LOCALIZATION OF THE PALMITOYLATION SITE IN THE TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN P12E OF FRIEND MURINE LEUKEMIA-VIRUS
LOCALIZATION OF THE PALMITOYLATION SITE IN THE TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN P12E OF FRIEND MURINE LEUKEMIA-VIRUS
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.373zz.x
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1995-09-01
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GEYER, R
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HENSEL, J;HINTZ, M;GEYER, R
Friend murine leukaemia virus complex was propagated on murine cells in the presence of [9,10-H-3]palmitic acid. Virus particles were harvested from the culture supernatant and lysed with detergents. The viral transmembrane protein, p12E, was isolated from the lysates by size-exclusion chromatography and purified by narrowbore reverse-phase HPLC. Analysis of the purified product by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) revealed that the protein is palmitoylated carrying one fatty acid residue. The radiolabelled fatty acid was released by hydroxylamine treatment at pH 7, indicating that acylation occurred via a thioester linkage. For allocation of the acylation site, p12E was digested with trypsin. The resulting peptides were either directly subjected to MALDI-TOF-MS or fractionated by microbore reverse-phase HPLC prior to mass spectrometry. The results revealed that p12E of Friend murine leukaemia virus is acylated at a cysteine residue situated at the C-terminal side of the putative transmembrane anchor of the polypeptide. Fatty acid analysis of the purified acylpeptide demonstrated that p12E carries almost exclusively palmitic acid.