A membrane protein display platform for receptor interactome discovery.
Cell surface receptors are critical for cell signaling and constitute a quarter of all human genes. Despite their importance and abundance, receptor interaction networks remain understudied because of difficulties associated with maintaining membrane proteins in their native conformation and their typically weak interactions. To overcome these challenges, we developed an extracellular vesicle-based method for membrane protein display that enables purification-free and high-throughput detection of receptor-ligand interactions in membranes. We demonstrate that this platform is broadly applicable to a variety of membrane proteins, enabling enhanced detection of extracellular interactions over a wide range of binding affinities. We were able to recapitulate and expand the interactome for prominent members of the B7 family of immunoregulatory proteins such as PD-L1/CD274 and B7-H3/CD276. Moreover, when applied to the orphan cancer-associated fibroblast protein, LRRC15, we identified a membrane-dependent interaction with the tumor stroma marker TEM1/CD248. Furthermore, this platform enabled profiling of cellular receptors for target-expressing as well as endogenous extracellular vesicles. Overall, this study presents a sensitive and easy to use screening platform that bypasses membrane protein purification and enables characterization of interactomes for any cell surface-expressed target of interest in its native state.
['Cao|Shengya|S|0000-0002-4717-4927', 'Peterson|Sean M|SM|', 'Müller|Sören|S|', 'Reichelt|Mike|M|', 'McRoberts Amador|Christian|C|', 'Martinez-Martin|Nadia|N|']
D015703:Antigens, CD D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm D060887:B7 Antigens D060890:B7-H1 Antigen D057809:HEK293 Cells D006801:Humans D008565:Membrane Proteins D054730:Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs
membrane protein extracellular vesicle high-throughput screening receptor–ligand interaction