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Identification of membrane-embedded domains of lipophilin from human myelin
Authors:I Kahan  M A Moscarello
Abstract:The organization of lipophilin in the intact human myelin membrane has been studied by labeling with the carbene photogenerated from 3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-125I]iodophenyl)diazirine (125I]TID). This hydrophobic probe labels mostly lipophilin (the main intrinsic protein of myelin) and the lipids within the bilayer. The domains of lipophilin which are embedded within the membrane have been identified by proteolytic fragmentation of the 125I]TID-labeled myelin, extraction with organic solvents, and separation by chromatography. Four labeled peptides were purified in this way. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, amino acid compositions, automated sequencing, and carboxy-terminal analyses identified a 15K molecular weight peptide, T1 (residues 1-143), as representing the amino-terminal fragment, a 10K peptide, T2 (residues 1-97), representing a smaller amino-terminal fragment, a 5K peptide, T4 (residues 53-97), which represented the COOH-terminal half of peptide T2, and a 7K peptide, T3 (residues 205-268), which represented a sequence near the COOH terminus of lipophilin. The specific radioactivities of the peptides were determined; peptides T1 and T2 had similar specific activities, which were twice the specific activities of peptides T3 and T4. The data provide direct chemical evidence that human lipophilin has membrane-embedded domains between residues 1-97, 53-97, and 205-268, in agreement with some of the predictions of other investigators based on the sequence of bovine myelin lipophilin (proteolipid apoprotein) and a hydrophobicity diagram.
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