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Fluorescence Leakage Assay to Study Cell-Penetrating Peptide Interaction with Membrane
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2025
This video discusses the fluorescence leakage assay to study the interactions of cell-penetrating peptides with cell membranes using cell membrane mimics — large unilamellar vesicles, or LUVs, encapsulated with a fluorescent dye and a quencher.
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Biotinylated Cell-Penetrating Peptide Probe to Detect Protein-Protein Interactions
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2025
This video demonstrates a technique that uses biotinylated cell-penetrating peptides to detect intracellular protein-protein interactions. The cell-penetrating peptides facilitate the conjugated peptide to enter a cell and specifically bind to its interacting proteins. The biotin, after binding to avidin, allows purification of the interacting proteins’ complex from a cell lysate.
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On-Membrane Protein Digestion to Prepare Co-Immunoprecipitated Proteins for Interaction Studies
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2025
This video demonstrates co-immunoprecipitated protein complexes on a PVDF membrane for protein-protein interaction analysis. The reduced proteins from complexes were treated with trypsin to cleave the individual proteins at the smaller peptides, then, the remaining peptides were extracted from the PVDF membrane. The pulled peptide derived from both proteins in the complex was then dried and resuspended in a low concentration of formic acid for further analysis.
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Protein Membrane Overlay Assay: A Protocol to Test Interaction Between Soluble and Insoluble Proteins in vitro
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2011
Testing protein-protein interaction is indispensable for dissection of protein functionality. Here, we introduce an in vitro protein-protein binding assay to probe a membrane-immobilized protein with a soluble protein. This assay provides a reliable method to test interaction between an insoluble protein and a protein in solution.
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Identifying Protein-protein Interaction Sites Using Peptide Arrays
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Cited by 18 •
2014
Peptide array screening is a high throughput assay for identifying protein-protein interaction sites. This allows mapping multiple interactions of a target protein and can serve as a method for identifying sites for inhibitors that target a protein. Here we describe a protocol for screening and analyzing peptide arrays.
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The balance of charged and hydrophobic residues strongly influences how a peptide approaches a lipid bilayer. Electrostatic attraction favors recruitment to membranes carrying opposite charges, whereas hydrophobic residues support closer association with the lipid interior. Consequently, changes in sequence can shift a peptide from surface binding toward insertion, membrane reorganization, or destabilization.
Lipid composition determines the physical and chemical environment encountered by a peptide. Charged lipids can enhance electrostatic recruitment, while other membrane components influence whether hydrophobic residues remain associated with the surface or enter the bilayer. Comparing membranes with different compositions helps separate peptide-specific effects from properties caused by the lipid environment itself.
Membrane-associated peptides do not have a single outcome. Depending on peptide characteristics and bilayer composition, binding may remain at the surface, progress to penetration, reorganize nearby lipids, or destabilize the membrane. In some cases, insertion is associated with pore formation. These distinct structural effects help explain how peptides alter cellular function rather than merely attaching to membranes.
These analyses focus on how peptides associate with lipid bilayers and how that association changes membrane structure. Experimental approaches can evaluate peptide–lipid binding and membrane effects, while computational analyses help examine interaction mechanisms in molecular detail. Using both perspectives supports comparisons among peptide sequences and membrane compositions and clarifies links between binding and functional outcomes.
The topic is particularly relevant when peptide activity depends on contact with cellular membranes. It provides context for antimicrobial peptide activity, membrane-associated signaling, toxin action, and peptide transport across cells. Examining the underlying interactions helps connect molecular behavior at the lipid bilayer to broader biological outcomes, including changes in membrane structure and cellular function.
Knowledge of peptide–lipid binding can guide the development of therapeutic peptides and delivery systems by relating peptide properties to membrane association, insertion, or disruption. The same principles also support biomimetic membrane design, where controlled lipid environments are used to study or reproduce relevant biological interactions. These applications depend on matching peptide characteristics with the intended membrane response.