A Flow Cytometric Assay for the Study of E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Activityb

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2009-07Author
Hilliard, Joshua G.
Cooper, Anne L.
Slusser, Joyce G.
Davido, David J.
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Wiley
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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BACKGROUND: Current methods for monitoring E3 ubiquitin ligase activity in cell culture or in vivo are limited. As a result, the degradation of cellular targets by many E3 ubiquitin ligases in live cells has not yet been examined. METHODS: A target of an E3 ubiquitin ligase was expressed as a fluorescently labeled protein in cell culture. If the E3 ubiquitin ligase mediates the degradation of a target protein in cell culture, it is expected that the target will show a reduced fluorescence signal by FCM analysis. We initially used the E3 ubiquitin ligase, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infected cell protein 0 (ICP0) and one of its targets, promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein, to determine the feasibility of our approach. Cells expressing a PML-GFP fusion protein were selected by cell sorting and infected with an adenoviral vector expressing ICP0. RESULTS: In contrast to mock-infected cells, only PML-GFP-expressing cells infected with the ICP0 adenoviral vector led to a significant decrease in the fluorescence signal of PML-GFP when examined by fluorescence microscopy and FCM analysis. CONCLUSIONS: Using HSV-1 ICP0 as a paradigm, it is possible to examine the live activity of an E3 ubiquitin ligase (via one of its targets) in cell culture with FCM analysis.
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hilliard, J. G., Cooper, A. L., Slusser, J. G. and Davido, D. J. (2009), A flow cytometric assay for the study of E3 ubiquitin ligase activity. Cytometry, 75A: 634–641. doi:10.1002/cyto.a.20738, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.a.20738. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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Hilliard, J. G., Cooper, A. L., Slusser, J. G., & Davido, D. J. (2009). A Flow Cytometric Assay for the Study of E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Activity. Cytometry. Part A : The Journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology, 75(7), 634–641. http://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.a.20738
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