Characterization of p18, a component of the lamin B receptor complex and a new integral membrane protein of the avian erythrocyte nuclear envelope
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Simos, G.
Maison, C.
Georgatos, S. D.
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J Biol Chem
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Employing avian erythrocytes, we have previously isolated a multimeric complex consisting of the lamin B receptor (LBR, or p58), the nuclear lamins, an LBR-specific kinase, a 34-kDa protein, and an 18-kDa polypeptide termed p18. As the LBR kinase and the 34-kDa component have been recently characterized, we now proceed in the characterization of p18. We show here that p18 is an integral membrane protein specific to the erythrocyte nuclear envelope which binds to LBR and B-type lamins. NH2-terminal sequencing indicates that p18 is distinct from other nuclear envelope components, but has similarity to the mitochondrial isoquinoline-binding protein. In situ analysis by immunoelectron microscopy and examination of digitonin-permeabilized cells by indirect immunofluorescence show that p18, unlike LBR and other lamin-binding proteins, is equally distributed between the inner and outer nuclear membrane. Furthermore, cycloheximide inhibition experiments reveal that the fraction of p18 that resides in the outer nuclear membrane does not represent nascent chains en route to the inner nuclear membrane, but rather material in equilibrium with the p18 that partitions with the inner nuclear membrane. The paradigm of p18 suggests that transmembrane complexes formed by the nuclear lamins and LBR provide potential docking sites for integral membrane proteins of the nuclear envelope that equilibrate between the rough endoplasmic reticulum and the inner nuclear membrane.
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Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Erythrocytes/*metabolism/ultrastructure, Lamin Type B, Lamins, Membrane Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism, Microscopy, Immunoelectron, Molecular Sequence Data, Nuclear Envelope/*metabolism, Nuclear Proteins/metabolism, Protein Binding, Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/chemistry/*metabolism, Turkeys
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8647873
http://www.jbc.org/content/271/21/12617.full.pdf
http://www.jbc.org/content/271/21/12617.full.pdf
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Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Σχολή Επιστημών Υγείας. Τμήμα Ιατρικής