title: Immunochemical characterization of the adenine nucleotide translocator. Organ specificity and conformation specificity.
abstract: Antibodies have been prepared against purified preparations of the heart and kidney nucleotide translocator in the 'c'-conformation. The results show organ-specific antigenic determinants on the translocator proteins isolated from heart, kidney and liver although a partial cross-reactivity between these three proteins was demonstrable. The organ specificity was observed both with the solubilized and with the membrane-bound translocator protein indicating organ-specific determinants on exposed regions of the carrier. An organ-specific inhibition of the nucleotide transport in heart mitochondria by the heart carboxyatractylate-protein antiserum leads to the conclusion that the organ specificity is at least partially conditioned by the binding site for the substrate and/or the closely linked gate of the carrier protein. Apart from the organ specificity the results also demonstrate a specificity of the antibodies for the translocational conformations of the carrier: the 'c'-conformation stabilized in the carboxyatractylate-protein complex and the 'm'-conformation present in the bongkrekate-protein complex. However, after denaturation of the carboxytraktylate-protein and bongkrekate-protein complexes the binding of the anti-(carboxyatractylate-protein) antiserum to both inhibitor-protein complexes was nearly identical. The conformation specificity was also expressed by the inhibition of the conformation transition from the 'c'- to the 'm'- state. This side-specific inhibition of the nucleotide transport and the identical binding activity of the carboxyatractylate-protein antiserum against the denatured carboxyatractylate-protein and bongkrekate-protein complexes suggested that the conformation-specific antigenic determinants are topographic surface regions which are determined by the chain folding.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D002417:Cattle; D007120:Immunochemistry; D007163:Immunosorbent Techniques; D007668:Kidney / Q000201:enzymology; D008929:Mitochondria, Heart / Q000201:enzymology; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D000226:Mitochondrial ADP, ATP Translocases / Q000276:immunology; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000276:immunology; D009928:Organ Specificity; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D011863:Radioimmunoassay / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000226:Mitochondrial ADP, ATP Translocases; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases