Monitoring post-translational modification of proteins with allosteric ribozymes
- 15 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Biotechnology
- Vol. 20 (8) , 810-815
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt719
Abstract
An allosteric hammerhead ribozyme activated specifically by the unphosphorylated form of the protein kinase ERK2 was created through a rational design strategy that relies on molecular recognition of ERK2 to decrease the formation of an alternate, inactive ribozyme conformer. Neither closely related mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) nor the phosphorylated form of ERK2 induced ribozyme activity. The ribozyme quantitatively detected ERK2 added to mammalian cell lysates and also functioned quantitatively in a multiplexed solution-phase assay. This same strategy was used to construct a second ribozyme selectively activated by the phosphorylated (active) form of ERK2. This approach is generally applicable to the development of ribozymes capable of monitoring post-translational modification of specific proteins.Keywords
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