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ArticlePloS one2017

Affinity purification of human m-calpain through an intrinsically disordered inhibitor, calpastatin.

Hung Huy Nguyen, Mihaly Varadi, Peter Tompa, Kris Pauwels

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Hung Huy NguyenVIB Center for Structural Biology (CSB), Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Brussels, Belgium.
Mihaly VaradiVIB Center for Structural Biology (CSB), Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Brussels, Belgium.
Peter TompaVIB Center for Structural Biology (CSB), Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Brussels, Belgium.
Kris PauwelsVIB Center for Structural Biology (CSB), Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Brussels, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7341-0890
Vrije Universiteit Brussel · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Calpains are calcium-activated proteases that have biomedical and biotechnological potential. Their activity is tightly regulated by their endogenous inhibitor, calpastatin that binds to the enzyme only in the presence of calcium. Conventional approaches to purify calpain comprise multiple chromatographic steps, and are labor-intensive, leading to low yields. Here we report a new purification procedure for the human m-calpain based on its reversible calcium-mediated interaction with the intrinsically disordered calpastatin. We exploit the specific binding properties of human calpastatin domain 1 (hCSD1) to physically capture human m-calpain from a complex biological mixture. The dissociation of the complex is mediated by chelating calcium, upon which heterodimeric calpain elutes while hCSD1 remains immobilized onto the stationary phase. This novel affinity-based purification was compared to the conventional multistep purification strategy and we find that it is robust, it yields a homogeneous preparation, it can be scaled up easily and it rests on a non-disruptive step that maintains close to physiological conditions that allow further biophysical and functional studies.

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BiotinylationCalcium-Binding ProteinsCalcium Chelating AgentsCalpainChromatography, AffinityChromatography, GelChromatography, Ion ExchangeCircular DichroismComputational BiologyEscherichia coliHumansInterferometryKineticsMutationProtein BindingProtein DomainsCalcium-Binding ProteinsCalcium Chelating AgentsCalpaincalpastatinCAPN2 protein, humanRecombinant Proteins

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PMID28319173
PMCPMC5358782
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