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Filter Retardation Assay for Detecting and Quantifying Polyglutamine Aggregates Using Caenorhabditis elegans Lysates

使用秀丽隐杆线虫裂解液检测和定量聚谷氨酰胺聚集体的滤器延迟试验

Olga Sin Olga Sin
AM Alejandro Mata-Cabana
RS Renée I. Seinstra
EN Ellen A. A. Nollen

发布: 2018年10月05日第8卷第19期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3042 浏览次数: 9433

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Abstract

Protein aggregation is a hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases and is associated with impaired protein homeostasis. This imbalance is caused by the loss of the protein’s native conformation, which ultimately results in its aggregation or abnormal localization within the cell. Using a C. elegans model of polyglutamine diseases, we describe in detail the filter retardation assay, a method that captures protein aggregates in a cellulose acetate membrane and allows its detection and quantification by immunoblotting.

Keywords: Protein aggregation (蛋白质聚集) search Polyglutamine (多聚谷氨酰胺) search Amyloid (淀粉样蛋白) search Filter trap assay (过滤捕集试验) search Filter retardation assay (过滤阻滞测定) search Dot blot (斑点印迹) search C. elegans (秀丽隐杆线虫) search

Background

One pathological feature of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and polyglutamine diseases is the presence of protein aggregates in distinct areas of the brain (reviewed in Soto, 2003; Stroo et al., 2017). In the case of polyglutamine diseases, abnormal expansion of glutamine (CAG) repeats in the coding sequence disturbs the native folding of the protein. As a result, the misfolded protein exposes regions of its amino acid sequence, which makes it prone to aggregate with other proteins, forming large, insoluble aggregates that can hamper normal cellular function (reviewed in Kuiper et al., 2017).

Several methods have been developed for the detection of insoluble protein aggregates including, for instance, dye binding assays (e.g., Thioflavin T, Congo red, NIAD-4) and electron microscopy. Filter retardation assay is a quick and sensitive method that detects and quantifies protein aggregates formed in vivo and in vitro, including polyglutamine (Scherzinger et al., 1997; Wanker et al., 1999), alpha-synuclein (Recasens et al., 2018), and amyloid-beta aggregates (Bieschke et al., 2009). In this assay, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-resistant protein aggregates are filtered and retained in a cellulose acetate membrane, while monomeric intermediate species are not captured. The protein aggregates retained in the membrane are subsequently detected by antibodies, which allows for their quantification.

This protocol describes a method to detect and quantify SDS-resistant polyglutamine aggregates in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and can be applied to investigate the aggregation of aggregation-prone proteins in vivo and in vitro.

Materials and Reagents

  1. 200 µl pipette tips (Greiner Bio-one, catalog number: 741065 )
  2. 1000 µl pipette tips (Greiner Bio-one, catalog number: 741045 )
  3. 15 ml conical tubes (SARSTEDT, catalog number: 62.554.502 )
  4. 2 ml Screw cap tubes (SARSTEDT, catalog number: 72.693.105 )
  5. 0.5 mm Glass beads (Carl Roth, catalog number: N030.1 )
  6. 11.3 x 7.7 cm Bio-Dot/Bio-Dot SF Filter Paper (Bio-Rad Laboratories, catalog number: 1620161 )
  7. Cellulose acetate membranes, 0.22 micron, Sphaero (Sterlitech, catalog number: CA023001 )
  8. 1.5 ml microfuge tube (Greiner Bio One International, catalog number: 616201 )
  9. Rubber seal
  10. Plastic wrap
  11. 50 ml conical tube (SARSTEDT, catalog number: 62.547.004 )
  12. Worms
  13. PierceTM BCA Protein Assay Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, catalog number: 23227 )
  14. Complete protease inhibitors (Roche Diagnostics, catalog number: 11697498001 )
  15. ECLTM Prime Western Blotting Detection (GE Healthcare, Amersham, catalog number: RPN2232 )
  16. Liquid nitrogen
  17. Triton X-100 (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: T8787 )
  18. DL-Dithiothreitol (DTT) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: D0632 )
  19. 1 M Tris-HCl
  20. 5 M NaCl
  21. 10% SDS
  22. Milli-Q water
  23. Non-fat dry milk powder (Campina)
  24. Antibodies against green fluorescent protein (GFP)/yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) and tubulin (Table 1)

    Table 1. List of primary and secondary antibodies
    Primary antibody
    		Host
    		Company/catalog number
    		Dilution primary antibody
    		Secondary antibody
    α-GFP
    		Mouse
    TaKaRa Bio, 
    Clontech Laboratories ( 632381 )
    		1:5,000
    Anti-mouse (1:10,000)
    Bio-Rad ( 1706516 )
    α-tubulin
    		Mouse
    		Sigma-Aldrich ( T6074 )
    		1:5,000
    		Anti-mouse (1:10,000)
    Bio-Rad ( 1706516 )

  25. Sodium phosphate dibasic heptahydrate (Na2HPO4•7H2O) (Acros Organics, catalog number: 424380010 )
  26. Sodium chloride (NaCl) (Merck, catalog number: 1064041000 )
  27. Potassium chloride (KCl) (Fisher Chemicals, catalog number: 10010310 )
  28. 10x Phosphate buffered saline (PBS) (see Recipes)
  29. 1x PBS-Triton 0.1% (see Recipes)
  30. 1x PBS-Triton 0.05% (see Recipes)
  31. Filter trap assay (FTA) sample buffer (see Recipes)
  32. FTA wash buffer (see Recipes)
  33. 1 M dithiothreitol (DTT, see Recipes)
  34. Blocking solution (see Recipes)

Equipment

  1. P20 Pipetman (Gilson, catalog number: F123600 )
  2. P200 Pipetman (Gilson, catalog number: F123601 )
  3. P1000 Pipetman (Gilson, catalog number: F123602 )
  4. 30-300 μl multi-channel pipette (Eppendorf, catalog number: 3125000052 )
  5. 10 ml Serological glass pipettes (SARSTEDT, catalog number: 86.1254.001 )
  6. Centrifuge (Thermo Fisher Scientific, model: SL 40R , rotor: TX-750 )
  7. Bead beater (MP Biomedicals, model: FastPrep-24 )
  8. 48-well Bio-Dot Microfiltration System (Bio-Rad Laboratories, catalog number: 1703938 )
  9. Vacuum pump 
  10. 20 °C incubator (LIEBHERR, model: WK 4126 )
  11. Vortex (Fisher scientific, model: ZX Wizard vortex, catalog number: 11746744 )
  12. Fuji Super RX-N 13x18 film (Fujifilm, catalog number: RX1318 )
  13. Autoclave

Software

  1. ImageJ (Open source: https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/)
  2. Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA)

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Sin, O., Mata-Cabana, A., Seinstra, R. I. and Nollen, E. A. A. (2018). Filter Retardation Assay for Detecting and Quantifying Polyglutamine Aggregates Using Caenorhabditis elegans Lysates. Bio-protocol 8(19): e3042. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3042.

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