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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 12.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2013;1064:43–70. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-601-6_4

Table 3.

Examples of lysis buffer conditions that we previously used to isolate mammalian host proteins from both cultured cells and tissue.

Bait Description &
Localization
Tag Cell type Optimized Lysis Buffer Ref
Nup37

Nup43
Member of nuclear pore
complex and subunit of
Nup107-160 subcomplex
(nuclear membrane)
GFP HeLa 0.5% Triton, 200 mM NaCl, 20 mg/mL
PMSF, 0.4 mg/mL pepstatin A
(1)
GluRδ2 postsynaptic densities;
(cerebellar excitatory
synapses)
GFP Mouse
tissue
b 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, 2 mM CaCl2 ,
132 mM NaCl, 3 mM KCl, 2 mM MgSO4,
1.2 mM NaH2PO4, 0.5% Triton X-100,
1/100 (v/v/) protease inhibitor cocktail
(25)
HDAC1 Histone deacetylase 1
(nucleus)
GFP HFF 1µM ZnCl2, 1 µM CaCl2, 0.5% Triton X-
100, 250 mM NaCl
(12)
H3 Histone 3 isoforms (nucleus) YFP mouse
ES cells
0.5% Triton, 300 mM NaCl (24)
HDAC5 Histone deacetylase 5
(nucleus and cytoplasm)
GFP HEK293 1 μM ZnCl2, 1 μM CaCl2, 0.5% Triton X-
100, 250 mM NaCl, 4 μg/mL DNase, and
phosphatase inhibitor cocktails
(13)
SIRT7 Sirtuin 7 (nucleoli) GFP HEK293 1 μm ZnCl2, 1 μm CaCl2, 0.5% Triton X-
100, 250 mm NaCl, 4 μg/ml DNase, and
phosphatase inhibitor cocktails
(14)
IFI16 Interferon inducible protein
16 (nucleus and cytoplasm)
No tag CEM T 1 μM ZnCl2, 1 μM CaCl2, 0.6% Triton X-
100, 200mM NaCl, 10 μg/mL DNase I,
phosphatase inhibitor cocktail
(16)
a

Alllysis buffers contained 20 mM K-HEPES, pH 7.4, 110 mM KOAc, 2 mM MgCl2, 0.1% Tween 20, 1/100 protease inhibitor mixture in addition to optimized lysis buffer components listed.

b

This buffer is the complete buffer composition without core components listed above.