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

Motor protein-dependent transport of AMPA receptors into spines during long-term potentiation.

Correia SS, Bassani S, Brown TC, Lise MF, Backos DS, El-Husseini A, Passafaro M, Esteban JA

The regulated trafficking of neurotransmitter receptors at synapses is critical for synaptic function and plasticity. However, the molecular machinery that controls active transport of receptors into synapses is largely unknown. We found that, in rat hippocampus, the insertion of AMPA receptors (AMPARs) into spines during synaptic plasticity requires a specific motor protein, which we identified as myosin Va. We found ... [more]

Nat. Neurosci. Apr. 01, 2008; 11(4);457-66 [Pubmed: 18311135]

Throughput

  • Low Throughput

Curated By

  • BioGRID