Sequence of the bovine 2-oxoglutarate/malate carrier protein: structural relationship to other mitochondrial transport proteins.
Sequence of the bovine 2-oxoglutarate/malate carrier protein: structural relationship to other mitochondrial transport proteins.
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牛 2-酮戊二酸/苹果酸载体蛋白的序列:与其他线粒体转运蛋白的结构关系。
作者:
M. Runswick;J. Walker;Fausto Bisaccia;V. Iacobazzi;F. Palmieri
The amino acid sequence of the 2-oxoglutarate/malate carrier protein, a component of the inner membranes of mitochondria, has been deduced from the sequences of overlapping cDNA clones. These clones were generated in polymerase chain reactions using, in the first instance, complex mixtures of oligonucleotides as primers and probes, with sequences based upon partial protein sequences of cyanogen bromide fragments of the purified protein. The protein sequence of the carrier, including the initiator methionine, is 314 amino acids long. The mature protein has a modified alpha-amino group, but the nature of this modification and the precise position of the mature N-terminal amino acid have not been ascertained, although it must lie in amino acids 1-4 of the deduced protein sequence. Comparison of the protein sequence with itself and with those of 3 other mitochondrial carrier proteins, ADP/ATP translocase, the phosphate carrier, and the uncoupling protein from brown fat, shows that all 4 proteins contain a 3-fold repeated sequence about 100 amino acids in length, and all the repeats are interrelated. This suggests that the members of this family of proteins have similar structures and mechanisms and that they have evolved from a common origin. The distribution of hydrophobic amino acids in the oxoglutarate/malate carrier supports the view that the domains are folded into similar structural motifs, possibly consisting of two transmembrane alpha-helices joined by an extensive extramembranous hydrophilic region. Clones of cDNA arising from a longer related transcript of the oxoglutarate/malate carrier gene have also been analyzed. They contain 271 additional nucleotides in the 3' noncoding region.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
DOI:
10.1016/s0021-9258(18)61070-1
发表时间:
1987-07
期刊:
The Journal of biological chemistry
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作者:
P. Matsudaira
通讯作者:
P. Matsudaira