Analysis of membrane protein topology in the plant secretory pathway

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Abstract

Topology of membrane proteins provides important information for the understanding of protein function and intermolecular associations. Integrate membrane proteins are generally transported from endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to Golgi and downstream compartments in the plant secretory pathway. Here, we describe a simple method to study membrane protein topology along the plant secretory pathway by transiently coexpressing a fluorescent protein (XFP)-tagged membrane protein and an ER export inhibitor protein, ARF1 (T31N), in tobacco BY-2 protoplast. By fractionation, microsome isolation, and trypsin digestion, membrane protein topology could be easily detected by either direct confocal microscopy imaging or western-blot analysis using specific XFP antibodies. A similar strategy in determining membrane protein topology could be widely adopted and applied to protein analysis in a broad range of eukaryotic systems, including yeast cells and mammalian cells.

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Guo, J., Miao, Y., & Cai, Y. (2017). Analysis of membrane protein topology in the plant secretory pathway. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1662, pp. 87–95). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7262-3_7

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