PMID- 28860039 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180712 LR - 20180720 IS - 1879-0542 (Electronic) IS - 0165-2478 (Linking) VI - 190 DP - 2017 Oct TI - The use of BirA-BAP system to study the effect of US2 and US11 on MHC class I heavy chain in cells. PG - 233-239 LID - S0165-2478(17)30281-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.imlet.2017.08.027 [doi] AB - Biotinylation has been extensively used for antibody tagging, affinity-based purification, and in protein/DNA-protein interaction studies. Here we describe the use of biotinylation to study the turn-over of proteins in cells. We use the prokaryotic biotin ligase (BirA) to biotinylate the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A2 (A2) heavy chain (HC), which was engineered to contain a biotin acceptor peptide (BAP). Controlled availability of biotin in combination with visualization using streptavidin-conjugated peroxidase made it possible to detect biotinylated BAP-A2. Further, we exploited the effects of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) unique short (US) proteins US2 and US11 on the turn-over of BAP-A2 HC. The full-length BAP-A2 HC and its mutants lacking either the cytosolic tail (tail-less) or both the transmembrane and cytosolic regions (soluble) were expressed via recombinant adenoviruses (rAd). The effect of US2, US11 and a control HCMV protein US9, also expressed via rAd, on each of the BAP- A2 forms was assessed. Experiments using this system showed that US2 and US11 cause proteasome-mediated degradation of full-length BAP-A2 HC but only US2 could cause degradation of tail-less BAP-A2. The results demonstrate that the technique of biotinylation can be used to study protein turn-over in cells. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 European Federation of Immunological Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Gauthami, S AU - Gauthami S AD - Ella Foundation, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, Hyderabad, 500078, India. FAU - Kumar, Deepak AU - Kumar D AD - Ella Foundation, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, Hyderabad, 500078, India. FAU - SivaSai, K S R AU - SivaSai KSR AD - Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology, Yamnampet, Ghatkesar, Hyderabad, 501301, India. FAU - Hegde, Nagendra R AU - Hegde NR AD - Ella Foundation, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, Hyderabad, 500078, India. Electronic address: hegde@niab.org.in. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170830 PL - Netherlands TA - Immunol Lett JT - Immunology letters JID - 7910006 RN - 0 (Escherichia coli Proteins) RN - 0 (HLA-A2 Antigen) RN - 0 (Heat-Shock Proteins) RN - 0 (RNA-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (Repressor Proteins) RN - 0 (US11 protein, herpesvirus) RN - 0 (US2 protein, Varicellovirus) RN - 0 (Viral Envelope Proteins) RN - 0 (Viral Proteins) RN - EC 3.4.21.92 (Endopeptidase Clp) RN - EC 3.6.1.3 (ClpB protein, E coli) RN - EC 6.3.- (Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases) RN - EC 6.3.4.15 (birA protein, E coli) SB - IM MH - Adenoviridae/genetics MH - Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases/*genetics MH - Cytomegalovirus/*physiology MH - Endopeptidase Clp/*genetics MH - Escherichia coli/*genetics MH - Escherichia coli Proteins/*genetics MH - Genetic Engineering MH - Genetic Vectors/genetics MH - HEK293 Cells MH - HLA-A2 Antigen/*genetics/metabolism MH - Heat-Shock Proteins/*genetics MH - Humans MH - Microorganisms, Genetically-Modified MH - Mutation/genetics MH - Proteolysis MH - RNA-Binding Proteins MH - Repressor Proteins/*genetics MH - Viral Envelope Proteins MH - Viral Proteins/*metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - BAP tagging OT - Biotinylation OT - HCMV OT - MHC OT - Protein turn-over EDAT- 2017/09/02 06:00 MHDA- 2018/07/13 06:00 CRDT- 2017/09/02 06:00 PHST- 2017/06/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/08/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/08/25 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/09/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/07/13 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/09/02 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0165-2478(17)30281-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.imlet.2017.08.027 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Immunol Lett. 2017 Oct;190:233-239. doi: 10.1016/j.imlet.2017.08.027. Epub 2017 Aug 30.