Publications related to His-tag

Development of tools and methods for protein identification: From single molecules to in vivo applications

As the fundamental machinery orchestrating cellular functions, proteins influence the state of every cell profoundly. As cells exhibit significant variations from one to another, analyzing the proteome on a single-cell level is imperative to unravel their ...

EPFL2024

Site-Specific Protein Conjugation onto Fluorescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Shang-Jung Wu, Vitalijs Zubkovs, Nils Schürgers

Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are among the few photostable optical emitters that are ideal for sensing, imaging, drug delivery, and monitoring of protein activity. These applications often require strategies for immobilizing prote ...

2020

Single live cell monitoring of protein turnover reveals intercellular variability and cell cycle dependence of degradation rates

Andrea Brigitta Alber

Cells need to be able to precisely control their proteome composition in order to maintain homeostasis. This is of particular relevance in fast dividing cells, such as embryonic stem cells, since their global protein levels need to be doubled at each divis ...

EPFL2018

Dual optical control and mechanistic insights into photoswitchable group II and III metabotropic glutamate receptors

Johannes Broichhagen

G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling occurs in complex spatiotemporal patterns that are difficult to probe using standard pharmacological and genetic approaches. A powerful approach for dissecting GPCRs is to use light-controlled pharmacological age ...

National Academy of Sciences2017

Functional Characterization of the Mouse Olfactory Receptor mOR256-17 in Live Cells

Thamani Dahoun

Olfactory receptors (ORs) constitute the largest family of sensory membrane proteins in mammals. They play a key role within the olfactory system to recognize and discriminate a nearly unlimited number of structurally diverse odorant molecules. The molecul ...

EPFL2013

Structural Studies and Protein Engineering of Human O6-Alkylguanine-DNA Alkyltransferase

Birgit Mollwitz

The specific labeling of proteins with synthetic probes is a powerful approach to study protein function and protein tags have been widely used for this purpose. A well-established example for a self-labeling protein tag is SNAP-tag. It specifically reacts ...

EPFL2012

Characterization of semisynthetic and naturally Nα-acetylated α-synuclein in vitro and in intact cells: implications for aggregation and cellular properties of α-synuclein

Hilal Lashuel, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet, Mohamed Bilal Fares

N-terminal acetylation is a very common post-translational modification, although its role in regulating protein physical properties and function remains poorly understood. α-Synuclein (α-syn), a protein that has been linked to the pathogenesis of Parkinso ...

Amer Soc Biochemistry Molecular Biology Inc2012

Large-Scale Transfection of Mammalian Cells

Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Carine Meerschman

The large-scale transfection of mammalian cells allows moderate (milligram to gram) amounts of recombinant proteins (r-proteins) to be obtained for fundamental or clinical research. In this article, we describe a one-liter transfection using polyethyleneim ...

Humana Press2011

Electrochemical and Electrokinetic Tools for Surface Activity Characterization and Proteomics Analysis

Fernando Cortes Salazar

Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) has developed into an excellent and versatile technique to image heterogeneous chemical reactivities on a surface. Therefore SECM applications cover a wide range of different fields such as biology and forensic sc ...

EPFL2010

Photoactivatable Probes for Protein Labeling

Sambashiva Banala

Over the last decade, several protein tags have been developed for the specific and covalent labeling of fusion proteins with small organic probes. Among them, SNAP-tag has been used in many applications such as live cell imaging, protein microarrays and t ...

EPFL2010

Adsorbed protein detection by scanning electrochemical microscopy

Hubert Girault, Fernando Cortes Salazar

A scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) protein detection methodology has been developed based on the tagging of free cysteines and other nucleophiles in proteins and peptides by benzoquinone. The tagged proteins are detected by the mediated reduction ...

2009

Chemical probes shed light on fusion proteins

Kai Johnsson

Site-specific protein labeling with synthetic dyes is an emerging technique for live cell imaging. A protein or peptide tag fused to the protein of interest provides the means for attachment of a fluorophore or other small molecule probe, to allow non-inva ...

2007

Strategy To Tether Organometallic Ruthenium-Arene Anticancer Compounds to Recombinant Human Serum Albumin

Paul Joseph Dyson, Wee Han Ang, Elisa Daldini

In order to utilize macromols. for drug targeting and delivery, a strategy to tether organometallic ruthenium-arene drugs to carrier protein mols. was developed. The approach involves the design of a drug fragment capable of conjugating to linker mols. on ...

2007

Transient gene expression in suspension HEK-293 cells: application to large-scale protein production

Florian Maria Wurm, Lucia Baldi Unser, Natalie Muller, Philippe Pierre Girard

Recent advances in genomics, proteomics, and structural biology raised the general need for significant amounts of pure recombinant protein (r-protein). Because of the difficulty in obtaining in some cases proper protein folding in bacteria, several method ...

2005

Adding value to fusion proteins through covalent labeling

Kai Johnsson, Thomas Gronemeyer

A review. Recombinant proteins are often expressed with an addnl. polypeptide the role of which is to aid purifn., detection, or functional studies. Recently, the role of these tags has been extended to mediate the labeling of the protein of interest with ...

2005

On-Line Counting of Cysteine Residues in Peptides during Electrospray Ionization by Electrogenerated Tags and Their Application to Protein Identification

Hubert Girault, Niels Erik Lion, Christophe Roussel, Loïc Dayon, Michel Prudent

The electrochemically induced mass spectrometric tagging of cysteines by substituted hydroquinones was studied for peptides in a classical electrospray solvent (i.e., MeOH/H2O/AcOH 50/49/1). The tagging efficiency was tested with different hydroquinone com ...

2005