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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2019

Translation-coupled protein folding assay using a protease to monitor the folding status.

Tatsuya Niwa, Eri Uemura, Yuki Matsuno, Hideki Taguchi

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tatsuya NiwaCell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
Eri UemuraCell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
Yuki MatsunoSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
Hideki TaguchiCell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6612-9339
Tokyo Institute of Technology · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein folding is an essential prerequisite for proteins to execute nearly all cellular functions. There is a growing demand for a simple and robust method to investigate protein folding on a large-scale under the same conditions. We previously developed a global folding assay system, in which proteins translated using an Escherichia coli-based cell-free translation system are centrifuged to quantitate the supernatant fractions. Although the assay is based on the assumption that the supernatants contain the folded native states, the supernatants also include nonnative unstructured proteins. In general, proteases recognize and degrade unstructured proteins, and thus we used a protease to digest the unstructured regions to monitor the folding status. The addition of Lon protease during the translation of proteins unmasked subfractions, not only in the soluble fractions but also in the aggregation-prone fractions. We translated ∼90 E. coli proteins in the protease-inclusion assay, in the absence and presence of chaperones. The folding assay, which sheds light on the molecular mechanisms underlying the aggregate formation and the chaperone effects, can be applied to a large-scale analysis.

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Protein FoldingEscherichia coli ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesProtease LaEscherichia coli ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesProtease Lacell-free translationprotease, chaperoneprotein aggregationprotein folding

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PMID30993770
PMCPMC6567683
OpenAlexW2936481517

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