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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 100, 期 10, 页码 2513-2521出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.03.063
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institutes of Health [EY10329, F32EY018981]
Fluorescence spectroscopy is an indispensible tool for studying the structure and conformational dynamics of protein molecules both in isolation and in their cellular context. The ideal probes for monitoring intramolecular protein motions are small, cysteine-reactive fluorophores. However, it can be difficult to obtain specific labeling of a desired cysteine in proteins with multiple cysteines, in a mixture of proteins, or in a protein's native environment, in which many cysteine-containing proteins are present. To obtain specific labeling, we developed a method we call cysteine metal protection and labeling (CyMPL). With this method, a desired cysteine can be reversibly protected by binding group 12 metal ions (e.g., Cd(2+) and Zn(2+)) while background cysteines are blocked with nonfluorescent covalent modifiers. We increased the metal affinity for specific cysteines by incorporating them into minimal binding sites in existing secondary structural motifs (i.e., alpha-helix or beta-strand). After the metal ions were removed, the deprotected cysteines were then available to specifically react with a fluorophore.
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