title: Streptavidin-Binding Peptide (SBP)-tagged SMC2 allows single-step affinity fluorescence, blotting or purification of the condensin complex.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cell biologists face the need to rapidly analyse their proteins of interest in order to gain insight into their function. Often protein purification, cellular localisation and Western blot analyses can be multi-step processes, where protein is lost, activity is destroyed or effective antibodies have not yet been generated.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To develop a method that simplifies the critical protein analytical steps of the laboratory researcher, leading to easy, efficient and rapid protein purification, cellular localisation and quantification.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have tagged the SMC2 subunit of the condensin complex with the Streptavidin-Binding Peptide (SBP), optimising and demonstrating the efficacious use of this tag for performing these protein analytical steps. Based on silver staining, and Western analysis, SBP delivered an outstanding specificity and purity of the condensin complex. We also developed a rapid and highly specific procedure to localise SBP-tagged proteins in cells in a single step procedure thus bypassing the need for using antibodies. Furthermore we have shown that the SBP tag can be used for isolating tagged proteins from chemically cross-linked cell populations for capturing DNA-protein interactions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The small 38-amino acid synthetic SBP offers the potential to successfully perform all four critical analytical procedures as a single step and should have a general utility for the study of many proteins and protein complexes.
authors.affiliation: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Ji Hun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Tsz M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Alison N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: K H A
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Choo
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kalitsis
authors.forename: Damien F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D005453:Fluorescence; D006801:Humans; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D009154:Mutation; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D019809:Streptavidin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; C490381:SMC2 protein, human; C108312:condensin complexes; C452700:streptavidin-binding peptide; D019809:Streptavidin; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases