PMID- 21708266 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120209 LR - 20161125 IS - 1096-0279 (Electronic) IS - 1046-5928 (Linking) VI - 80 IP - 2 DP - 2011 Dec TI - Purification of SUMO-1 modified IkappaBalpha and complex formation with NF-kappaB. PG - 211-6 LID - 10.1016/j.pep.2011.06.009 [doi] AB - Covalent modification of proteins with SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifier) affects many cellular processes, including transcriptional regulation, DNA repair and signal transduction. Although hundreds of SUMO targets have been identified, many biological outcomes of protein sumoylation remain poorly understood. In particular, biochemical and structural analysis can only be easily conducted if highly pure sumoylated substrates are available. Purification of sumoylated substrates in vitro or in bacteria have been previously reported but separating the sumoylated protein from the undesired unmodified fraction is often technically challenging, inefficient and time consuming. Here we develop a new vector system for in vivo sumoylation in Escherichia coli which improves purification of sumoylated proteins. We describe the purification of IkappaBalpha, its sumoylation, the subsequent separation and purification of the modified and the unmodified forms and the purification of the complex IkappaBalpha-SUMO-1/NF-kappaB. After a first GST affinity chromatography and GST-tag removal, a unique metal-ion affinity chromatography using a 6xHis-SUMO-1 tag results in mgs of highly pure SUMO-1 modified IkappaBalpha. Our pure SUMO-1 modified IkappaB/NF-kappaB complex could be a useful tool to identify new interaction partner specific of the SUMO-1 modified IkappaBalpha form. This approach may be extended to other SUMO substrates not isolable by classical chromatography techniques. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Lens, Zoe AU - Lens Z AD - IRI USR 3078 CNRS, Parc CNRS de la Haute Borne, 50 Avenue de Halley, BP 70478, 59658 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. FAU - Dewitte, Frederique AU - Dewitte F FAU - Van Lint, Carine AU - Van Lint C FAU - de Launoit, Yvan AU - de Launoit Y FAU - Villeret, Vincent AU - Villeret V FAU - Verger, Alexis AU - Verger A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110625 PL - United States TA - Protein Expr Purif JT - Protein expression and purification JID - 9101496 RN - 0 (I-kappa B Proteins) RN - 0 (NF-kappa B p50 Subunit) RN - 0 (NFKB1 protein, human) RN - 0 (NFKBIA protein, human) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - 0 (SUMO-1 Protein) RN - 0 (SUMO1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Transcription Factor RelA) RN - 139874-52-5 (NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha) SB - IM MH - Catalytic Domain MH - Chromatography, Affinity MH - Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel MH - Escherichia coli/genetics/metabolism MH - Genetic Vectors/genetics/metabolism MH - Humans MH - I-kappa B Proteins/genetics/*isolation & purification/metabolism MH - NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha MH - NF-kappa B p50 Subunit/genetics/*isolation & purification/metabolism MH - Protein Interaction Mapping MH - Recombinant Proteins/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - SUMO-1 Protein/genetics/*metabolism MH - Sumoylation MH - Transcription Factor RelA/genetics/*isolation & purification/metabolism MH - Ultrafiltration EDAT- 2011/06/29 06:00 MHDA- 2012/02/10 06:00 CRDT- 2011/06/29 06:00 PHST- 2011/05/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/06/09 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2011/06/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/06/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/06/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/02/10 06:00 [medline] AID - S1046-5928(11)00156-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.pep.2011.06.009 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Protein Expr Purif. 2011 Dec;80(2):211-6. doi: 10.1016/j.pep.2011.06.009. Epub 2011 Jun 25.