Non-Reducing SDS PAGE: A Method to Analyze Disulfide-Linked Multimeric Protein Complexes

Published: April 30, 2023

Abstract

Source: Rotoli, S. M. et al., Combining Non-reducing SDS-PAGE Analysis and Chemical Crosslinking to Detect Multimeric Complexes Stabilized by Disulfide Linkages in Mammalian Cells in Culture. J. Vis. Exp. (2019).

This video describes the technique of separating the protein samples by non-reducing SDS-PAGE to analyze the multimeric protein complexes. This technique retains the multimer subunits of a protein held by the disulfide bonds which can later be analyzed by western blotting.

Protocol

1. Blocking Free Cysteine Residues Using Iodoacetamide Grow U-2 OS cells in a 6 cm2 dish to 50%–60% confluency in minimum essential medium with high glucose containing 10% fetal bovine serum and 1% sodium pyruvate at 37 °C in 5% CO2. Make a fresh stock of 10 mM iodoacetamide just prior to use, then discard any unused reagent. Add 0.1 mM final concentration iodoacetamide directly to the cell culture media. Gently rock the dish at …

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Materials

16% precast TGX gels   ThermoFisher Xp00160
Bromophenol Blue
BSA  Cell signaling 99985
Cell lysis buffer  Cell signaling 9803
Centrifuge Eppendorf 5415D
DMEM  Gibco  11330-032
EDTA   Sigma Aldrich M101
Electrophoresis apparatus   Invitrogen A25977
Fetal bovine serum   Gibco 1932693
Formaldehyde ThermoFisher  28908
Glass-teflon homogenizer
Glycerol  Sigma Aldrich  65516
Glycine  RPI  636050
Hepes  Sigma Aldrich  H0527
Iodoacetamide  ThermoFisher 90034
PBS   Sigma Aldrich P3813
Power supply   Biorad 200120
Prestained marker   ThermoFisher 26619
SDS Biorad  161-0302
Sonicator  Branson 450
Tris Base RPI  T60040
Tris Buffered Saline Sigma Aldrich SRE0031 with Tween 20, pH 7.5 
Tris-Glycine running buffer  VWR  J61006
Triton X-100  Sigma Aldrich  T8787
U-2 OS  ATCC  HTB-96

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Non-Reducing SDS PAGE: A Method to Analyze Disulfide-Linked Multimeric Protein Complexes. J. Vis. Exp. (Pending Publication), e21116, doi: (2023).

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