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Efficient proximity labeling in living cells and organisms with TurboID

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Branon, Tess C, Bosch, Justin A, Sanchez, Ariana D, Udeshi, Namrata D, Svinkina, Tanya, Carr, Steven A, Feldman, Jessica L, Perrimon, Norbert +1 more·2018·Nature Biotechnology

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Protein interaction networks and protein compartmentalization underlie all signaling and regulatory processes in cells. Enzyme-catalyzed proximity labeling (PL) has emerged as a new approach to study the spatial and interaction characteristics of proteins in living cells. However, current PL methods require over 18 h of labeling time or utilize chemicals with limited cell permeability or high toxicity. We used yeast display-based directed evolution to engineer two promiscuous mutants of biotin ligase, TurboID and miniTurbo, which catalyze PL with much greater efficiency than BioID or BioID2, and enable 10-min PL in cells with non-toxic and easily deliverable biotin. Furthermore, TurboID extends biotin-based PL to flies and worms.

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Branon, T. C., Bosch, J. A., Sanchez, A. D., Udeshi, N. D., Svinkina, T., Carr, S. A., Feldman, J. L., Perrimon, N., & Ting, A. Y.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Ting, Alice Y
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2018-08-20
Volume
36
Issue
9
Pages
880-887
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W2888618670
Cited by
2,174
References
70
Citations by year
2026: 406 · 2025: 402 · 2024: 392 · 2023: 281 · 2022: 241 · 2021: 219 · 2020: 139 · 2019: 69 · 2018: 22 · 2014: 1
FWCI
62.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
  • Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
  • Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • National Institutes of Health (1dp2gm119136-01, NIH-R01)
  • National Cancer Institute (U24CA210986, R01CA186568)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007276, DP2 GM119136)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Biotin and Related Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biophysics › Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Click Chemistry and Applications
Keywords
proximity labeling, TurboID, biotin ligase, enzyme engineering, directed evolution, yeast surface display, protein-protein interaction, protein compartmentalization, BioID, biotinylation, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans, live-cell imaging
MeSH terms
Catalysis, Enzymes, Mutation, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Protein Interaction Mapping, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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