An in vivo crosslinking system for identifying mycobacterial protein-protein interactions.

J Microbiol Methods

Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom. Electronic address:

Published: October 2014

The analysis of protein-protein interactions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis has the potential to shed light on the functions of the large number of predicted open-reading frames annotated as conserved hypothetical proteins. We have developed a formaldehyde crosslinking system to detect in vivo interactions in mycobacteria. Our Gateway-adapted vector system uses three promoter strengths, including constitutive and regulatable versions, for the expression of target proteins with either an N- or C-terminal His-Strep-Strep tag. Tandem affinity purification using the His- and Strep-tags is well-suited to the isolation of protein complexes with a high purity and no detectable background. We have validated this approach using the well-described pyruvate dehydrogenase complex.

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