Cross-linking of bacteriorhodopsin using specific carboxyl modifications and proteolytic cleavage |
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Authors: | S Wu-Chou A E Robinson E Hrabeta L Packer |
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Institution: | 1. Membrane Bioenergetics Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 USA;2. Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 USA |
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Abstract: | Specific carboxyl modification of purple membrane using a water-soluble carbodiimide yielded a mixture of oligomers, revealed by gel electrophoresis. Purple membrane pre-treated with papain or trypsin, cleaving the C-terminal tail, showed the same pattern of cross-linked products. Chymotryptic cleavage released amino acids 1-72 (7kD fragment) from the cross-linked products, as it did with native membrane. The tail and helices A and B are not, therefore, involved in carbodiimide-promoted cross-linking. Similar cleavage of a hydrophobic dihydroquinoline-modified sample showed that mainly intra-molecular cross-linking occurs, with little cross-linking between the large and small chymotryptic fragments. |
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Keywords: | EDC 1-ethyl-3(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide EEDQ N-(ethoxycarbonyl)-2-ethoxy-1 2-dihydroxyquinoline GME glycine methyl ester hydrochloride AES 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid MES 2(N-morpholino) ethanesulfonic acid HEPES N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N′-2-ethanesulfonic acid Tris-HCl tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane hydrochloride SDS sodium dodecyl sulfate |
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