Interaction of assembly protein AP-2 and its isolated subunits with clathrin.
Interaction of assembly protein AP-2 and its isolated subunits with clathrin.
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组装蛋白 AP-2 及其分离亚基与网格蛋白的相互作用。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00236a036
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发表时间:
1991
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Keen,JH
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作者:
Prasad,K;Keen,JH
Revised Manuscript Received January 28, 1991 abstract: The clathrin assembly protein complex AP-2 is a multimeric subunitcomplex consisting of two 100-115-kDa subunits known as a and/3 and 50-and 16-kDa subunits. The subunits have been dissociated and separated by ion-exchange chromatography in 7.5 M urea. Fractions highly enriched in either the a or (3 subunit were obtained. The a fraction interacted with clathrin as evidenced by its ability to bind to preassembled clathrin cages. It also reacted with dissociated clathrin trimers under conditions that favor assembly of coat structures, but did not yield discrete clathrin polygonal lattices. The enriched $ fraction (containing small amounts of a) reacted with clathrin to yieldintact coats with the incorporation of approximately equivalent amounts of a and (8 subunits into the polymerized species; excess free/3 subunit was unreactive. The AP-2 complex was also completely dissociated in a highly denaturing solvent, 6 M Gdn-HCl, and the constituent subunits of 100-115, 50, and 16 kDa were separated by gel filtration. In a coassembly assay with clathrin, the clathrin polymerizing activity was exclusively associated with the 100-kDa subunitfraction with stoichiometric incorporation of both a and/3 subunits of 100 kDa into the polymerized coats, and with no requirement for 50-or 16-kDa subunits. These observations demonstrate that theassembly activity of the complex is associated with the a and 0 subunits and suggest that both subunits, through independent interactions with clathrin, are required for expression of complete lattice assembly activity.