Affinity Capture-Western

An interaction is inferred when a bait protein is affinity captured from cell extracts by either polyclonal antibody or epitope tag and the associated interaction partner identified by Western blot with a specific polyclonal antibody or second epitope tag. This category is also used if an interacting protein is visualized directly by dye stain or radioactivity. Note that this differs from any co-purification experiment involving affinity capture in that the co-purification experiment involves at least one extra purification step to get rid of potential contaminating proteins.

Publication

Protein phosphatase 4 is phosphorylated and inactivated by Cdk in response to spindle toxins and interacts with ?-tubulin.

Voss M, Campbell K, Saranzewa N, Campbell DG, Hastie CJ, Peggie MW, Martin-Granados C, Prescott AR, Cohen PT

Many pharmaceuticals used to treat cancer target the cell cycle or mitotic spindle dynamics, such as the anti-tumor drug, paclitaxel, which stabilizes microtubules. Here we show that, in cells arrested in mitosis with the spindle toxins, nocodazole, or paclitaxel, the endogenous protein phosphatase 4 (Ppp4) complex Ppp4c-R2-R3A is phosphorylated on its regulatory (R) subunits, and its activity is inhibited. The ... [more]

Cell Cycle Sep. 01, 2013; 12(17);2876-87 [Pubmed: 23966160]

Throughput

  • Low Throughput

Curated By

  • BioGRID