TY - CHAP
T1 - Liposome Co-sedimentation and Co-flotation Assays to Study Lipid–Protein Interactions
AU - Senju, Yosuke
AU - Lappalainen, Pekka
AU - Zhao, Hongxia
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the Academy of Finland (H.Z. and P.L.), Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation (H.Z.), Guangxi distinguished expert funding (H.Z.), FY 2015 Researcher Exchange Program between JSPS and AF (Y.S.), Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders (Y.S.), The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation (Y.S.), The Ichiro Kanehara Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Sciences and Medical Care (Y.
Funding Information:
S.), The Association for Fordays Self-Reliance Support in Japan (Y. S.), The Futaba Research Grant Program of the Futaba Foundation (Y.S.), The NOVARTIS Foundation (Japan) for the Promotion of Science (Y.S.), Okayama Foundation for Science and Technology (Y.S.), Wesco Scientific Promotion Foundation (Y.S.), and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP19K23727, JP20K06589 (Y.S.).
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - A large proportion of proteins are expected to interact with cellular membranes to carry out their physiological functions in processes such as membrane transport, morphogenesis, cytoskeletal organization, and signal transduction. The recruitment of proteins at the membrane–cytoplasm interface and their activities are precisely regulated by phosphoinositides, which are negatively charged phospholipids found on the cytoplasmic leaflet of cellular membranes and play critical roles in membrane homeostasis and cellular signaling. Thus, it is important to reveal which proteins interact with phosphoinositides and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. Here, we present two standard in vitro methods, liposome co-sedimentation and co-flotation assays, to study lipid–protein interactions. Liposomes can mimic various biological membranes in these assays because their lipid compositions and concentrations can be varied. Thus, in addition to mechanisms of lipid–protein interactions, these methods provide information on the possible specificities of proteins toward certain lipids such as specific phosphoinositide species and can hence shed light on the roles of membrane interactions on the functions of membrane-associated proteins.
AB - A large proportion of proteins are expected to interact with cellular membranes to carry out their physiological functions in processes such as membrane transport, morphogenesis, cytoskeletal organization, and signal transduction. The recruitment of proteins at the membrane–cytoplasm interface and their activities are precisely regulated by phosphoinositides, which are negatively charged phospholipids found on the cytoplasmic leaflet of cellular membranes and play critical roles in membrane homeostasis and cellular signaling. Thus, it is important to reveal which proteins interact with phosphoinositides and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. Here, we present two standard in vitro methods, liposome co-sedimentation and co-flotation assays, to study lipid–protein interactions. Liposomes can mimic various biological membranes in these assays because their lipid compositions and concentrations can be varied. Thus, in addition to mechanisms of lipid–protein interactions, these methods provide information on the possible specificities of proteins toward certain lipids such as specific phosphoinositide species and can hence shed light on the roles of membrane interactions on the functions of membrane-associated proteins.
KW - Binding mode
KW - Lipid–protein interactions
KW - Liposome
KW - Phosphoinositides
KW - Phospholipids
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-0716-1142-5_14
DO - 10.1007/978-1-0716-1142-5_14
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 33481241
AN - SCOPUS:85100324469
T3 - Methods in Molecular Biology
SP - 195
EP - 204
BT - Methods in Molecular Biology
PB - Humana Press Inc.
ER -