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J Biomol NMR
2006 Nov 01;363:179-88. doi: 10.1007/s10858-006-9079-9.
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In-cell NMR spectroscopy of proteins inside Xenopus laevis oocytes.
Sakai T
,
Tochio H
,
Tenno T
,
Ito Y
,
Kokubo T
,
Hiroaki H
,
Shirakawa M
.
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In-cell NMR is an application of solution NMR that enables the investigation of protein conformations inside living cells. We have measured in-cell NMR spectra in oocytes from the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. (15)N-labeled ubiquitin, its derivatives and calmodulin were injected into Xenopus oocytes and two-dimensional (1)H-(15)N correlation spectra of the proteins were obtained. While the spectrum of wild-type ubiquitin in oocytes had rather fewer cross-peaks compared to its in vitro spectrum, ubiquitin derivatives that are presumably unable to bind to ubiquitin-interacting proteins gave a markedly larger number of cross-peaks. This observation suggests that protein-protein interactions between ubiquitin and ubiquitin-interacting proteins may cause NMR signal broadening, and hence spoil the quality of the in-cell HSQC spectra. In addition, we observed the maturation of ubiquitin precursor derivative in living oocytes using the in-cell NMR technique. This process was partly inhibited by pre-addition of ubiquitin aldehyde, a specific inhibitor for ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase (UCH). Our work demonstrates the potential usefulness of in-cell NMR with Xenopus oocytes for the investigation of protein conformations and functions under intracellular environmental conditions.
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