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ArticleBio-protocol2018

Structural Analysis of Target Protein by Substituted Cysteine Accessibility Method.

Tetsuo Cai, Taisuke Tomita

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Article in Bio-protocol, 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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  1. Conformational Dynamics of Transmembrane Domain 3 of Presenilin 1 Is Associated with the Trimming Activity of γ-Secretase.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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2 authors.

Tetsuo CaiLaboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Taisuke TomitaLaboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Substituted Cysteine Accessibility Method (SCAM) is a biochemical approach to investigate the water accessibility or the spatial distance of particular cysteine residues substituted in the target protein. Protein topology and structure can be annotated by labeling with methanethiosulfonate reagents that specifically react with the cysteine residues facing the hydrophilic environment, even within the transmembrane domain. Cysteine crosslinking experiments provide us with information about the distance between two cysteine residues. The combination of these methods enables us to obtain information about the structural changes of the target protein. Here, we describe the detailed protocol for structural analysis using SCAM.

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BiotinylationCrosslinkingCysteineMembrane proteinStructural analysisSubstitutionWater accessibility

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PMID34395783
PMCPMC8328659

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