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F Rosenberger

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PubMed1998

A novel adaptor protein orchestrates receptor patterning and cytoskeletal polarity in T-cell contacts.

Recognition of antigen by T cells requires the formation of a specialized junction between the T cell and the antigen-presenting cell. This junction is generated by the recruitment and the exclusion of specific proteins from the contact area. The mechanisms that regulate these events are unknown. Here we demonstrate that ligand engagement of the adhesion molecule, CD2, initiates a process of protein segregation, CD2 clustering, and cytoskeletal polarization. Although protein segregation was not dependent on the cytoplasmic domain of CD2, CD2 clustering and cytoskeletal polarization required an interaction of the CD2 cytoplasmic domain with a novel SH3-containing protein. This novel protein, called CD2AP, is likely to facilitate receptor patterning in the contact area by linking specific adhesion receptors to the cytoskeleton.

Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing↗
PubMed1998

Effects of microheterogeneity in hen egg-white lysozyme crystallization.

In earlier sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) studies it has been found that commonly utilized commercial hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) preparations contained 0.2-0.4 mol% covalently bound dimers. Here it is shown, using high-performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE), that HEWL contains, in addition, two differently charged monomers in comparable amounts. To explore the origin of these microheterogeneous contaminants, purified HEWL (PHEWL) has been oxidized with hydrogen peroxide (0.0026-0.88 M) at various pH levels between 4.5 and 12.0. Optical densitometry of oxidized PHEWL (OHEWL) bands in SDS-PAGE gels shows that hydrogen peroxide at 0.88 M in acetate buffer pH 4.5 increased the amount of dimers about sixfold over that in commercial HEWL. OHEWL had, in addition to one of the two monomer forms found in HEWL and PHEWL, three other differently charged monomer forms, each of them representing about 25% of the preparation. SDS-PAGE analysis of OHEWL yielded two closely spaced dimer bands with Mr = 28000 and 27500. In addition, larger HEWL oligomers with Mr = 1.7 million and 320000 were detected by gel-filtration fast protein liquid chromatography with multiangle laser light scattering detection. Non-dissociating PAGE in large pore size gels at pH 4.5 confirmed the presence of these large oligomers in HEWL and OHEWL. Increased microheterogeneity resulted in substantial effects on crystal growth and nucleation rate. On addition of 10 microgram-1 mg ml-1 OHEWL to 32 mg ml-1 HEWL crystallizing solutions, both the number and size of forming crystals decreased roughly proportionally to the concentration of the added microheterogeneity. The same effect was observed in HEWL solutions on addition of 0.03-0.3 M hydrogen peroxide. Repartitioning of the dimer during crystallization at various temperatures between 277 and 293 K was analyzed by SDS-PAGE. The crystals contained </= 25%(w/w) of the oligomers in the solution, with no apparent temperature dependence of the repartitioning.

Animals↗
PubMed1992

Adenine nucleotide-induced inhibition of binding of sulphonylureas to their receptor in pancreatic islets.

1. The effects of the Mg complex of adenosine 5'-triphosphate (MgATP) on binding of sulphonylureas to microsomes obtained from mouse pancreatic islets were examined. 2. MgATP inhibited the binding of both glibenclamide and tolbutamide to microsomes. 3. Binding of [3H]-glibenclamide inhibited by MgATP was not further diminished by Mg(2+)-bound adenosine 5'-(beta, gamma-imidotriphosphate) (AMP-PNP) or free adenosine 5'-diphosphate (ADP). Higher concentrations of MgAMP-PNP induced a partial reversal of the inhibitory effect of MgATP on [3H]-glibenclamide binding. 4. The apparent dissociation constant (K'D) for binding of [3H]- glibenclamide remained constant when 5. Extracellular ADP did not markedly stimulate insulin release from mouse pancreatic islets. 6. It is concluded that sulphonylureas and cytosolic nucleotides exert their inhibitory effects on the K-ATP-channels of beta-cells by binding to different sites. The binding properties of the sulphonylurea receptor seem to be modulated by protein phosphorylation.

Adenine Nucleotides↗
PubMed1990

Tolbutamide-sensitivity of the adenosine 5'-triphosphate-dependent K+ channel in mouse pancreatic B-cells.

The patch-clamp technique was used to examine the tolbutamide-sensitivity of the adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP)-dependent K+ channel in mouse pancreatic B-cells. When studied at 37 degrees C in cell-attached membrane patches, this channel had a single-channel conductance of 88 pS and was half-maximally inhibited by 2.2 mumol/l tolbutamide in the presence of 3 mmol/l D-glucose and 10 mumol/l nifedipine. The tolbutamide-induced decrease in the amplitude of the single-channel currents indicated that the membrane potential was sufficiently depolarized for initiation of insulin release by 30 but not by 10 mumol/l of tolbutamide. Using 300 mumol/l diazoxide to open the ATP-dependent K+ channels already closed by 3 mmol/l D-glucose alone, it was demonstrated that initiation of insulin release requires closure of more than 98% of all ATP-dependent K+ channels. In excised inside-out membrane patches, the K+ channel-blocking potency of tolbutamide was maximally enhanced by 0.3 mmol/l adenosine 5'-diphosphate (ADP) at the cytoplasmic side. This ADP effect required the presence of Mg2+. Inhibition of K+ channel activity by ATP, ADP (Mg2(+)-free) or their non-hydrolyzable analogues adenylyl-imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP) and alpha, beta methylene adenosine 5'-diphosphate (AMP-CP) was not accompanied by enhancement of tolbutamide-sensitivity. The results suggest that cytosolic MgADP controls tolbutamide-sensitivity by interaction with a receptor site not identical with the site mediating channel closure and that this control plays a role in the intact B-cell.

Action Potentials↗