Identification of amine components in a glycolipid membrane-binding domain at the C-terminus of human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase.
Identification of amine components in a glycolipid membrane-binding domain at the C-terminus of human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase.
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人红细胞乙酰胆碱酯酶 C 末端糖脂膜结合域中胺成分的鉴定。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00359a005
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发表时间:
1986
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2.9
通讯作者:
Rosenberry,TL
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作者:
Haas,R;Brandt,PT;Knight,J;Rosenberry,TL
Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Received October 25, 1985; Revised Manuscript Received January 14, 1986 abstract: Purified human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase was labeled by reductive radiomethylationwith saturating amounts of [14C] formaldehyde and sodium cyanoborohydride. Acid hydrolysis and automated amino acid analysis permitted both identification of radiomethylated components by their coelution with radiomethylated standardsand quantitation of these components. The methylated N-terminal amino acids glutamate and arginine were observed at levels of 0.66 and 0.34 residues, respectively, per 70-kilodalton subunit, and lysine residues were methylated on their e-amino groups to a level of 7.40 residues per subunit [Haas, R., & Rosenberry, T. L.(1985) Anal. Biochem. 148, 154-162], In addition, each subunit contained 1.35 residues of methylated ethanolamine and0. 98 residue of methylated glucosamine. Papain digestion cleaved the intact enzyme into two fragments, an enzymatically active hydrophilic fragment and a small hydrophobic fragment that represented the membrane-binding domain. The radiomethylated amino acids were quantitatively retained inthe hydrophilic fragment, while the methylated ethanolamine and glucosamine were confined exclusively to the hydrophobic domain fragment. This fragment included the C-terminal dipeptide of the subunit. Peptide sequencing by manual Edman methods was combined with radiomethylation to demonstrate the sequence His-Gly-ethanolamine-Z for the hydrophobic domain fragment. The ethanolamine residue in this sequence is in amide linkage to the C-terminal Gly and is clearly distinct from the ethanolamine residues in Z which are susceptible to radiomethylation in the intact enzyme. Since Z also includes glucosamine and 2 mol of fatty acids [Roberts, W. L., & Rosenberry, TL (1985) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 133, 621-627], we conclude that the membrane-binding domain of human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase is a covalently linked glycolipid at the C-termini of the subunits. Analogies to the membrane-binding domains of murine Thy-1 glycoprotein and trypanosome variant surface glycoproteins are discussed.