Screening for nitric oxide-dependent protein-protein interactions - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2003 Aug 1;301(5633):657-61.

doi: 10.1126/science.1079319.

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Screening for nitric oxide-dependent protein-protein interactions

Akio Matsumoto et al. Science. 2003.

Abstract

Because nitric oxide (NO) may be a ubiquitous regulator of cellular signaling, we have modified the yeast two-hybrid system to explore the possibility of NO-dependent protein-protein interactions. We screened for binding partners of procaspase-3, a protein implicated in apoptotic signaling pathways, and identified multiple NO-dependent interactions.Two such interactions, with acid sphingomyelinase and NO synthase, were shown to occur in mammalian cells dependent on endogenous NO. Nitrosylation may thus provide a broad-based mechanism for regulating interactions between proteins. If so, systematic proteomic analyses in which redox state and NO bioavailability are carefully controlled will reveal a large array of novel interactions.

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