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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2022

Affinity Purification of Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored Proteins by Alpha-Toxin.

Kevin Huang, Sungjin Park

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2022. 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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4citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Kevin HuangDepartment of Neurobiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Sungjin ParkDepartment of Neurobiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. sungjin.park@neuro.utah.edu.
University of Utah · US

Funding

Signaling mechanism for synapse formation and function regulated by the release of GPI-anchored synaptogenic factors from astrocytesR01NS102444 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI PARK, SUNG JIN · 2017 to 2021
$1.7M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102444
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchor modification attaches a lipid anchor to the C-terminus of a protein, tethering the protein to the cell surface membrane. From this membrane-bound state, GPI-anchored proteins (GPI-APs) can be released into the extracellular space by multiple mechanisms, including proteolytic shedding and GPI lipase activity. Since the core GPI structure is co-released with the protein by GPI lipase activity, while removed from the protein by proteolytic cleavage, affinity purification by alpha-toxin (αToxin), which binds to the core domain of the GPI-anchor, isolates GPI-containing proteins from the culture medium. The following method details a technique for affinity purification of GP-APs using His-tagged αToxin for identification of GPI-anchored proteins, analysis of the GPI-anchor status of a protein of interest, or purification for subsequent biochemical analysis.

Indexed as

Chromatography, AffinityCell MembraneGlycosylphosphatidylinositolsGPI-Linked ProteinsLipaseGlycosylphosphatidylinositolsGPI-Linked ProteinsLipaseAffinity purificationAlpha-toxinBiochemical analysisGlycosylphosphatidylinositolGPIGPI-APPull downαToxin

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PMID34626384
OpenAlexW3202758689

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