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In vivo characterization of the bacterial intramembrane-cleaving protease RseP using the heme binding tag-based assay iCliPSpy

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COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04654-z

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The article introduces a simple assay, iCLiPSpy, for studying intramembrane-cleaving proteases (I-CLiPs) in vivo. This method allows for easy detection of enzyme activity and investigation of residues important for substrate binding and activity. It has the potential to be used as a screening assay for I-CLiP inhibitors or activators.
Regulated intramembrane proteolysis (RIP) describes the protease-dependent cleavage of transmembrane proteins within the hydrophobic core of cellular membranes. Intramembrane-cleaving proteases (I-CliPs) that catalyze these reactions are found in all kingdoms of life and are involved in a wide range of cellular processes, including signaling and protein homeostasis. I-CLiPs are multispanning membrane proteins and represent challenging targets in structural and enzyme biology. Here we introduce iCLiPSpy, a simple assay to study I-CLiPs in vivo. To allow easy detection of enzyme activity, we developed a heme-binding reporter based on TNF alpha that changes color after I-CLiP-mediated proteolysis. Co-expression of the protease and reporter in Escherichia coli (E. coli) results in white or green colonies, depending on the activity of the protease. As a proof of concept, we use this assay to study the bacterial intramembrane-cleaving zinc metalloprotease RseP in vivo. iCLiPSpy expands the methodological repertoire for identifying residues important for substrate binding or activity of I-CLiPs and can in principle be adapted to a screening assay for the identification of inhibitors or activators of I-CLiPs, which is of great interest for proteases being explored as biomedical targets. iCLiPSpy is a simple assay to identify residues important for substrate binding and activity of intramembrane-cleaving proteases (I-CLiPs) in vivo and can be adapted to a screening assay for I-CLiP inhibitor or activator discovery.

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