Tandem affinity purification in Drosophila: the advantages of the GS-TAP system

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Phillip KyriakakisAlexey Veraksa

Abstract

Tandem affinity purification (TAP) has been widely used for the analysis of protein complexes. We investigated the parameters of the recently developed TAP method (GS-TAP) and its application in Drosophila. This new tag combination includes two Protein G modules and a streptavidin binding peptide (SBP), separated by one or two TEV protease cleavage sites. We made pMK33-based GS-TAP vectors to allow for generation of stable cell lines using hygromycin selection and inducible expression from a metallothionein promoter, as well as pUAST-based vectors that can be used for inducible expression in flies. Rescue experiments in flies demonstrated that the GS-TAP tag preserves the function of the tagged protein. We have done parallel purifications of proteins tagged with the new GS-TAP tag or with the conventional TAP tag (containing the Protein A and calmodulin binding peptide domains) at the amino terminus, using both cultured cells and embryos. A major difference between the two tags was in the levels of contaminating proteins, which were significantly lower in the GS-TAP purifications. The GS-TAP procedure also resulted in higher yield of the bait protein. Overall, GS-TAP is an improved method of protein complex purification because...Continue Reading

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