Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) Assay for Determination of Molecular Interactions in Living Cells
采用生物发光共振能量转移（BRET）技术测定活细胞中分子的相互作用
发布: 2017年11月20日第7卷第22期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2904 浏览次数: 22840
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Abstract
The bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) assay can be used as an indicator of molecular approximation and/or interaction. A significant resonance energy transfer signal is generated when the acceptor, having the appropriate spectral overlap with the donor emission, is approximated with the donor. In the example provided, proteins tagged with bioluminescent Renilla luciferase (Rlu) as donor and yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) as acceptor were co-expressed in cells. This pair of donor and acceptor have an approximate Förster distance of 4.4 nm, providing the optimal working distance (Dacres et al., 2010). This technique can be used to explore the time-course of specific molecular interactions that occur in living cells.
Keywords: BRET assay (BRET测定法)
Molecular approximation/interaction (分子近似/相互作用)
Renilla luciferase (海肾荧光素酶)
Yellow fluorescent protein (黄色荧光蛋白)
Coelenterazine h (腔肠素h)
Background
Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) studies, using a bioluminescence donor and a fluorescence acceptor, can monitor molecular interactions (such as between labeled proteins, peptides, or small molecules) occurring in real time in living cells. This approach is dependent on spatial approximation between the donor and acceptor, as well as appropriate spectral overlap to yield a meaningful signal (Figure 1). The example currently provided utilizes a Rlu-tagged protein as the donor and a YFP-tagged protein as acceptor (Harikumar et al., 2007). This has been very successfully applied to establish the presence of physiologically-relevant protein-protein interactions in the plasma membrane of living cells. It is important, however, to include controls for levels of expression that could cause non-specific protein-protein approximation and energy transfer (bystander effect), such as the use of similar levels of expression of a known non-associated protein. Also, competition with an unlabeled protein can help to establish the saturability of the interaction and the specificity of the signal. 
Figure 1. Illustration of relevant events in a BRET experiment in a living cell. The energy transfer reaction is initiated by adding the luciferase substrate, coelenterazine-h, to cells expressing both molecules tagged with Rlu (donor) and with yellow fluorescent protein (acceptor). The Rlu emits light with a wavelength of approximately 475 nm that then excites the YFP to emit light at approximately 525 nm that can be quantified to represent the BRET signal. The approximate Fӧrster distance for this pair of donor-acceptor is approximately 4.4 nm.
Materials and Reagents
- Pipette tips (USA Scientific, catalog number: 1111-1700 )
- 100-mm tissue culture grade plastic plates (SARSTEDT, catalog number: 83.3902 )
- 5 ml tissue culture tubes (Corning, Falcon®, catalog number: 352052 )
- Cell culture flasks (Corning, catalog number: 3056 )
- 96-well OptiPlates (PerkinElmer, catalog number: 6005290 )
- 15 ml conical tube (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thermo ScientificTM, catalog number: 339650 )
- Pasteur pipette (Fisher Scientific, catalog number: 13-678-20B )
- Rapid flow bottle-top filter unit with polyethersulfone (PES) membrane (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thermo ScientificTM, catalog number: 595-3320 )
- PS1/PS2-deleted HTL cells
Note: This cell line was derived by Xu et al., 2016, utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 to delete PS1/PS2 from HTL cells, representing a cell line derived from HEK293 cells by Barnea and Axel who stably integrated a luciferase reporter under the control of the bacterial operator element tetO. These cells were used in this case to correlate with specific functional assays requiring a specialized cell type. In a general protocol, any transfectable cell type is fine.
- Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium powder (DMEM) (Thermo Fisher Scientific, GibcoTM, catalog number: 12100-038 ) (see Recipe 6 for media preparation)
- Fetal Clone II supplement, a bovine serum product (GE Healthcare, HycloneTM, catalog number: SH30066.03 )
- Trypsin 0.25%-EDTA (Thermo Fisher Scientific, GibcoTM, catalog number: 25200056 ) diluted to 0.05% with 1x Dulbecco’s phosphate buffered saline, pH 6.80
- DEAE-dextran hydrochloride (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: D9885 )
- Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) (Fisher Biotech, catalog number: BP231-1 )
- Chloroquine diphosphate salt (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: C6628 )
- Enzyme-free cell dissociation solution (EMD Millipore, catalog number: S-014-C )
- Sodium phosphate dibasic (Na2HPO4) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: S0876 )
- Potassium phosphate monobasic (KH2PO4) (Fisher Scientific, catalog number: P285 )
- Sodium chloride (NaCl) (Fisher Scientific, catalog number: S671-500 )
- Potassium chloride (KCl) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: P9541 )
- HEPES (Research Products International, catalog number: H75030-1000 )
- Magnesium sulfate heptahydrate (MgSO4·7H2O) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: M1880 )
- Calcium chloride dihydrate (CaCl2·2H2O) (Fisher Scientific, catalog number: C79-500 )
- Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) (VWR, catalog number: BDH7247-1 )
- Coelenterazine-h (AAT Bioquest, catalog number: 21165 ) (see Recipe 5 for preparation of stock solution)
- Methanol (Honeywell International, catalog number: 24229 )
- Penicillin-streptomycin (Thermo Fisher Scientific, GibcoTM, catalog number: 15140122 )
- Sodium bicarbonate (Fisher Scientific, catalog number: BP328-500 )
- Hydrochloric acid (HCl) (Fisher Scientific, catalog number: A144-212 )
- 10x phosphate-buffered saline (PBS buffer) (see Recipes)
- 10x Kreb’s-Ringers-HEPES stock solution (10x KRH) (see Recipes)
- 50x CaCl2 stock solution (see Recipes)
- 1x KRH working solution (see Recipes)
- Coelenterazine-h solution (see Recipes)
- 1x DMEM tissue culture medium (see Recipes)
Equipment
- 37 °C, 5% CO2 incubator (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thermo ScientificTM, model: FormaTM Series II 3110 Water-Jacketed)
- Cell culture microscope (Fisher Scientific)
- Micropipettes (Gilson)
- 2103 EnVision Plate Reader (PerkinElmer, model: 2103 EnVisionTM )
- Centrifuge (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thermo ScientificTM, model: SorvallTM LegendTM XT/XF centrifuge , catalog number : 75216362)
- 500 ml screw-cap autoclaved glass bottles (WHEATON, catalog number: 219759 )
Software
- GraphPad Prism 6 (GraphPad Software, Inc. USA)
Procedure
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Readers should cite both the Bio-protocol article and the original research article where this protocol was used:
- Harikumar, K. G., Yan, Y., Xu, T., Melcher, K., Xu, H. E. and Miller, L. J. (2017). Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) Assay for Determination of Molecular Interactions in Living Cells. Bio-protocol 7(22): e2904. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2904.
- Yan, Y., Xu, T. H., Harikumar, K. G., Miller, L. J., Melcher, K. and Xu, H. E. (2017a). Dimerization of the transmembrane domain of amyloid precursor protein is determined by residues around the gamma-secretase cleavage sites. J Biol Chem, 292: 15826-15837.
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