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A Golden Gate-based Plasmid Library for the Rapid Assembly of Biotin Ligase Constructs for Proximity Labelling

Goslin, K.; Finocchio, A.; Wellmer, F.

2021-10-15 plant biology
10.1101/2021.10.15.464533 bioRxiv
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Proximity-labelling has emerged as a powerful tool for the detection of weak and transient interactions between proteins as well as the characterization of subcellular proteomes. One proximity labelling approach makes use of a promiscuous bacterial biotin ligase, termed BioID. Expression of BioID (or of its derivates TurboID and MiniTurbo) fused to a bait protein results in the biotinylation of proximal proteins. These biotinylated proteins can then be isolated by affinity purification using streptavidin-coated beads and identified by mass spectrometry. To facilitate the use of proximity-labelling in plants, we have generated a collection of constructs that can be used for the rapid cloning of TurboID and MiniTurbo fusion proteins using the Golden Gate cloning method. To allow for the use of the constructs in a range of experiments we have designed assembly modules that encode the biotin ligases fused to different linkers as well as different commonly used subcellular localization sequences. We demonstrate the functionality of these vectors through biotinylation assays in tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) plants.

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