title: Immunological and structural conservation of mammalian skeletal muscle glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked ADP-ribosyltransferases.
abstract: NAD:arginine ADP-ribosyltransferases catalyze the ADP-ribosylation of arginine residues in proteins. Coding region nucleic acid and deduced amino acid sequences of a human skeletal muscle ADP-ribosyltransferase cDNA were, respectively, 80.8% and 81.3% identical to those of the rabbit skeletal muscle transferase. A human transferase-specific cDNA probe detected major mRNA of 1.2 kb (mouse and rat), 3.0 kb (rabbit), 3.8 kb (monkey), and 5.7 kb (human) upon Northern analysis. Polyclonal anti-rabbit ADP-ribosyltransferase antibodies reacted with 36,000 M(r) proteins in partially purified transferase preparations from bovine, dog, and rabbit heart muscle and a 40,000 M(r) protein from human skeletal muscle. The human muscle ADP-ribosyltransferase cDNA, like the previously cloned rabbit muscle transferase, predicts predominantly hydrophobic amino- and carboxy-terminal amino acid sequences, which is characteristic of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins. On immunoblots of partially purified rabbit and human skeletal muscle ADP-ribosyltransferases, anti-cross-reacting determinant antibodies detected at 36,000 and 40,000 M(r), respectively, phosphatidylinositol-specific, phospholipase C-sensitive, GPI-anchored proteins. These data are consistent with the conclusion that GPI-anchored skeletal and cardiac muscle ADP-ribosyltransferases are conserved across mammalian species.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
authors.forename: I J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Okazaki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zolkiewska
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Nightingale
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moss
mesh_terms: D036002:ADP Ribose Transferases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D015342:DNA Probes; D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008325:Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000201:enzymology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D017385:Sequence Homology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; D017261:Glycosylphosphatidylinositols; D036002:ADP Ribose Transferases; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase