Segregation of mutant ovalbumins and ovalbumin-globin fusion proteins in Xenopus oocytes: Identification of an ovalbumin signal sequence |
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Authors: | L Tabe P Krieg R Strachan D Jackson E Wallis A Colman |
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Institution: | Medical Research Council Developmental Biology Group Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K. |
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Abstract: | The intramolecular signals for chicken ovalbumin secretion were examined by producing mutant proteins in Xenopus oocytes. An ovalbumin complementary DNA clone was manipulated in vitro, and constructs containing altered protein-coding sequences and either the simian virus 40 (SV40) early promoter or Herpes simplex thymidine kinase promoter, were microinjected into Xenopus laevis oocytes. The removal of the eight extreme N-terminal amino acids of ovalbumin had no effect on the segregation of ovalbumin with oocyte membranes nor on its secretion. A protein lacking amino acids 2 to 21 was sequestered in the endoplasmic reticulum but remained strongly associated with the oocyte membranes rather than being secreted. Removal of amino acids 231 to 279, a region previously reported to have membrane-insertion function, resulted in a protein that also entered the endoplasmic reticulum but was not secreted. Hybrid proteins containing at their N terminus amino acids 9 to 41 or 22 to 41 of ovalbumin fused to the complete chimpanzee α-globin polypeptide were also sequestered by oocyte membranes. We conclude that the ovalbumin “signal” seque?ce is internally located within amino acids 22 to 41, and we speculate that amino acids 9 to 21 could be important for the completion of ovalbumin translocation through membranes. |
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Keywords: | ER endoplasmic reticulum cDNA complementary DNA bp base-pair(s) kb |
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