A Simple, Semi-Quantitative Acyl Biotin Exchange-Based Method to Detect Protein S-Palmitoylation Levels

Protein S-palmitoylation is a reversible post-translational lipidation in which palmitic acid (16:0) is added to protein cysteine residue by a covalent thioester bond. This modification plays an active role in membrane targeting of soluble proteins, protein–protein interaction, protein trafficking, and subcellular localization. Moreover, palmitoylation is related to different diseases, such as neurodegenerative pathologies, cancer, and developmental defects. The aim of this research is to provide a straightforward and sensitive procedure to detect protein palmitoylation based on Acyl Biotin Exchange (ABE) chemistry. Our protocol setup consists of co-immunoprecipitation of native proteins (i.e., CD63), followed by the direct detection of palmitoylation on proteins immobilized on polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes. With respect to the conventional ABE-based protocol, we optimized and validated a rapid semi-quantitative assay that is shown to be significantly more sensitive and highly reproducible.

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