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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 14, Issue 9, Pages 2419-2430Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2sc06116c
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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play important roles in biology. However, there are limited methods to study interactions driven by specific post-translational modifications (PTMs). In this study, a panel of novel myristic acid analog probes were designed and synthesized to capture PTM-specific interactions. These probes successfully labeled NMT substrates in cells and formed covalent crosslinks with their interacting proteins, allowing the identification of known and novel interactors of myristoylated proteins.
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essential and pervasive regulatory elements in biology. Despite the development of a range of techniques to probe PPIs in living systems, there is a dearth of approaches to capture interactions driven by specific post-translational modifications (PTMs). Myristoylation is a lipid PTM added to more than 200 human proteins, where it may regulate membrane localization, stability or activity. Here we report the design and synthesis of a panel of novel photocrosslinkable and clickable myristic acid analog probes, and their characterization as efficient substrates for human N-myristoyltransferases NMT1 and NMT2, both biochemically and through X-ray crystallography. We demonstrate metabolic incorporation of probes to label NMT substrates in cell culture and in situ intracellular photoactivation to form a covalent crosslink between modified proteins and their interactors, capturing a snapshot of interactions in the presence of the lipid PTM. Proteomic analyses revealed both known and multiple novel interactors of a series of myristoylated proteins, including ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1) and spliceosome-associated RNA helicase DDX46. The concept exemplified by these probes offers an efficient approach for exploring the PTM-specific interactome without the requirement for genetic modification, which may prove broadly applicable to other PTMs.
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