HEAT-SHOCK ENHANCES THE AMOUNT OF PRENYLATED DNAJ PROTEIN AT MEMBRANES OF GLYOXYSOMES

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PREISIGMULLER, R [1 ]
MUSTER, G [1 ]
KINDL, H [1 ]
机构
[1] PHILIPPS UNIV, FB CHEM, D-35032 MARBURG, GERMANY
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY | 1994年 / 219卷 / 1-2期
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10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb19914.x
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Proteins similar to the bacterial Dnaj protein have been implicated as molecular chaperones in different compartments of eukaryots. A plant equivalent is now described in tissues of dark-grown cucumber seedlings. Using a cucumber Dnaj protein produced by expression in bacteria, we raised polyclonal antibodies against the protein and used them for localization studies. In etiolated cucumber seedlings, both cotyledons and hypocotyledons were found to contain Dnaj proteins. Cell fractionation of etiolated cotyledons showed that Dnaj proteins were detectable mainly in the postnuclear cell fraction after sedimentation at 10000 Xg, and in the microsomes. Following subfractionation by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and analysis by immunoblotting, a 53-kDa protein was attributed to the glyoxysomal fraction and an 80-kDa protein to the mitochondrial fraction. The glyoxysomal Dnaj protein behaved as a membrane-bound form. Upon heat shock, a slight increase in the content of the glyoxysomal Dnaj protein was found. When glyoxysomes were treated with protease and subsequently isolated by gradient centrifugation, virtually all immunologically detectable Dnaj protein was removed. Administration of radiolabelled mevalonic acid to cotyledons and isolation of glyoxysomes yielded labelled Dnaj protein which remained membrane bound during the purification of glyoxysomal membranes by floatation in a density gradient.
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