Journal
PROTEOMICS
Volume 9, Issue 11, Pages 3079-3089Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800872
Keywords
Chloroplast chaperones; MS; Protein-protein interactions; RNA interference; Stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Schr 617124]
- Junior-professorenprogramm Baden-Wurttemberg
- GoFORSYS
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Knowledge of the interaction partners of a protein of interest may provide important information on its function. Common to currently available tools for the identification of protein-protein interactions, however, is their high rates of false positives. Only recently an assay was reported that allowed for the unequivocal identification of protein-protein interactions in mammalian cells in a single experiment. This assay, termed quantitative immunoprecipitation combined with knockdown (QUICK), combines RNAi, stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture, immunoprecipitation, and quantitative MS. We are using the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to understand the roles of chaperones in chloroplast biogenesis. The goal of this work was to apply QUICK to Chlamydomonas for the identification of novel interaction partners of vesicle-inducing protein in plastids 1 (VIPP1), a protein required for the biosynthesis/maintenance of thylakoid membranes and known substrate of chloroplast HSP70B. We report here a robust QUICK protocol for Chlamydomonas that has been improved (i) by introducing a cross-linking step (-X) to improve protein complex stability and (ii) by including a control for the correction of unequal immunoprecipitation and/or labeling efficiencies. Using QUICK and cross-linking we could verify that HSP70B and CGE1 form a complex with VIPP1 and could also demonstrate that chloroplast HSP90C is part of this complex. Moreover, we could show that the chaperones interact with VIPP1 also in membrane fractions.
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