CLATHRIN-COATED VESICLES - ISOLATION, DISSOCIATION AND FACTOR-DEPENDENT REASSOCIATION OF CLATHRIN BASKETS
CLATHRIN-COATED VESICLES - ISOLATION, DISSOCIATION AND FACTOR-DEPENDENT REASSOCIATION OF CLATHRIN BASKETS
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DOI:
10.1016/0092-8674(79)90007-2
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
PASTAN, IH
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作者:
KEEN, JH;WILLINGHAM, MC;PASTAN, IH
The nature of the protein coat on clathrin-coated vesicles and the interactions responsible for the structure and reformation of clathrin baskets were investigated. Coated vesicles were isolated from bovine brain using a rapid, 1-day modification of the Pearse method. The vesicles are composed predominantly of clathrin (175,000) with smaller amounts of 110,000 and 55,000 MW polypeptides. Clathrin was released in a solubilized form from these vesicles by treatment with 0.5 M Tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl ammonium chloride (Tris-Cl) or other protonated amines at neutral pH. It was not released on treatment with thiols, thiol reagents, Triton X-100 or NaCl, suggesting that specific amino-carboxylate salt linkages are necessary for maintenance of the basket structure. Under EM the solubilized proteins in Tris-Cl are present in the form of filamentous aggregates and no basket structures are observed. Gel filtration of the extract in Tris-Cl resolves a clathrin-containing fraction (I) from one consisting predominantly of the 110,000 MW polypeptide (II). Basket structures from the unfractionated Tris-Cl extract could not be reconstituted by dialyzing it against the vesicle isolation buffer, a solution of moderate ionic strength (.GAMMA./2 = 0.11). Neither of the resolved fractions (I or II) alone yielded baskets on dialysis, but reconstitution was successful when both I and II were combined and dialyzed. The activity in II, which appears to be a basket-assembly factor, was heat-labile and could not be replaced by bovine serum albumin or brain Ca-dependent modulator protein. If a solution of low ionic strength (.GAMMA./2 = 0.01) containing Ca was used as the dialysate, the clathrin fraction (I) alone was capable of reforming baskets. The clathrin coat is apparently a labile structure that can be solubilized by nondenaturing treatments and baskets can be reformed from the extracted material.