INTERACTIONS OF LIPIDS WITH A MEMBRANE STRUCTURAL PROTEIN FROM MYELIN
INTERACTIONS OF LIPIDS WITH A MEMBRANE STRUCTURAL PROTEIN FROM MYELIN
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00839a014
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发表时间:
1969-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
RADIN, NS
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作者:
BRAUN, PE;RADIN, NS
* From the Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Received April 16, 1969. Supported in part by Grant NB-03192 from the NationalInstitute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, U. S. Public Health Service. f Present address: Department of Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104. lesterol and cerebroside) and lecithin form nonprecipitating complexes with the protein which can be demonstrated by centrifugation in sucrose density gradients. These lipids also bind to protein-anionic lipid complexes. Succinylation of the protein greatlyreduces interaction with lipids andabolishes the capacity to form insoluble complexes. These observations are discussed with respect to the structural role which different kinds of lipids might assume in myelin. beef brains and stored frozen. Large-scale myelin isolations were carried out with the Beckman B-14 zonal rotor according to the procedure of Autilio et al.(1964). The final preparation, following osmotic rupture and numerous water washes to re-move axonal fragments, consisted of a dense slurry pellet. Proteolipid Protein. A modification of the procedure de-scribed by Tenenbaum and Folch (1966) provided the myelin protein used in all thepresent studies. Freshly prepared myelin was dissolved in 19 volumes of chloroform-methanol (2: 1, v/v). The clear solution was partitioned with water according to Folch et al.(1957) and the lower phase, containing all the soluble proteolipid, was transferred to chloroform-methanol extracted dialysis tubing. Following dialysis for 7 days in chloroform-methanol the dialysate was acidified to0. 04 n with concentrated HC1. The precipitate which appeared at this point was removed by centrifugation (20,000 g, 15 min). The clear supernatant fluid was returned to fresh tubing and dialyzed against chloroform-methanol-HCl. The transfer of the delipidatedprotein toaqueous solution was per-formed by successive dialysis in solutions of increasing methanol and water and finally in water alone. A smallamount of suspended material was removed by centrifugation at 100,-OOOg for 60 min. The pH of the final, clearaqueous solution of protein was close to neutrality. Protein solutions were con-centrated to 1-10 mg/ml by either pervaporation or precipita-tion (pH 9-10) with dilute NH4OH followed by resolution in very dilute acetic acid and dialysis. Since proteolipid protein is denatured by lyophilization or by freezing and thawing (Tenenbaum and Folch, 1966), protein solutions were stored at 4 with a few drops of chloroform added as a preservative. The chloroform-methanol-HCl-insoluble protein was re-dissolved inchloroform-methanol. Transfer of this protein to aqueous solution was accomplished by the above procedure. Considerable losses of this protein occurred, as it is dialyzable. This is most probably the low molecular weight basic myelin protein isolated previously by other procedures (Lowden et al.. 1966; Roboz Einstein etal., 1968; Eng etal., 1968). Myelin slurry (436 g; 16.1 g of myelin, dry weight) yielded 1.5 g of water-soluble proteolipid protein and 0.8 g of basic protein. A third protein fraction remained at the interface during sol-