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ArticlePloS one2018

Expression and purification of the mammalian translocator protein for structural studies.

Elisabeth Graeber, Volodymyr M Korkhov

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Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 53% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Purification of Membrane Proteins Overexpressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elisabeth GraeberLaboratory of Biomolecular Research, Division of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.
Volodymyr M KorkhovLaboratory of Biomolecular Research, Division of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0962-9433
Paul Scherrer Institute · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The translocator protein (TSPO) is an 18 kDa polytopic membrane protein of the outer mitochondrial membrane, abundantly present in the steroid-synthesising cells. TSPO has been linked to a number of disorders, and it is recognised as a promising drug target with a range of potential medical applications. Structural and biochemical characterisation of a mammalian TSPO requires expression and purification of the protein of high quality in sufficiently large quantities. Here we describe detailed procedures for heterologous expression and purification of mammalian TSPO in HEK293 cells. We demonstrate that the established procedures can be used for untagged TSPO as well as for C-terminally fused TSPO constructs. Our protocol can be routinely used to generate high-quality TSPO preparations for biochemical and structural studies.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsDetergentsHEK293 CellsHumansLigandsProtein BindingProtein StabilityReceptors, GABARecombinant Fusion ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsSequence AlignmentSwineTemperatureDetergentsLigandsReceptors, GABARecombinant Fusion ProteinsRecombinant Proteins

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PMID29897975
PMCPMC5999236
OpenAlexW2808083803

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