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Title: Proteomic identification of ubiquitinated proteins from human cells expressing His-tagged ubiquitin.

Authors: Kirkpatrick, Donald S; Weldon, Stephen F; Tsaprailis, George; Liebler, Daniel C; Gandolfi, A Jay

Published In Proteomics, (2005 May)

Abstract: A proteomics method has been developed to purify and identify the specific proteins modified by ubiquitin (Ub) from human cells. In purified samples, Ub and 21 other proteins were identified by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) spectra using SEQUEST. These proteins included several of the expected carriers of Ub including Ub-conjugating enzymes and histone proteins. To perform these experiments, a cell line coexpressing epitope tagged His(6X)-Ub and green fluorescent protein (GFP) was generated by stably transfecting HEK293 cells. Ubiquitinated proteins were purified using nickel-affinity chromatography and digested in solution with trypsin. Complex mixtures of peptides were separated by reversed phase chromatography and analyzed by nano LC-MS/MS using the LCQ quadrupole ion-trap mass spectrometer. Proteins identified from His(6X)-Ub-GFP transfected cells were compared to a list of proteins from HEK293 cells, which associate with nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni-NTA)-agarose in the absence of His-tagged Ub. In a proof of principle experiment, His(6X)-Ub-GFP transfected cells were treated with As (III) (10 microM, 24 h) in an attempt to identify substrates increasingly modified by Ub. In this experiment, proliferating cell nuclear antigen, a DNA repair protein and known ubiquitin substrate, was confidently identified. This proteomics method, developed for the analysis of ubiquitinated proteins, is a step towards large-scale characterization of Ub-protein conjugates in numerous physiological and pathological states.

PubMed ID: 15852347 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Amino Acid Sequence; Blotting, Western; Cell Line; Chromatography, Affinity; Eukaryotic Cells/chemistry*; Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism; Histidine/chemistry; Humans; Molecular Sequence Data; Nickel/chemistry; Nitrilotriacetic Acid/chemistry; Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen/chemistry; Proteins/chemistry*; Proteins/isolation & purification; Proteomics*; Substrate Specificity; Transfection; Transgenes; Ubiquitin/chemistry*

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