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Genome-wide Analysis using ChIP to Identify Isoform-specific Gene Targets
Published on: July 7, 2010
Regulation of PLCbeta isoforms by Rac
Jason T Snyder1, Mark R Jezyk, Svetlana Gershburg
1Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, USA.
Abstract:
Small GTPases function as molecular switches, which transduce cellular signals from upstream regulators to downstream effectors in a guanine nucleotide-dependent manner. Direct binding partners of small GTPases fall into four classes of both regulators and effectors that can be differentiated on the basis of the state of nucleotide required for binding. Here we describe a procedure for the rapid screening and quantitative assessment of direct interactions of the Rho family of small GTPases with effector molecules of the phospholipase Cbeta class of enzymes using surface plasmon resonance technology. The experimental format described is also readily adaptable toward characterizing guanine nucleotide-dependent binding events of both small and heterotrimeric G proteins with various classes of GTPase regulatory proteins.
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