title: Mechanisms of plasma membrane protein degradation: recycling proteins are degraded more rapidly than those confined to the cell surface.
abstract: Plasma membrane proteins of intact mouse 3T3 fibroblasts and H4-II-E-C3 hepatoma cells were separated into two groups based on their compartmentation between the cell surface and an intracellular compartment accessible at 20 degrees C but not at 0 degrees C. One group was derivatized at 0 degrees C with sulfosuccinimidyl 2-(biotinamido)ethyl-1,3-dithiopropionate but not at 20 degrees C. The second group was derivatized at 20 degrees C as well as at 0 degrees C. Derivatized proteins were isolated from 35S-labeled cells on streptavidin/agarose and resolved by two-dimensional PAGE. With few exceptions, pulse-chase experiments revealed that those proteins confined exclusively to the cell surface turned over slowly (t1/2, greater than 75 h), while those bimodally compartmentalized between the cell surface and the 20 degrees C accessible compartment were degraded more rapidly (t1/2, less than 31 h). These observations suggest a mechanism to explain the varied metabolic stability of plasma membrane proteins in which the half-life of each protein is determined by the proportion of time spent in the endocytic compartment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201-3098.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Hare
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D002451:Cell Compartmentation; D002460:Cell Line; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; D004705:Endocytosis; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000378:metabolism*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism; D008114:Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins