5-[I-125]IODONAPHTHYL AZIDE, A REAGENT TO DETERMINE PENETRATION OF PROTEINS INTO LIPID BILAYER OF BIOLOGICAL-MEMBRANES
5-[I-125]IODONAPHTHYL AZIDE, A REAGENT TO DETERMINE PENETRATION OF PROTEINS INTO LIPID BILAYER OF BIOLOGICAL-MEMBRANES
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00601a020
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
GITLER, C
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作者:
BERCOVICI, T;GITLER, C
5-[125I]Iodonaphthyl 1-azide is a useful reagent for the determination of the extent of penetration of proteins into the lipid bilayer of biological membranes. The label can readily be made highly radioactive and stored for reasonable times or repurified and then used. In the dark it has a high partition coefficient into membrane lipids. It has a high extinction coefficient for the light-mediated conversion of the azide into the reactive nitrene. It can be activated by short periods of light at wavelengths which membrane proteins and lipids do not absorb so that their radiation damage is minimal. The light-generated nitrene inserts covalently with very high efficiencies into the membrane components. With different membrane preparations, 20-55% of the added label inserts into the membrane proteins and lipids. It appears to insert from within the lipid bilayer mainly into intrinsic membrane proteins; very little, if any insertion occurs into extrinsic proteins. In rabbit skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum, the main insertion of the nitrene occurs into the Ca2+-sensitive ATPase. The ATPase activity is not affected by the labeling procedure. Mild tryptic cleavage of the 100,000 MW Ca2+-ATPase results in the formation of 2 fragments of MW 52,000 and 46,000. The 2 fragments are equally labeled, suggesting that the protein is in contact with the bilayer by at least 2 segments of its polypeptide chain. In intact erythrocytes and hemoglobin-free erythrocyte membranes, little, if any, label is inserted into bands 1, 2 or 5 (spectrin and erythrocyte actin, respectively). Label occurs in the region of bands 3, periodic acid-Schiff 1, 2 and 3 and in band 7.