scholarly journals ON THE SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT OF PROTEINS IN MICROSOMAL MEMBRANES FROM RAT LIVER

1974 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Kreibich ◽  
Ann L. Hubbard ◽  
David D. Sabatini

Rat liver rough microsomes were labeled enzymatically with 125I using lactoperoxidase and glucose oxidase. In intact microsomes only proteins exposed on the outside face of the microsomal membrane were iodinated. Low concentrations of detergent (0.049% deoxycholate) were used to allow entrance of the iodination system into the vesicles without disassembling the membranes. This led to iodination of the soluble content proteins and to an increased labeling of the membrane proteins. The distribution of radioactivity in microsomal proteins was analyzed after separation by sodium dodecyl sulfate acrylamide gel electrophoresis. Most membrane proteins were labeled when intact microsomes were iodinated. No major membrane proteins were exclusively labeled in the presence of low detergent concentrations or after complete membrane disassembly. Therefore it is unlikely that there are major membrane proteins, other than glycoproteins, present only on the inner membrane face or completely embedded within the microsomal membrane. Microsomal proteins were also labeled by incubating rough microsomes with [3H]-NaBH4 after reaction with pyridoxal phosphate. Microsomal membranes were permeable to these small molecular weight reagents as shown by the fact that proteins in the vesicular cavity as well as membrane proteins were labeled with this system.

1978 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 894-909 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Rodriguez Boulan ◽  
D D Sabatini ◽  
B N Pereyra ◽  
G Kreibich

Rat liver microsomal glycoproteins were purified by affinity chromatography on concanavalin A Sepharose columns from membrane and content fractions, separated from rough microsomes (RM) treated with low concentrations of deoxycholate (DOC). All periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)-positive glycoproteins of RM showed affinity for concanavalin A Sepharose; even after sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) acrylamide gel electrophoresis, most of the microsomal glycoproteins bound [125I]concanavalin A added to the gels, as detected by autoradiography. Two distinct sets of glycoproteins are present in the membrane and content fractions derived from RM. SDS acrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that RM membranes contain 15--20 glycoproteins (15--22% of the total microsomal protein) which range in apparent mol wt from 23,000 to 240,000 daltons. A smaller set of glycoproteins (five to seven polypeptides), with apparent mol wt between 60,000 and 200,000 daltons, was present in the microsomal content fraction. The disposition of the membrane glycoproteins with respect to the membrane plane was determined by selective iodination with the lactoperoxidase (LPO) technique. Intact RM were labeled on their outer face with 131I and, after opening of the vesicles with 0.05% DOC, in both faces with 125I. An analysis of iodination ratios for individual proteins separated electrophoretically showed that in most membrane glycoproteins, tyrosine residues are predominantly exposed on the luminal face of the vesicles, which is the same face on which the carbohydrate moieties are exposed. Several membrane glycoproteins are also exposed on the cytoplasmic surface and therefore have a transmembrane disposition. In this study, ribophorins I and II, two integral membrane proteins (mol wt 65,000 and 63,000) characteristic of RM, were found to be transmembrane glycoproteins. It is suggested that the transmembrane disposition of the ribophorins may be related to their possible role in ribosome binding and in the vectorial transfer of nascent polypeptides into the microsomal lumen.


1988 ◽  
Vol 252 (2) ◽  
pp. 509-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
L A Haldosén ◽  
J A Gustafsson

The presence of lactogenic and somatogenic binding sites in intact microsomal membranes and in detergent-solubilized microsomal membrane preparations of female rat liver has been studied by affinity cross-linking-SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. In microsomal membrane preparations an Mr 40,000 lactogenic binder is present which is not disulphide-linked to another protein. Triton X-100 solubilization of membranes results in the appearance of three lactogenic 125I-human growth hormone (125I-hGH) binders with Mr values of 87,000, 40,000 and 35,000, and one somatogenic 125I-hGH binder with Mr 32,000. Treatment of rats with oestrogen increased the amount of lactogenic and somatogenic binding species in liver. The lactogenic binding sites are present as one entity in Triton X-100-solubilized preparations, clearly separated from the somatogenic binder as analysed by gel chromatography. Furthermore, 125I-hGH interacts with an Mr 95,000 somatogenic binder in membrane preparations to which the hormone can be cross-linked only following Triton X-100 solubilization.


1975 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 700-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Autuori ◽  
H Svensson ◽  
G Dallner

Sialoproteins isolated from the soluble fraction of rat liver could be incorporated into microsomal membranes. This incorporation was dependent on protein concentration, time, and temperature. Sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis of membrane proteins after in vitro incorporation showed four major sugar-containing peaks and was similar to that found after in vivo labeling. Most of the incorporated protein was tightly bound to the microsomal membrane. Gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography revealed the presence of several cytosolic glycoproteins that could be incorporated into microsomes. During prolonged centrifugation in a KBr solution with a density of 1.21 a highly labeled ([3H]glucosamine) protein (mole wt approximately to 70,000) that was actively incorporated into microsomes could be recovered in the upper region of the tube. These results demonstrate that several cytoplasmic glycoproteins of rat liver are transferred into microsomal membranes and that one of these is a lipoprotein.


