Efficient screening of ligand-receptor complex formation using fluorescence labeling and size-exclusion chromatography.
Evidence of a complex formation is a crucial step in the structural studies of ligand-receptor interactions. Here we presented a simple and fast approach for qualitative screening of the complex formation between the chimeric extracellular domain of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7-ECD) and three-finger proteins. Complex formation of snake toxins α-Bgtx and WTX, as well as of recombinant analogs of human proteins Lynx1 and SLURP-1, with α7-ECD was confirmed using fluorescently labeled ligands and size-exclusion chromatography with simultaneous absorbance and fluorescence detection. WTX/α7-ECD complex formation also was confirmed by cryo-EM. The proposed approach could easily be adopted to study the interaction of other receptors with their ligands.
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