Purification and subunit structure of bovine brain modulator binding protein.
Purification and subunit structure of bovine brain modulator binding protein.
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牛脑调节剂结合蛋白的纯化和亚基结构。
DOI:
10.1016/s0021-9258(18)50726-2
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发表时间:
1979
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J. H. Wang
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作者:
R. Sharma;R. Desai;D. Waisman;J. H. Wang
A protein which can associate with the Ca”-dependent modulator protein resulting in the inhibition of the Ca’+-activatable cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase has been discovered recently and designated as modulator binding protein (Wang, JH, and Desai, R.(1977) J. Biol. Chem. 252, 4175-4183; Klee, CB, and Krinks, MH (1978) Biochemistry 17, 120-126). This protein is purified from bovine brain to near homogeneity. The purification procedure is based mainly on the Ca’+-dependent association of this protein with the highly acidic modulator protein. The purified modulator binding protein is shown to be a globular protein of molecular weight 85,000. It contains two distinct subunits, subunits A and B, of molecular weights about 60,000 and 14,500, respectively. The mass ratio of subunits A/B is determined to be about 2.3: 1. From these results, the subunit structure of modulator binding protein is suggested to be AB2. In the presence of 6 M urea, modulator binding protein dissociates into its constituent subunits, and subunits A and B can be separated on a G-100 Sephadex column. The isolated subunit A exhibits inhibitory activity against the Ca”-activatable cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase. Subunit B has no phosphodiesterase inhibiting activity, nor does it affect the activity of subunit A in the enzyme reaction. These results suggest that subunit A is responsible for the association of modulator binding protein to the modulator protein. The function of subunit B is not known at present.The Ca”-dependent modulator protein, which was originally discovered as an activator protein of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase in mammalian tissues (l-8), has recently been found to mediate the Ca”+ activation of several other reactions. These include reactions catalyzed by a brain adenylate cyclase (9), erythrocyte membrane (Ca’/Mg*+)-ATPase (10, ll), a membrane-bound protein kinase (12), and a cytosolic protein kinase which has potent activity toward myosin light chain phosphorylation(13, 14). In addition, this protein which has been shown to possess considerable sequence homology with troponin C (15-18) can substitute for the latter protein in the actomyosine ATPase (19, 20) regulation in vitro.