发布: 2016年10月20日第6卷第20期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.1979 浏览次数: 6843
评审: Ivan ZanoniMichael EnosMareta Ruseva
Abstract
Sumoylation controls many cellular processes. Protein kinase C-θ (PKC-θ), a member of the Ca2+-independent PKC subfamily of kinases, serves as a regulator of T cell activation by mediating the T cell antigen receptor (TCR)- and coreceptor CD28-induced activation of the transcription factors NF-κB and AP-1 and, to a lesser extent, NFAT, and, subsequently, interleukin 2 (IL-2) production and T cell proliferation. We recently proved that TCR-induced sumoylation of PKC-θ is required for its function in T cells (Wang et al., 2015). Here we describe the method to analyze TCR-induced sumoylation of overexpressed or endogenous PKC-θ, which is carried out by immunoprecipitation of PKC-θ followed by immunoblotting with anti-SUMO1 antibody.
Keywords: TCR (TCR)Background
Like ubiquitination, sumoylation is the process of covalently modifying a target protein with SUMO. To disrupt the non-covalent interactions and to detect sumoylation specifically on the protein of interest, a stringent condition for cell lysis, immunoprecipitation and washing should be used. However, lysing cells with lysis buffer containing 1% or more SDS yields highly viscous cell lysates, making it difficult to proceed to the immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting steps. Here we describe an alternative lysing-denaturing procedure. Firstly, cells were lysed in lysis buffer supplemented with the SUMO specific proteases inhibitor N-ethylmaleimide. After centrifugation, 1% SDS was added into the supernatant of the cell lysates. The lysates were diluted 10-folds with lysis buffer supplemented with N-ethylmaleimide and subjected to immunoprecipitation. This protocol could also be adopted to detect other ubiquitin-like modification such as neddylation.
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Wang, X., Chen, Z., Wang, Q. and Li, Y. (2016). Assessment of TCR-induced Sumoylation of PKC-θ. Bio-protocol 6(20): e1979. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.1979.
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免疫学 > 免疫细胞功能 > 抗原特异反应
生物化学 > 蛋白质 > 活性
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