Escherichia coliDiacylglycerol Kinase Is an α-Helical Polytopic Membrane Protein and Can Spontaneously Insert into Preformed Lipid Vesicles†

Biochemistry ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (26) ◽  
pp. 8610-8618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Sanders ◽  
Lech Czerski ◽  
Olga Vinogradova ◽  
Prakash Badola ◽  
David Song ◽  
...  
Biochemistry ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (26) ◽  
pp. 8590-8597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Wolin ◽  
H. Ronald Kaback

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill B. Graham ◽  
Johan C. Sunryd ◽  
Ketan Mathavan ◽  
Emma Weir ◽  
Ida Signe Bohse Larsen ◽  
...  

Here we characterize TMTC3 as an ER, polytopic membrane protein with C-terminal luminal-facing TPRs, and an O-mannosyltransferase of E-cadherin. O-mannosylation of cadherins by TMTC3 affects cellular adherence, E-cadherin homophilic binding, and embryonic gastrulation, helping to explain the basis of a number of TMTC3-associated disease variants.


Cell ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunio Nakatsukasa ◽  
Gregory Huyer ◽  
Susan Michaelis ◽  
Jeffrey L. Brodsky

1993 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 909-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
C P Chia ◽  
A Shariff ◽  
S A Savage ◽  
E J Luna

Ponticulin, an F-actin binding transmembrane glycoprotein in Dictyostelium plasma membranes, was isolated by detergent extraction from cytoskeletons and purified to homogeneity. Ponticulin is an abundant membrane protein, averaging approximately 10(6) copies/cell, with an estimated surface density of approximately 300 per microns2. Ponticulin solubilized in octylglucoside exhibited hydrodynamic properties consistent with a ponticulin monomer in a spherical or slightly ellipsoidal detergent micelle with a total molecular mass of 56 +/- 6 kD. Purified ponticulin nucleated actin polymerization when reconstituted into Dictyostelium lipid vesicles, but not when a number of commercially available lipids and lipid mixtures were substituted for the endogenous lipid. The specific activity was consistent with that expected for a protein comprising 0.7 +/- 0.4%, by mass, of the plasma membrane protein. Ponticulin in octylglucoside micelles bound F-actin but did not nucleate actin assembly. Thus, ponticulin-mediated nucleation activity was sensitive to the lipid environment, a result frequently observed with transmembrane proteins. At most concentrations of Dictyostelium lipid, nucleation activity increased linearly with increasing amounts of ponticulin, suggesting that the nucleating species is a ponticulin monomer. Consistent with previous observations of lateral interactions between actin filaments and Dictyostelium plasma membranes, both ends of ponticulin-nucleated actin filaments appeared to be free for monomer assembly and disassembly. Our results indicate that ponticulin is a major membrane protein in Dictyostelium and that, in the proper lipid matrix, it is sufficient for lateral nucleation of actin assembly. To date, ponticulin is the only integral membrane protein known to directly nucleate actin polymerization.


1996 ◽  
Vol 318 (2) ◽  
pp. 645-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Y TAM ◽  
Carolina LANDOLT-MARTICORENA ◽  
Reinhart A. F. REITHMEIER

N-glycosylated sites in polytopic membrane proteins are usually localized to single extracytosolic (EC) loops containing more than 30 residues [Landolt-Marticorena and Reithmeier (1994) Biochem. J. 302, 253–260]. This may be due to a biosynthetic restriction whereby only a single loop of nascent polypeptide is available to the oligosaccharyl transferase in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum. To test this hypothesis, two types of N-glycosylation mutants were constructed using Band 3, a polytopic membrane protein that contains up to 14 transmembrane segments and a single endogenous site of N-glycosylation at Asn-642 in EC loop 4. In the first set of mutants, an additional N-glycosylation acceptor site (Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr) was constructed by site-directed mutagenesis in EC loop 3, with or without retention of the endogenous site. In the second set of mutants, EC loop 4 was duplicated and inserted into EC loop 2, again with or without retention of the endogenous site. Cell-free translation experiments using reticulocyte lysates showed that microsomes were able to N-glycosylate multiple EC loops in these Band 3 mutants. The acceptor site in EC loop 3 was poorly N-glycosylated, probably due to the suboptimal size (25 residues) of this EC loop. The localization of N-glycosylation sites to single EC loops in multi-span membrane proteins is probably due to the absence of suitably positioned acceptor sites on multiple loops.


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