Project description:To further illustrate the mechanism of HEXB mediated YAP1 activation in GBM cells, immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry (IP-MS) was employed to identify potential binding partners of HEXB.
Project description:To explore potential proteins binding with LTA4H, co-immunoprecipitation (co-IP) and LC-MS/MS analysis were performed using Hepa1-6 cells overexpressing Flag-LTA4H. Anti-Flag and anti-IgG antibodies were used for immunoprecipitation to identify the interacting proteins.
Project description:We screened the protein partners that associate with CHRONO using immunoprecipitation followed with mass spectrometry (IP-MS). IP-MS identified proteins involved in multiple protein-protein interaction networks that are functional in multiple pathways and cellular functions.
Project description:To analyze OTX2 function in adult choroid plexus, we performed several OTX2 co-immunoprecipitation (co-IP) experiments with mass spectrometry analysis to identify potential protein partners. We previously discovered that OTX2 protein also accumulates non-cell autonomously in subventricular zone (SVZ) and rostral migratory stream (RMS) astrocytes and in visual cortex (VCx) parvalbumin cells. The identification of alternate protein partners in cell-autonomous and non-cell-autonomous contexts would suggest OTX2 takes on specific roles after transferring between cells. In order to test this hypothesis, and to reinforce choroid plexus analysis, we also performed OTX2 co-IP on lysates from adult mouse SVZ, RMS and VCx.
Project description:Immunoprecipitation samples were collected using anti-Flag antibody from control vector and Flag-UNC5B-overexpressing HEK293T cells and subjected to mass spectrometry (MS) to identify potential binding partners of UNC5B protein.
Project description:The activity of enhancers and promoters fine-tunes the transcriptional program of mammalian cells through the recruitment and interplay between cell type-specific and ubiquitous transcription factors. Despite their key role in modulating transcription, the identification of enhancers is challenged by their limited sequence conservation and highly variable distance from target genes. Although enhancers are characterised by the strong enrichment of mono-methylation at lysine 4 of histone H3, mirrored by low tri-methylation at the same residue, a comprehensive list of enhancers-associated histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) is still lacking. We undertook a proteomics investigation, based on chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with mass spectrometry (MS), to identify histone marks specifically associated to cis-regulatory elements in macrophages, focusing on enhancers. We also profiled their plasticity during the transcriptional activation induced by an inflammatory stimulus. The proteomic analysis suggested novel PTM associations, which were validated by analysis of ChIP- and RNA-seq data, whose intersection revealed the existence of novel sub-populations of enhancers marked by specific signatures: the dual mark H3K4me1/K36me2 labels transcription at enhancers, whereas H3K4me1/K36me3 and H3K4me1/K79me2 tag distinct intronic enhancers. While demonstrating that analyzing restricted genomic regions can disclose the combinatorial language of histone modifications, this study highlights the potential of MS-based proteomics in addressing fundamental questions in epigenetics.
Project description:The activity of enhancers and promoters fine-tunes the transcriptional program of mammalian cells through the recruitment and interplay between cell type-specific and ubiquitous transcription factors. Despite their key role in modulating transcription, the identification of enhancers is challenged by their limited sequence conservation and highly variable distance from target genes. Although enhancers are characterised by the strong enrichment of mono-methylation at lysine 4 of histone H3, mirrored by low tri-methylation at the same residue, a comprehensive list of enhancers-associated histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) is still lacking. We undertook a proteomics investigation, based on chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with mass spectrometry (MS), to identify histone marks specifically associated to cis-regulatory elements in macrophages, focusing on enhancers. We also profiled their plasticity during the transcriptional activation induced by an inflammatory stimulus. The proteomic analysis suggested novel PTM associations, which were validated by analysis of ChIP- and RNA-seq data, whose intersection revealed the existence of novel sub-populations of enhancers marked by specific signatures: the dual mark H3K4me1/K36me2 labels transcription at enhancers, whereas H3K4me1/K36me3 and H3K4me1/K79me2 tag distinct intronic enhancers. While demonstrating that analyzing restricted genomic regions can disclose the combinatorial language of histone modifications, this study highlights the potential of MS-based proteomics in addressing fundamental questions in epigenetics.
Project description:In this project, we identified a novel RNA-binding protein, MHZ9. And we analyzed the potential proteins interacted with MHZ9 through immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry (IP-MS). The N-terminal domain of MHZ9 (MHZ9-N) contains a putative RNA splicing and modification domain PRP4. To identify RNA binding sites in the MHZ9-N. We performed XRNAX-IP-MS assay.
Project description:we performed immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry (IP-MS) analysis using the syngenetic Hepa1-6 cells to identify novel PRMT3 substrates that may be the key downstream effectors regulating the T cell-mediated anti-tumor immunity.