Dictyostelium myosin isolation (three day protocol)

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Procedure

Note: This protocol is to make myosin from 3 liters of culture.

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Day -3

1. Seed 3 L HL5 in 6L flask with cells to minimum density 5 x 10⁴ cells/ml.

Day -1

1. Put 70.1 Ti rotor in cold room.
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3. Make:
   • 3 L DB
   • 4 L Assembly buffer
   Store in the cold room.
   

Day 1

1. Count cells. Use at least 3 x 10⁹ cells for prep.
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3. Precool J6, Sorvall RC, and Beckman centrifuges and SS34 and 70.1 Ti rotors.
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5. Pour cells in 1 L bottles, balance.
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7. Spin down cells at 3k rpm in J6 at 4¡C for 7 min, brake 8.
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9. Dump media, resuspend cells in 500 ml cold DB per liter cells, pool in 2 bottles, balance, spin as before.
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11. Repeat DB wash again.
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13. Resuspend cells in about 100 ml DB, transfer to cold 50 ml conical tubes, balance, spin as before in J6.
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15. Measure cell pellet volume, resuspend in two times cell volume of Sonication buffer.
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17. Dilute 10 µl cells in 90 µl DB and examine under hemacytometer.
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19. Transfer cells to cold plastic beaker on ice water.
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21. Using medium tip set at 30% output, sonicate at 0¡C with constant stirring 2x 20 sec allowing 20 seconds rest in between bursts.
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23. Check cells for 95% lysis. If not, resonicate.
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25. When lysed, transfer to cold oak ridge tubes, balance, and spin at 18k rpm, 30 min in cold SS34 rotor in cold Sorvall.
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27. Using Pasteur pipet, pipet low speed supernatant1 into about 4 cold polycarbonate tubes, balance, cap, and spin in 70.1 Ti at 41k rpm (150,000g), 4¡C, 2 hr.
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29. Using Pasteur pipet, pipet high speed Supernatant 2 to long, wide dialysis tubing allowing volume for 4x swelling. Avoid taking soft pellet 2. Use 1 dialysis tube per 1 polycarbonate tube.
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31. Dialyse overnight versus 4 L cold Assembly buffer.
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33. Put 70.1 Ti rotor back in cold room overnight.
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Day 2

1. Precool Sorvall RC and Beckman centrifuges, SS34 and 70.1Ti rotors, and large Dounce homogeniser.
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3. Transfer dialysate to cold oak ridge tubes, balance, and spin 18k rpm, 4¡C, 30 min to pellet actomyosin filaments.
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5. Prewash superose 6 column with two column volumes (60 ml) Column buffer at less than 0.5 ml/min.
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7. Resuspend pellets P3 in about 2 ml total cold TK buffer, pool in Dounce homogeniser on ice, measure volume.
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9. Add equal volume cold 2x Disassembly buffer and homogenise.
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11. Transfer homogenate to cold polycarbonate tube, cap, balance, and spin 150,000g (no more than 40k rpm), 4¡C, 30 min.
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13. While 70.1Ti is spinning preload 4 ml 1x Disassembly buffer on column so that it will be done when spin is completed (about 8 min).
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15. Load 2 ml supernatant 4 on column. Postload 1 ml 1x Disassembly buffer. Elute with 30 ml Column buffer.
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17. While column is running pour two thick 15 well 10% minigels.
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19. Take 10 µl aliquots of every other fraction into labeled tubes containing 10 µl 2x SDS gel sample buffer, mix, boil 5 min, run hot aliquots on gel at 150V.
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21. Coomassie stain gels at least 30 min, destain until actin and myosin bands appear. Myosin is in fractions 16-26. Actin appears in fraction 40-50.
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23. Pool the myosin fractions without actin (about 8) avoiding the trailing edge.
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25. Dialyse myosin pool versus 2 L Dialysis buffer 2.
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Day 3

