Experimental Methods

FLAG-GFP-Paxillin phosphorylation site summary


Peptides - pax_c18_inhib.aln

                                                                                                               
PAXI_CHICK mdykddddkgpkgtvskGEELFTGVVPILVELDGDVNGHKfsvsgegegdatygkltlkficttgklpvpwptlvttltygvqcfsrYPDHMKQHDFFKS
All Expts                                                                                                      
C18_INHIB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                            GEELFTGVVPILVELDGDVNGHK                                                           S                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                  YPDHMKQHDFFK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                               
PAXI_CHICK AMPEGYVQERTIFFKddgnyktraevkFEGDTLVNRielkGIDFKEDGNILGHKleynynshnvyimadkqkngikvnfkirHNIEDGSVQLADHYQQNT
All Expts                                                                                                      
C18_INHIB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
           AMPEGYVQER                 FEGDTLVNR                                              HNIEDGSVQLADHYQQNT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
                     TIFFK                              EDGNILGHK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

                                                               1       10        20        30        40        
PAXI_CHICK PIGDGPVLLPDNHYLSTQSALSKdpnekrDHMVLLEFVTAAGITLGMDELYKMDDLDALLADLESTTSHISKRPVFLTEETPYSYPTGNHTYQEIAVPPP
All Expts                                                                                    *                 
C18_INHIB                                                                                    *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
           PIGDGPVLLPDNHYLSTQSALSK                              DDLDALLADLESTTSHISK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                        DHMVLLEFVTAAGITLGMDELYK                    RPVFLTEETPYSYPTGNHTYQEIAVPPP                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

           50        60        70        80        90       100       110       120       130       140        
PAXI_CHICK VPPPPSSEALNGTVIDPLDQWQPSVSRYGHQQPQSQSPIYSSSAKSSSASVPRDGLSSPSPRASEEEHVYSFPNKQKSAEPSPTMTSTSLGSNLSELDRL
All Expts                                    * *  **    []] *       * *   *     **      *   *      *           
C18_INHIB                                      *  *         *       * *         *       *   *      *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                                      YGHQQPQSQSPIYSSSAK        DGLSSPSPR             QKSAEPSPTMTSTSLGSNLSELDR                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
           VPPPPSSEALNGTVIDPLDQWQPSVSR                  SSSASVPR         ASEEEHVYSFPNK                        L                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

          150       160       170       180       190       200       210       220       230       240        
PAXI_CHICK LLELNAVQHNPPSGFSADEVSRSPSLPNVTGPHYVIPESSSSAGGKaapptkekpkrnggrGIEDVRPSVESLLDELESSVPSPVPAITVSQGEVSSPQR
All Expts                 *      * *        *    [  ]                                    []  *       *     *   
C18_INHIB                 *      * *        *                                                *             *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                 SPSLPNVTGPHYVIPESSSSAGGK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
           LLELNAVQHNPPSGFSADEVSR                                       GIEDVRPSVESLLDELESSVPSPVPAITVSQGEVSSPQR                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

          250       260       270       280       290       300       310       320       330       340        
PAXI_CHICK VNASQQQTRISASSATRELDELMASLSDFKFMAQGKAGGSSSPPSTTPKPGSQLDTMLGSLQSDLNKLGVATVAKGVCGACKKPIAGQVVTAMGKTWHPE
All Expts            *                              *                                                          
C18_INHIB            *                              *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
           VNASQQQTR        ELDELMASLSDFK      AGGSSSPPSTTPKPGSQLDTMLGSLQSDLNK        GVCGACKKPIAGQVVTAMGK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                    ISASSATR             FMAQGK                               LGVATVAK                    TWHPE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

          350       360       370       380       390       400       410       420       430       440        
PAXI_CHICK HFVCTHCQEEIGSRNFFERDGQPYCEKDYHNLFSPRCYYCNGPILDKVVTALDRTWHPEHFFCAQCGVFFGPEGFHEKdgkaycrKDYFDMFAPKcggca
All Expts                                   *                                                                  
C18_INHIB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                         NFFER                 CYYCNGPILDK       TWHPEHFFCAQCGVFFGPEGFHEK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
           HFVCTHCQEEIGSR             DYHNLFSPR           VVTALDR                               KDYFDMFAPK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

          450       460       470       480       490       500       510       520       530       540        
PAXI_CHICK rAILENYISALNTLWHPECFVCRecftpfingsffehdgqpycevhyherRGSLCSGCQKPITGRcitamgkKFHPEHFVCAFCLKqlnkGTFKEQNDKP
All Expts                                                      *                                               
C18_INHIB                                                      *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
            AILENYISALNTLWHPECFVCR                                                 KFHPEHFVCAFCLK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                             RGSLCSGCQKPITGR                             EQNDKP                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

          550         
PAXI_CHICK YCQNCFLKlfc
All Expts             
C18_INHIB                                           
                                                    
           YCQNCFLK                                 


Legend
*Phosphorylated sites are denoted by an asterisk below the amino acid residue.
[ ] The specific phosphorylated amino acid between the brackets can not be distinguished by the MS/MS spectra.
All Expts A summary of all phosphorylation sites detected on this molecule from all experiments.
C18_INHIB, C18,
IMAC_INHIB, IMAC
Analysis type.
Alternating, aligned peptides represent protein coverage for this experiment
Lower case amino acids have yet to be detected in any enzymatic digest analyzed by mass spectrometry.


FLAG-GFP-Paxillin (C18, + inhibs)

1.5-2e7 HEK cells were transiently transfected with 10 ng FLAG-GFP-Paxillin DNA and 4 ug pBS (empty vector). Cells were treated for 30 min with 1 mM peroxovandate and 10 nM Calyculin A prior to lysis, and extracted for 30 min at 4degC in 25mM Tris, 100 mM NaCl, 0.5% NP-40, 1 mM peroxovanadate, 10 nM Calyculin A. Pre-cleared once with 30 uL non-specific IgG agarose for 1 hr at 4degC. Repeated preclear overnight. Immunoprecipitation (IP) was with 100 uL anti-FLAG IgG agarose beads slurry for 1.5 hr at 4degC. Washed IP 2X with 200 uL 25mM Tris, 100 mM NaCl, pH 7.4 10 min each. 10-15% of the IP was used to visualize purity by silver-stained gel. On-beads digestion of 40% of the IP was with 100 mM ammonium bicarbonate pH 8 and 500 ng trypsin. Reverse phase (RP) C18 separation of a digest aliquot corresponding to 2% of the original immunoprecipitated paxillin was over a 1 hr gradient and coupled with online detection of peptides by ESI tandem mass spectrometry (Thermo Electron, LTQ-FTMS).