ACTIN ASSOCIATED WITH MEMBRANES FROM 3T3 MOUSE FIBROBLAST AND HELA-CELLS
ACTIN ASSOCIATED WITH MEMBRANES FROM 3T3 MOUSE FIBROBLAST AND HELA-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1083/jcb.64.1.223
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发表时间:
1975-01-01
影响因子:
7.8
通讯作者:
WEIHING, RR
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作者:
GRUENSTEIN, E;RICH, A;WEIHING, RR
A protein component of membranes isolated from 3T3 mouse fibroblasts and HeLa cells has been identified as actin by peptide mapping. Extensive but apparently not total coincidence was found between the peptide maps of these two nonmuscle membrane-associated actins compared to chick skeletal muscle actin. Between 2 and 4% of the total membrane protein appears in the actin band on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels of 3T3 membranes while about 4% of the membrane protein appears as the actin band from HeLa membranes. These values represent approximately the same proportion of actin to total protein found in the cell homogenates. Treatment of intact cells with levels of cytochalasin B sufficient to cause pronounced morphological changes did not change the amount of actin associated with the membrane in either 3T3 or HeLa cells. However, incubation of isolated membranes under conditions favoring conversion of actin from filamentous to monomeric form resulted in dissociation of approximately 80 and 60% of the actin from 3T3 and HeLa membranes, respectively. Thus, approximately 20% of 3T3 membrane actin and 40% of HeLa membrane actin remained associated with the membrane even under actin depolymerizing conditions.Actin has now been identified as a component of essentially all eukaryotic animal cells in which it has been sought. In addition, myosin-and tropomyosin-like proteins have been identified in many of these nonmuscle cells.(An extensive review on the subject of contractile proteins of nonmuscle cells has recently appeared [29].) In several electron microscope preparations, apparent contact between plasma membrane and actin filaments (or thin filaments with the dimensions of actin) has been observed in situ (24, 36, 42, 44, 45) or in isolated plasma membranes (28). Biochemical evidence has also been presented that actin is associ-