RAG and HMGB1 proteins: purification and biochemical analysis of recombination signal complexes.

Abstract:

:Two lymphoid cell-specific proteins, called RAG-1 and RAG-2, initiate the process of antigen receptor gene rearrangement, termed V(D)J recombination, by assembling a protein-DNA complex with two recombination signal sequences (RSSs), each of which adjoins a different receptor gene segment, and then introducing a DNA double strand break at the end of each RSS. The study of RAG-RSS complex assembly and activity has been facilitated by the development of methods to purify the RAG proteins and members of the HMG-box family of high mobility group proteins such as HMGB1 that promote RAG binding and cleavage activity in vitro. This chapter describes the purification of recombinant truncated and full-length RAG-1 and RAG-2 expressed transiently in mammalian cells, as well as the purification of bacterially expressed full-length HMGB1. In addition, it details several experimental procedures used in our laboratory to study RAG-RSS complex formation and function in vitro.

journal_name

Methods Enzymol

journal_title

Methods in enzymology

authors

Bergeron S,Anderson DK,Swanson PC

doi

10.1016/S0076-6879(06)08032-3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-01-01 00:00:00

pages

511-28

eissn

0076-6879

issn

1557-7988

pii

S0076-6879(06)08032-3

journal_volume

408

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