1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 958-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. C. Ip ◽  
R. J. Thibert ◽  
D. E. Schmidt Jr.

Cysteine-glutamate transaminase (cysteine aminotransferase; EC 2.6.1.3) has been purified 149-fold to an apparent homogeneity giving a specific activity of 2.09 IU per milligram of protein with an overall yield of 15%. The isolation procedures involve the preliminary separation of a crude rat liver homogenate which was submitted sequentially to ammonium sulfate fractionation, TEAE-cellulose column chromatography, ultrafiltration, and isoelectrofocusing. The final product was homogenous when examined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). A minimal molecular weight of 83 500 was determined by Sephadex gel chromatography. The molecular weight as estimated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of SDS was 84 000. The purified enzyme exhibited a pH optimum at 8.2 with cysteine and α-ketoglutarate as substrates. The enzyme is inactivated slowly when kept frozen and is completely inactivated if left at room temperature for 1 h. The enzyme does not catalyze the transamination of α-methyl-DL-cysteine, which, when present to a final concentration of 10 mM, exhibits a 23.2% inhibition of transamination of 30 mM of cysteine. The mechanism apparently resembles that of aspartate-glutamate transaminase (EC 2.6.1.1) in which the presence of a labile hydrogen on the alpha-carbon in the substrate is one of the strict requirements.


1985 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 2091-2095 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Weaver ◽  
J. A. Whitsett ◽  
W. M. Hull ◽  
G. Ross

Surfactant-associated glycoproteins A were identified by two-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of crude surfactant from canine alveolar lavage: an unglycosylated form (protein A1), 27,000–28,000 daltons; glycoprotein A2, 32,000–34,000 daltons; and glycoprotein A3, 37,000–38,000 daltons; pH at isoelectric point (pI) 4.5–5.0. Glycoproteins A2 and A3 were electroeluted and used to prepare a monospecific antiserum that identified proteins A1, A2, and A3 in immunoblots of crude surfactant obtained from dog lung lavage. This antiserum precipitated several proteins from in vitro translated canine lung poly(A)+ mRNA; proteins of 27,000 daltons, pI 5.0, and 28,000 daltons, pI 4.8–5.0, which precisely comigrated with proteins A1 from canine surfactant. Cotranslational processing of the primary translation products by canine pancreatic microsomal membranes resulted in larger proteins of 31,000–34,000 daltons, pI 4.8–5.0. Treatment of these processed forms of glycoprotein A with endoglycosidase F, to remove N-linked carbohydrate, resulted in proteins of 27,000–28,000 daltons which precisely comigrated with surfactant protein A1. These observations demonstrate that the polypeptide precursors to the glycoproteins A complex are extensively modified by addition of asparagine N-linked complex carbohydrate and are subsequently secreted as glycoproteins A2 and A3.


1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (11) ◽  
pp. 1181-1189 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. F. Koval ◽  
R. G. E. Murray

The methods used for the isolation of regularly structured (RS) surface array proteins of a range of prokaryotes are described. Most RS proteins can be selectively solubilized from envelope preparations with low concentrations of urea or guanidine hydrochloride. Sodium dodecyl sulfate – polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of the protein extracts shows that most RS arrays are composed of a single polypeptide that may contain carbohydrate. The molecular weight of the proteins varies from 41 000 to 200 000. Possible reasons for the presence of more than one polypeptide in RS protein preparations are discussed, as well as the evidence for proteolytic degradation of some RS proteins during isolation. Structural features of the RS proteins are described and the importance of protein conformation to assembly of the arrays is indicated.


2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (14) ◽  
pp. 2984-2995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taufika Islam Williams ◽  
Jennifer C. Combs ◽  
Anup P. Thakur ◽  
Herbert J. Strobel ◽  
Bert C. Lynn

1972 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragnar Flengsrud ◽  
Bjarne Østerud ◽  
Hans Prydz

1. The supernatant obtained by centrifugation of a rat liver homogenate at 100000g for 1h contained a heat-labile macromolecular inhibitor of the thrombin–fibrinogen reaction. 2. The inhibitor was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity by repeated preparative polyacrylamide disc electrophoresis. Inhibition was observed with purified inhibitor equivalent to about 1μg of protein/ml. 3. The inhibitor had a pI of 3.50–3.75, a molecular weight (from sodium dodecyl sulphate–polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis) of 72000±3000 and was inactivated by p-hydroxymercuribenzoate or 5,5′-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid). 4. Kinetic studies revealed a non-competitive inhibition, with the inhibitor probably acting on the thrombin–fibrinogen complex.


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