A 16 kDa protein co‐isolating with gap junctions from brain tissue belonging to the class of proteolipids of the vacuolar H+‐ATPases

FEBS Letters

Berzborn, Richard J.³  Völker, Michael¹  Meyer, Helmut E.²  Hwang, Theng-Khing⁴  Dermietzel, Rolf⁴ 

[1] Universität Essen, 4300 Essen 1 FRG;Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 4600 Bochum, FRG;Institut für Biochemie der Pflanzen Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 4600 Bochum, FRG;Institut für Anatomie, Universität Regensburg, 8400 Regensburg, FRG

关键词: Gap junction;    Amino acid sequence;    Sequence homology;    ATPase;    H+-;    (Bovine brain);   

DOI  :  10.1016/0014-5793(89)80917-2

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

A 16 kDa protein from an enriched gap junction preparation was isolated from bovine brain tissues. N-terminal amino acid microsequencing of the first 20 amino acids showed a complete homology with a recently published sequence of a proteolipid from a vacuolar H⁺-ATPase from chromaffin granules. Incubation of the brain gap junction preparation with ¹⁴C-N,N′-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide showed a significant binding of this compound to the 16 kDa protein, indicating that a proton binding site also occurs within that particular protein. The data suggest that this 16 kDa protein, which has also been described in gap junction preparations from various other tissues, belongs to the proton transporting ATPase.

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