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ArticleMethods in enzymology2016

Production of Chemokine/Chemokine Receptor Complexes for Structural Biophysical Studies.

Martin Gustavsson, Yi Zheng, Tracy M Handel

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Article in Methods in enzymology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Martin GustavssonSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
Yi ZhengSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
Tracy M HandelDepartment of Pharmacology, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA. Electronic address: thandel@ucsd.edu.
University of California, San Diego · USUniversity of Montana · US

Funding

STRUCTURE OF MACROPHAGE CHEMOTACTIC ACTIVATING PROTEINSR01AI037113 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HANDEL, TRACY M · 1995 to 2015
$5.2M
Structure, Dynamics and Activation Mechanisms of Chemokine ReceptorsU01GM094612 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI CHANCE, MARK R · 2010 to 2014
$4.5M
The structural plasticity of chemokine and gp120 recognition by CCR5R01AI118985 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HANDEL, TRACY M, KUFAREVA, IRINA · 2015 to 2019
$2.7M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI037113NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI118985NIAID NIH HHS R01AI118985NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI37113NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM094612NIGMS NIH HHS U01GM094612
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of methods for expression and purification of seven-transmembrane receptors has led to an increase in structural and biophysical data and greatly improved the understanding of receptor structure and function. For chemokine receptors, this has been highlighted by the determination of crystal structures of CXCR4 and CCR5 in complex with small-molecule antagonists, followed recently by two receptor/chemokine complexes; CXCR4 in complex with vMIP-II and US28 in complex with the CX3CL1. However, these studies cover only a few of the many chemokines and chemokine receptors and production of stable receptor/chemokine complexes remains a challenging task. Here, we present a method for producing purified complexes between chemokine receptors and chemokines by coexpression in Sf9 cells. Using the complex between atypical chemokine receptor 3 and its native chemokine CXCL12 as an example, we describe the virus production, protein expression, and purification process as well as reconstitution into different membrane mimics. This method provides an efficient way of producing pure receptor/chemokine complexes and has been used to successfully produce receptor/chemokine complexes for CXC as well as CC receptors.

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AnimalsBiophysicsChemokine CXCL12ChemokinesProtein EngineeringReceptors, ChemokineReceptors, CXCRRecombinant ProteinsSf9 CellsACKR3 protein, humanChemokine CXCL12ChemokinesReceptors, ChemokineReceptors, CXCRRecombinant ProteinsACKR3ChemokineChemokine receptorCoexpressionCXCL12Membrane proteinProtein complexSf9

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PMID26921949
PMCPMC4770566
OpenAlexW2203699292

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