near native state. Knowledge of cellular conformational states is a necessary complement to the high-resolution structures obtained from purified proteins in vitro. Thus, the MS footprinting method is broadly applicable in membrane protein biology. Future directions include probing flexible motions of membrane proteins and their interaction interface in live cells, which are often beyond the reach of conventional structural methods.
AB - Mass spectrometry-based footprinting is an emerging approach for studying protein structure. Because integral membrane proteins are difficult targets for conventional structural biology, we recently developed a mass spectrometry (MS) footprinting method to probe membrane protein-drug interactions in live cells. This method can detect structural differences between apo and drug-bound states of membrane proteins, with the changes inferred from MS quantification of the cysteine modification pattern, generated by residue-specific chemical labeling. Here, we describe the experimental design, interpretation, advantages, and limitations of using cysteine footprinting by taking as an example the interaction of warfarin with vitamin K epoxide reductase, a human membrane protein. Compared with other structural methods, footprinting of proteins in live cells produces structural information for the near native state. Knowledge of cellular conformational states is a necessary complement to the high-resolution structures obtained from purified proteins in vitro. Thus, the MS footprinting method is broadly applicable in membrane protein biology. Future directions include probing flexible motions of membrane proteins and their interaction interface in live cells, which are often beyond the reach of conventional structural methods.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00874
DO - 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00874
M3 - Article
C2 - 29192498
AN - SCOPUS:85041078554
SN - 0006-2960
VL - 57
SP - 286
EP - 294
JO - Biochemistry
JF - Biochemistry
IS - 3
ER -