title: Large-scale protein-protein interaction analysis in Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts by split firefly luciferase complementation.
abstract: Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) constitute the regulatory network that coordinates diverse cellular functions. There are growing needs in plant research for creating protein interaction maps behind complex cellular processes and at a systems biology level. However, only a few approaches have been successfully used for large-scale surveys of PPIs in plants, each having advantages and disadvantages. Here we present split firefly luciferase complementation (SFLC) as a highly sensitive and noninvasive technique for in planta PPI investigation. In this assay, the separate halves of a firefly luciferase can come into close proximity and transiently restore its catalytic activity only when their fusion partners, namely the two proteins of interest, interact with each other. This assay was conferred with quantitativeness and high throughput potential when the Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplast system and a microplate luminometer were employed for protein expression and luciferase measurement, respectively. Using the SFLC assay, we could monitor the dynamics of rapamycin-induced and ascomycin-disrupted interaction between Arabidopsis FRB and human FKBP proteins in a near real-time manner. As a proof of concept for large-scale PPI survey, we further applied the SFLC assay to testing 132 binary PPIs among 8 auxin response factors (ARFs) and 12 Aux/IAA proteins from Arabidopsis. Our results demonstrated that the SFLC assay is ideal for in vivo quantitative PPI analysis in plant cells and is particularly powerful for large-scale binary PPI screens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. jli@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Jian-Feng
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jenifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bush
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McCormack
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D006801:Humans; D049409:Luciferases, Firefly / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D060066:Protein Interaction Maps; D011523:Protoplasts / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D049409:Luciferases, Firefly
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