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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Andrews, Simeon S.
• Schaefer-Ramadan, Stephanie
• Al-Thani, Nayra M.
• Ahmed, Ikhlak
• Mohamoud, Yasmin A.
• Malek, Joel A.

Titel

High-resolution protein–protein interaction mapping using all-versus-all sequencing (AVA-Seq)

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of biological chemistry, 2019-07, Vol.294 (30), p.11549-11558

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Two-hybrid systems can be used for investigating protein–protein interactions and may provide important information about gene products with unknown function. Despite their success in mapping protein interactions, two-hybrid systems have remained mostly untouched by improvements in next-generation DNA sequencing. The two-hybrid systems rely on one-versus-all methods in which each bait is sequentially screened against an entire library. Here, we developed a screening method that joins both bait and prey as a convergent fusion into one bacterial plasmid vector that can then be amplified and paired-end sequencing by next-generation sequencing (NGS). Our method enables all-versus-all sequencing (AVA-Seq) and utilizes NGS to remove multiple bottlenecks of the two-hybrid system. AVA-Seq allows for high-resolution protein–protein interaction mapping of a small set of proteins and has the potential for lower-resolution mapping of entire proteomes. Features of the system include ORF selection to improve efficiency, high bacterial transformation efficiency, a convergent fusion vector to allow paired-end sequencing of interactors, and the use of protein fragments rather than full-length proteins to better resolve specific protein contact points. We demonstrate the system’s strengths and limitations on a set of proteins known to interact in humans and provide a framework for future large-scale projects.