Transglutaminase-catalyzed insertion of a fluorescent probe into the protease-sensitive region of rhodopsin.
Transglutaminase-catalyzed insertion of a fluorescent probe into the protease-sensitive region of rhodopsin.
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转谷氨酰胺酶催化荧光探针插入视紫红质的蛋白酶敏感区域。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00604a021
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发表时间:
1978
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
L. Stryer
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作者:
J. Pober;V. Iwanij;E. Reich;L. Stryer
Transglutaminasefrom guinea pig liver inserts dansylcadaverine and putrescine into bovine rhodopsin in retinal disk membranes. The stoichiometry of labeling is one amine per rhodopsin molecule. Labeling with putrescine prevents the subsequent insertion of dansylcadaverine, suggesting that the same glutamine residue is labeled by these amines. The site of labeling was determined by taking advantage of the fact that rhodopsin in disk membranes is cleavedby a variety of proteolytic enzymes of differingspecificity into two fragments, called FI and F2 [Pober, JS, and Stryer, L.(1975), J. Mol. Biol. 95, All]. Three lines of evidence indicate that the site labeled by transglutaminase is located in the protease-sensitive region between the FI and F2 fragments. First, prior enzymatic proteolysis inhibits transglutaminase-catalyzed labeling. Second, prior transglutaminase-catalyzed labeling inhibits enzymatic proteolysis. Third, dansyl fluorescence is exhibited by FI during the initial stage of proteolysis of labeled rhodopsin by subtilisin. The dansyl label is then excised from FI with littleTransglutaminase from guinea pig liver catalyzes the in-sertion of primary amines into glutaminyl residues in peptides and proteins (Clarke et al., 1959; Folk and Chung, 1973; Connellan et al., 1971). This enzyme has been used tolabel membrane proteins and, in theabsence of exogenous amines, to catalyze the formation of€-(y-glutamyl)-lysyl cross-links between them (Brewer and Singer, 1974; Dutton and Singer, 1975; Dutton et al., 1976; Iwanij, 1977). The specificity of the labeling reaction and the mildness of the reaction conditions stimulated us to explore the use of transglutaminase to insert spectroscopic probes into rhodopsin in the intact disk mem-brane. The probes used are not reactive in the absence of transglutaminase. Furthermore, only proteins can be labeled because this enzyme requires a glutamine side chain as one of its substrates. Only residues of rhodopsin located in the