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Pooled endogenous protein tagging and recruitment for systematic profiling of protein function

  • Cell Genom. 2024 Oct 9;4(10):100651. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100651.
Yevgeniy V Serebrenik 1,  Deepak Mani 1,  Timothé Maujean 2,  George M Burslem 3,  Ophir Shalem 4
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Affiliations

  • 1 Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
  • 2 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Epigenetics Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
  • 3 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Epigenetics Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: george.burslem@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
  • 4 Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: shalemo@upenn.edu.
PMID: 39255790 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100651
Abstract

The emerging field of induced proximity therapeutics, which involves designing molecules to bring together an effector and target protein-typically to induce target degradation-is rapidly advancing. However, its progress is constrained by the lack of scalable and unbiased tools to explore effector-target protein interactions. We combine pooled endogenous gene tagging using a ligand-binding domain with generic small-molecule-based recruitment to screen for induction of protein proximity. We apply this methodology to identify effectors for degradation in two orthogonal screens: using fluorescence to monitor target levels and a cellular growth that depends on the degradation of an essential protein. Our screens revealed new effector proteins for degradation, including previously established examples, and converged on members of the C-terminal-to-LisH (CTLH) complex. We introduce a platform for pooled induction of endogenous protein-protein interactions to expand our toolset of effector proteins for protein degradation and Other forms of induced proximity.

Keywords

CTLH; WDR26; functional proteomics; induced proximity; pooled tagging; targeted protein degradation.

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