1. Precool Sorvall RC centrifuge, SS34 rotor, rotor adaptor, and 1 ml Dounce homogeniser.
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3. Transfer dialysate to cold polycarbonate tube. Measure volume.
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5. Add MgCl₂ to 10 mM. Hold at 0¡C, 60 min.
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7. Prepare standard protein samples for Bradford assay.
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9. Balance tube and spin 18k rpm, 4¡C, 30 min to pellet myosin filaments.
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11. Pour low and high percentage PAGE  minigels.
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13. Resuspend Pellet 5 in 1 ml Storage buffer, transfer to homogeniser and homogenise gently. Save supernatant 5!
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15. Transfer to cold 1.5 ml eppendorf tube, spin in cold room microfuge at top speed, 15 min.
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17. Assay protein standards for standard curve.
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19. Transfer clarified Supernatant 6 to fresh cold 1.5 ml tube. This has myosin monomers!
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21. Assay aliquots of myosin for protein concentration. If too dilute, redialyse versus 1 L Dialysis buffer 2 and recapture.
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23. Run aliquots on PAGE for purity.
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Materials

• Sonication buffer (100 ml)
  
  • 20 ml of 0.2 M tetrasodium Pyrophasphate (Nappi) (40 mM final concentration)
  • 45 g sucrose (45% final concentration)
  • 1 ml of 0.5 M Triethanolamine (Teola) pH 7.5 (5 mM final concentration)
  • 0.1 ml 10% sodium azide (0.01% final concentration)
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  Add fresh:
  
  • 100 µl of 1 M PMSF (1 mM final concentration)
  • 100 µl of 50 mg/ml TPCK (50 µg/ml final concentration)
  • 150 µl of 10 mg/ml pepstatin (15 µg/ml final concentration)
  • 100 µl of 10 mg/ml leupeptin (10 µg/ml final concentration)
  • 500 µl of 1 M DTT (5 mM final concentration)
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• Assembly buffer 1 (4 L)
  
  • 12.1 g PIPES, free acid (10 mM final concentration)
  • 7.4 g EDTA (5 mM final concentration)
  • 14.9 g KCl (50 mM final concentration)
  • 0.8g Sodium azide (0.02% final concentration)
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  Adjust pH to 7.0 with ~45 pellet of NaOH, bring to volume, cool down and add fresh:
  
  • 4 ml 1 M DTT (1 mM final concentration)
  • 2 ml 1 M PMSF (0.5 mM final concentration)
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• Column buffer (200 ml)
  • 4 ml 0.5 M Teola, pH 7.5 (10 mM final concentration)
  • 0.4 ml 0.5 M EDTA, pH 8.0 (1 mM final concentration)
  • 8.95 g KCl (0.6 M final concentration)
  • 0.2 ml 10% Sodium azide (0.01% final concentration)
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  Bring to volume, cool down, and add:
  
  • 0.4 ml of 0.1 M ATP, pH 7.0 (0.2 mM final concentration)
  • 0.2 ml of 1 M DTT (1 mM final concentration)
  
  Filter through 0.22 µm filter before use
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• TK buffer (50 ml)
  • 1ml of 0.5 M Teola pH 7.5 (10 mM final concentration)
  • 0.8 ml of 3 M KCl (50 mM final concentration)
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• 2x Disassembly buffer (50 ml)
  • 10g KI (1.2M final concentration)
  • 1 ml of 0.5 M Teola,pH 7.5 (10 mM final concentration)
  • 0.5 ml of 1 M MgCl₂ (10 mM final concentration)
  • 0.1 ml of 0.5 M EDTA, pH 8.0 (1 mM final concentration)
  • 0.1 ml of 1 M CaCl₂ (2 mM final concentration)
  • 0.05 ml of 1 M DTT (1 mM final concentration)
  • 5 ml of 0.1 M ATP (10 mM final concentration)
  
  1x Disassembly buffer can be made by diluting 2x with TK buffer.
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• Assembly buffer 2 (1 L)
  • 10 ml of 1 M Tris-Maleate, pH 6.5 (10 mM final concentration)
  • 16.7 ml of 3 M KCl (50 mM final concentration)
  • 1 ml of 1 M DTT (1 mM final concentration)
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• Myosin storage buffer (10 ml)
  • 0.2 ml of 0.5 M Teola, pH 7.5 (10 mM final concentration)
  • 0.2 ml of 0.5 M EDTA (10 mM final concentration)
  • 0.8 ml of 3 M KCl (0.25 M final concentration)
  • 10 µl of 1 M DTT (1 mM final concentration)
  • 10 µl of 10% Sodium azide (0.01% final concentration)

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