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NATURE PROTOCOLS
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 1101-1111Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2016.061
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- iNEXT - Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Union [653706]
- MEDINTECH: Tecnologie convergenti per aumentare la sicurezza e l'efficacia di farmaci e vaccini [CTN01_00177_962865]
- Instruct, part of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)
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In-cell NMR spectroscopy is a unique tool for characterizing biological macromolecules in their physiological environment at atomic resolution. Recent progress in NMR instruments and sample preparation methods allows functional processes, such as metal uptake, disulfide-bond formation and protein folding, to be analyzed by NMR in living, cultured human cells. This protocol describes the necessary steps to overexpress one or more proteins of interest inside human embryonic kidney 293T (HEK293T) cells, and it explains how to set up in-cell NMR experiments. The cDNA is transiently transfected as a complex with a cationic polymer (DNA: PEI (polyethylenimine)), and protein expression is carried on for 2-3 d, after which the NMR sample is prepared. H-1 and H-1-N-15 correlation NMR experiments (for example, using band-selective optimized flip-angle short-transient heteronuclear multiple quantum coherence (SOFAST-HMQC)) can be carried out in <2 h, ensuring cell viability. Uniform N-15 labeling and amino-acid-specific (e.g., cysteine, methionine) labeling schemes are possible. The entire procedure takes 4 d from cell culture seeding to NMR data collection.
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