Translocation of Proteins Across the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Translocation of Proteins Across the Endoplasmic Reticulum
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蛋白质穿过内质网的易位
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1981
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Peter Walter
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Peter Walter
Translocation-competent microsomal membrane vesicles of dog pancreas were shown to selectively bind nascent, in vitro assembled polysomes synthesizing secretory protein (bovine prolactin) but not those synthesizing cytoplasmic protein (alpha and beta chain of rabbit globin) . This selective polysome binding capacity was abol ished when the microsomal vesicles were salt -extracted but was restored by an 11S protein (SRP, Signal Recognit ion Protein) previously puri f ied from the salt extract of microsomal vesicles (Walter and Blobel , 1980 . Proc . Nat / . Acad . Sci . U . S. A . 77 :7112-7116) . SRP-dependent polysome recognit ion and binding to the microsomal membrane was shown to be a prerequisite for chain translocation . Modi f ication of SRP by N-ethyl maleimide abol ished its abi l ity to mediate nascent polysome binding to the microsomal vesicles . Likewise, polysome binding to the microsomal membrane was largely abol ished when 8-hydroxy leucine, a Leu analogue, was incorporated into nascent secretory polypeptides . The data in this and the preceding paper provide conclusive experimental evidence that chain translocation across the endoplasmic reticulum membrane is a receptor-mediated event and thus rule out proposals that chain translocation occurs spontaneously and without the mediation by proteins. Moreover, our data here demonstrate conclusively that the init ial events that lead to translocation and provide for its speci f icity are protein-protein (signal sequence plus ribosome with SRP) and not proteinl ipid (signal sequence with l ipid bi layer) interactions . In the preceding paper (1) we have described the effects of signal recognit ion protein (SRP) in a wheat germ cel l free translation system programmed with mRNA 's for either rabbit globin (cytoplasmic protein) or bovine prolactin (secretory protein) . We have demonstrated (1) that SRP binds speci f ical ly to monomeric ribosomes, albeit with relatively low aff inity (apparent kD < 5 x 10-5 M) , and that it binds selectively and with 6,000fold higher aff inity (apparent kD < 8 x 10-9 M) to in vitro assembled polysomes synthesizing secretory protein (but not to those synthesizing globin) . This 6,000fold enhancement most l ikely results from speci f ic recognit ion by SRP of the signal sequence of the nascent secretory polypeptide . In this paper we describe the speci f ic effects of SRP in a wheat germ cel l free translation system that was supplemented with dog pancreas microsomal membrane vesicles . Our data show that SRP mediates the selective binding to microsomal membranes of nascent, in vitro assembled polysomes synthesizing secretory protein but not of those synthesizing cytoplasmic protein . Polysome binding is abol ished i f SRP is modi f ied THE JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY VOLUME 91 NOVEMBER 1981 551-556 ©The Rockefel ler University Press 0021-9525 /81 /11 /0551 /06 $1 .00 by N-ethyl maleimide (NEM) or i f the nascent secretory polypeptide is modi f ied by incorporation of a-hydroxy leucine, an analogue of Leu. MATERIALS AND METHODS The preparation of various microsomel membrane fractions (RM, K-RM) , the extraction and puri f ication of SRP, the cel l free wheat germ translation system, and the quantitation of in vitro synthesized protein were described in the preceding paper (1) . The SRP preparation used was the eluate oftheaminopentyl agarose resin, except when stated otherwise . Assay for Binding of In Vitro Assembled Polysomes to Microsomal Membranes The assay for nascent polysome binding to microsomal membranes was an indirect one. We measured the depletion of mRNA from the translation system result ing from recruitment into membrane-bound polysomes and removal of these in vitro assembled rough microsomes (RM) by di fferential centri fugation . The init ial incubation volume for each timepoint was 75 dal. The wheat germ cel l free translation system plus addit ional components (speci f ied in f igure leg551 on M rch 7, 2006 ww.jcb.org Doloaded rom ends) were mixed on ice . The system was al lowed to warm for 2 min in a 26°C water bath ; mRNA was then added and preincubation (at 26°C) was started . The translations were arrested after various preincubation times by cool ing the mixture to 0°C in ice-water . A 40-Al al iquot was withdrawn ( leaving behind a 35Al control al iquot) , transferred to a centri fuge tube, and spun at 20 PSI in the A100-30 rotor in a Beckman Airfuge kept at 4°C (Beckman Instruments, Inc. , Ful lerton, Cal i f) . To start the spin, the air pressure was slowly turned up to reach 20 PSI after 10 s . The sample was then centri fuged for an addit ional 90 s. The brake engaged after a 2-min coast. A 35-p1 portion was careful ly taken from the top . Incubation of this sample and the 35-p1 control al iquot (not spun) at 26°C was continued unti l a total incubation time of 90 min for each sample was reached . A 25-pl portion of each was then TCA-precipitated and prepared for SDS-PAGE . With increasing preincubation time, increasing amounts of prolactin mRNA would be expected to be assembled into membrane-bound polysomes and, therefore, to be removed from the translocation mix by sedimentation . Incubation of the supernatant f luid fraction would be expected to result in the translation of al l free mRNA and mRNA engaged in free polysomes . Under the condit ions used, the amount of preprolactin made in our translation system is proportional to the amount of mRNA added to the translation . The f inal amount of preprolactin therefore is a function of the amount of translatable mRNA left in the supernatant f luid after the centri fugation step, and thereby a measure of the amount of mRNA not attached to the microsomal membrane at any given time of preincubation .