Chakraborty, A. A. , Tansey, W. P. (June 2009) Inference of cell cycle-dependent proteolysis by laser scanning cytometry. Experimental Cell Research, 315 (10). pp. 1772-1778.
Abstract
Mechanisms that couple protein turnover to cell cycle progression are critical for coordinating the events of cell duplication and division. Despite the importance of cell cycle-regulated proteolysis, however, technologies to measure this phenomenon are limited, and typically involve monitoring cells that are released back into the cell cycle after synchronization. We describe here the use of laser scanning cytometry (LSC), a technical merger between fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry, to determine cell cycle-dependent changes in protein stability in unperturbed, asynchronous, cultures of mammalian cells. In this method, the ability of the LSC to accurately measure whole cell fluorescence is employed, together with RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization and immunofluorescence, to relate abundance of a particular RNA and protein in a cell to its point at the cell cycle. Parallel monitoring of RNA and protein levels is used, together with protein synthesis inhibitors, to reveal cell cycle-specific changes in protein turnover. We demonstrate the viability of this method by analyzing the proteolysis of two prominent human oncoproteins, Myc and Cyclin E, and argue that this LSC-based approach offers several practical advantages over traditional cell synchronization methods.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Laser scanning cytometry Cell cycle Proteolysis Myc Cyclin E |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics Investigative techniques and equipment bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > proteolysis |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Tansey lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 10 June 2009 |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2013 21:27 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2013 21:27 |
| PMCID: | PMC2680938 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/27397 |
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