Purification of a ligand for the EPH-like receptor HEK using a biosensor-based affinity detection approach
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Publication Year 1996-03-19,Volume 93,Issue #6,Page 2523-2527
Journal Title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Publication Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Advances in screening technologies allowing the identification of growth factor receptors solely by virtue of DNA or protein sequence comparison call for novel methods to isolate corresponding ligand growth factors. The EPH-like receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) HEK (human EPH-like kinase) was identified previously as a membrane antigen on the LK63 human pre-B-cell line and overexpression in leukemic specimens and cell lines suggested a role in oncogenesis. We developed a biosensor-based approach using the immobilized HEK receptor exodomain to detect and monitor purification of the HEK ligand. A protein purification protocol, which included HEK affinity chromatography, achieved a 1.8 x 10(6)-fold purification of an approximate to 23-kDa protein from human placental conditioned medium. Analysis of specific sHEK (soluble extracellular domain of HEI) ligand interactions in the first and final purification steps suggested a ligand concentration of 40 pM in the source material and a K-d Of 2-3 nM. Since the purified ligand was N-terminally blocked, we generated tryptic peptides and N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis of 7 tryptic fragments of the S-pyridylethylated protein unequivocally matched the sequence for AL-1, a recently reported ligand for the related EPH-like RTK REK7 (Winslow, J. W., Moran, P., Valverde, J., Shih, A., Yuan, J. Q., Wong, S. C., Tsai, S.P., Goddard, A., Henzel, W.J., Hefti, F., Beck, K.D. & Caras, I. W. (1995) Neuron 14, 973-981). Our findings demonstrate the application of biosensor technology in ligand purification and show that AL-1, as has been found for other ligands of the EPH-like RTK family, binds more than one receptor.
Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
Keywords
PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASE; HUMAN INTERLEUKIN-6; GENE; FAMILY; IDENTIFICATION; EXPRESSION; CLONING; MEMBERS; CHICKEN; MOUSE
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Creation Date: 1996-03-19 12:00:00
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