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Methods for the Detection of Paxillin Post-translational Modifications and Interacting Proteins by Mass Spectrometry
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Departmentof Chemistry.
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Department of Cell Biology.
Department of Chemistry and Pathology.
Abstract

Methods for the simultaneous identification of interacting proteins and post-translational modifications of the focal adhesion adapter protein, paxillin, are presented. The strategy includes (1) lower-level, transient transfection of FLAG-GFP-Paxillin into HEK293 cells, (2) incubation of cells with phosphatase inhibitors prior to lysis, (3) purification of paxillin by anti-FLAG immunoprecipitation, (4) analysis of peptides generated from on-beads digestion using LTQ−FT or LTQ−ETD mass spectrometry, and (5) enrichment of phosphopeptide methyl esters with IMAC. Using the above strategies, we identify 29 phosphorylation sites (19 novel and 10 previously reported) and a novel glycosylation site on Ser 74. Furthermore, with this method, we simultaneously detect 10 co-purifying proteins which are present in focal adhesion complexes. Extension of these methods to other substrates should facilitate generation of global phosphorylation maps and protein−protein interactions for any protein of interest.
Keywords: paxillin • IMAC • phosphorylation • glycosylation • GlcNAc • methyl esters • peroxovanadate • calyculin A • ETD
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- Published In Issue October 10, 2005
- Received July 1, 2005
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