Biochemical characterization and intracellular localization of the Menkes disease protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - Tập 93 Số 24 - Trang 14030-14035 - 1996
Yukitoshi Yamaguchi1, Mark E. Heiny1, Mariko Suzuki1, Jonathan D. Gitlin1
1Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110

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Menkes disease is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder of childhood due to the absence or dysfunction of a putative copper-transporting P-type ATPase encoded on the X chromosome. To elucidate the biosynthesis and subcellular localization of this protein, polyclonal antisera were generated against a bacterial fusion protein encoding the 4th to 6th copper-binding domains in the amino terminus of the human Menkes protein. RNA blot analysis revealed abundant Menkes gene expression in several cell lines, and immunoblotting studies utilizing this antiserum readily detected a 178-kDa protein in lysates from these cells. Pulse–chase studies indicate that this protein is synthesized as a single-chain polypeptide which is modified by N-linked glycosylation to a mature endoglycosidase H-resistant form. Sucrose gradient fractionation of HeLa cell lysates followed by immunoblotting of individual fractions with antibodies to proteins of known intracellular location identified the Menkes ATPase in fractions similar to those containing the cation-independent mannose-6-phosphate receptor. Consistent with this observation, confocal immunofluorescence studies of these same cells localized this protein to the trans-Golgi network and a vesicular compartment with no expression in the nucleus or on the plasma membrane. Taken together, these data provide a unique model of copper transport into the secretory pathway of mammalian cells which is compatible with clinical observations in affected patients and with recent data on homologous proteins identified in prokaryotes and yeast.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Tập 93 Số 24

14030-14035

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