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ArticleChembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology2021

Real-Time and Label-Free Measurement of Deubiquitinase Activity with a MspA Nanopore.

Spencer A Shorkey, Jiale Du, Ryan Pham, Eric R Strieter, Min Chen

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Article in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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5 authors.

Spencer A ShorkeyMolecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7502-6980
Jiale DuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1410-7020
Ryan PhamDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4954-6798
Eric R StrieterMolecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3447-3669
Min ChenMolecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7572-0761

Funding

CHEMISTRY-BIOLOGY INTERFACE PREDOCTORAL TRAINING GRANTST32GM008515 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI THOMPSON, LYNMARIE K. · 1995 to 2020
$4.3M
Chemistry-Biology Interface Predoctoral Training GrantT32GM139789 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI ERIC Robert STRIETER · 2021 to 2026
$3.4M
Understanding the Function of Deubiquitinases Using Chemical Tools: Administrative SupplementR01GM110543 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI STRIETER, ERIC ROBERT · 2014 to 2022
$2.9M
OmpG nanopore for single molecule protein sensingR01GM115442 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI CHEN, MIN · 2016 to 2020
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM110543NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115442NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008515NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM139789
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Covalently attaching ubiquitin (Ub) to cellular proteins as a post-translational modification can result in altered function of modified proteins. Enzymes regulating Ub as a post-translational modification, such as ligases and deubiquitinases, are challenging to characterize in part due to the low throughput of in-vitro assays. Single-molecule nanopore based assays have the advantage of detecting proteins with high specificity and resolution, and in a label-free, real-time fashion. Here we demonstrate the use of a MspA nanopore for discriminating and quantifying Ub proteins. We further applied the MspA pore to measure the Ub-chain disassembly activity of UCH37, a proteasome associated deubiquitinase. The implementation of this MspA system into nanopore arrays could enable high throughput characterizations of unknown deubiquitinases as well as drug screening against disease related enzymes.

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Deubiquitinating EnzymesNanoporesHumansUbiquitinUbiquitin ThiolesteraseDeubiquitinating EnzymesUbiquitinUbiquitin Thiolesterasedeubiquitinase activity assayMspAnanoporesensingubiquitin

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PMID34060221
PMCPMC8416795

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