A chemical tool for blue light-inducible proximity photo-crosslinking in live cells

Pratyush Kumar Mishra, Myeong Gyun Kang, Hakbong Lee, Seungjoon Kim, Subin Choi, Nirmali Sharma, Cheol Min Park, Jaewon Ko, Changwook Lee, Jeong Kon Seo, Hyun Woo Rhee

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Abstract

We developed a proximity photo-crosslinking method (Spotlight) with a 4-azido-N-ethyl-1,8-naphthalimide (AzNP) moiety that can be converted to reactive aryl nitrene species using ambient blue light-emitting diode light. Using an AzNP-conjugated HaloTag ligand (VL1), blue light-induced photo-crosslinked products of various HaloTag-conjugated proteins of interest were detected in subcellular spaces in live cells. Chemical or heat stress-induced dynamic changes in the proteome were also detected, and photo-crosslinking in the mouse brain tissue was enabled. Using Spotlight, we further identified the host interactome of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein, which is essential for viral genome assembly. Mass analysis of the VL1-crosslinked product of N-HaloTag in HEK293T cells showed that RNA-binding proteins in stress granules were exclusively enriched in the cross-linked samples. These results tell that our method can reveal the interactome of protein of interest within a short distance in live cells.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)955-966
Number of pages12
JournalChemical Science
Volume13
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Jan 2022

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