Using FRET to Study The Interaction Domain of TLR4 Binding to MD-2 in Living Cells
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This work was supported by grants from Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) (IRT0731), Joint Fund of NSFC with the Government of Guangdong Province (U0632004) and The National Natural Science Foundation of China (30270538, 30670829).

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    TLR4-MD-2 complex plays a key role in LPS recognition and its signal transduction. These steps are the vital elements of the host’s defensive reaction. Studying the functional domain of TLR4 and MD-2 is very important to further understand the mechanism of LPS signal transduction. It was studied the interaction domain of TLR4 and MD-2 in living cells based on gene mutation, gene transfection and fluorescence resonance energy tramsfer(FRET) which is considered as one of the best methods used for intracellular protein-protein interaction study. CY-15P which was fused by CFP and YFP through 15 neutral amino acids was used as positive control, while co-expressed CFP and YFP proteins were used as negative control. The results showed that the ability of TLR4 binding to MD-2 decreased dramatically after the deletion of Glu24~Met41 in N terminal of TLR4. Aggregation of TLR4 to LPS stimulation was observed, however, TLR4 without the Glu24~Met41 mutation did not aggregate. All these results indicated that TLR4 Glu24~Met41 might be the interaction domain of TLR4 binding to MD-2 and participate in the aggregation effect of TLR4 upon LPS stimulation.

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ZHONG Tian-Yu, TANG Jing, CHEN Deng-Yu, LIU Ya-Wei, WANG Wei, LIU Jing-Hua, JIANG Yong. Using FRET to Study The Interaction Domain of TLR4 Binding to MD-2 in Living Cells[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,2009,36(11):1451-1457

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  • Received:April 17,2009
  • Revised:June 26,2009
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  • Online: June 30,2009
  • Published: November 20,2009