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

Suppression of protein aggregation by chaperone modification of high molecular weight complexes.

Labbadia J, Novoselov SS, Bett JS, Weiss A, Paganetti P, Bates GP, Cheetham ME

Protein misfolding and aggregation are associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease. The cellular machinery for maintaining proteostasis includes molecular chaperones that facilitate protein folding and reduce proteotoxicity. Increasing the protein folding capacity of cells through manipulation of DNAJ chaperones has been shown to suppress aggregation and ameliorate polyglutamine toxicity in cells and flies. However, to date these promising ... [more]

Brain Apr. 01, 2012; 135(0);1180-96 [Pubmed: 22396390]

Throughput

  • Low Throughput

Curated By

  • BioGRID