Compartmentalization-aided interaction screening reveals extensive high-order complexes within the SARS-CoV-2 proteome

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

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    There is another caveat associated with CoPIC. If the partner to be recruited can also undergo phase separation, the potentially complicated interaction relationship between the scaffold phase and the client phase might hinder the straightforward recruitment of the clients. For example, for the PPI screening involving the nucleocapsid protein N, there were hardly any positive interactions detected except for its self-association when N protein serves as the client; however multiple PPIs were detected when N is fused with the scaffold, GFP-Nup98N (Figure 3A). We reasoned that the phase separation property of N protein (Iserman et al., 2020; Perdikari et al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2020) interferes with its recruitment into the phase-separated compartment of the scaffolds. To circumvent this caveat, binding partners with phase separation propensity should be fused with the scaffold and those without phase separation propensity should serve as the clients. Even with these caveats considered, CoPIC is a simple and efficient method for investigating PPIs in cells. In addition, CoPIC can be used to detect weak interactions since the signals are enriched within the compartments and the client proteins are overexpressed to high concentrations. Taking the interaction of Nsp14 with Nsp16 as an example, the negative pair demonstrated by the typical co-IP assay turned out to exhibit a salient bidirectional colocalization within the compartment mediated by GFP-Nup98N (Figure 3, S4B, S4C). Not...

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