The binding of phosphatidylcholine to the phosphatidylcholine transfer protein: affinity and role in folding |
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Authors: | de Brouwer A P Bouma B van Tiel C M Heerma W Brouwers J F Bevers L E Westerman J Roelofsen B Wirtz K W |
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Institution: | Department of Biochemistry of Lipids, Institute of Biomembranes, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands. a.p.m.debrouwer@chem.uu.nl |
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Abstract: | Bovine liver phosphatidylcholine transfer protein (PC-TP) has been expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity from the cytosol fraction at a yield of 0.45 mg PC-TP per 10 mg total cytosolic protein. In addition, active PC-TP was obtained from inclusion bodies. An essential factor in the activation of PC-TP was phosphatidylcholine (PC) present in the folding buffer. PC-TP from the cytosol contains phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) with a preference for the di-monounsaturated species over the saturated species as determined by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS). By incubation with microsomal membranes the endogenous PE and PG were replaced by PC. Relative to the microsomal PC species composition, PC-TP bound preferentially C16:0/C20:4-PC and C16:0/C18:2-PC (twofold enriched) whereas the major microsomal species C18:0/C18:1-PC and C18:0/C18:2-PC were distinctly less bound. PC-TP is structurally homologous to the lipid-binding domain of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (Nat. Struct. Biol. 7 (2000) 408). Replacement of Lys(55) present in one of the beta-strands forming the lipid-binding site, with an isoleucine residue yielded an inactive protein. This suggests that Lys(55) be involved in the binding of the PC molecule. |
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