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Identifying Protein-protein Interaction in Drosophila Adult Heads by Tandem Affinity Purification TAP
Published on: December 5, 2013
Diurnal protein oscillation profiles in Drosophila head
Juan Du1, Yifan Zhang1, Yongbo Xue2
1Department of Entomology, MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
Circadian clocks control daily rhythms in physiology, metabolism and behaviour in most organisms. Proteome-wide analysis of protein oscillations is still lacking in Drosophila. In this study, the total protein and phosphorylated protein in Drosophila heads in a 24-h daily time-course were assayed by using the isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) method, and 10 and 7 oscillating proteins as well as 19 and 22 oscillating phosphoproteins in the w1118 control and ClkJrk mutant strains were separately identified. Lastly, we performed a mini screen to investigate the functions of some oscillating proteins in circadian locomotion rhythms. This study provides the first proteomic profiling of diurnally oscillating proteins in fly heads, thereby providing a basis for further mechanistic studies of these proteins in circadian rhythm.
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