title: Purification of Golgi adaptor protein 1 from bovine adrenal gland and characterization of its beta 1 (beta') subunit by microsequencing.
abstract: A method for the purification of the Golgi adaptor protein 1 from bovine adrenal gland tissue was devised to investigate the relationship of its beta 1 (formerly referred to as beta') subunit to known beta-type sequences. Adrenal gland tissue was chosen for this study because it yielded 2-3 times more adaptor protein 1 than a comparable preparation from bovine brain. Like its neuronal isoform, the beta 1 subunit from adrenal gland adaptor protein 1 is readily cleaved by trypsin into a 63-kDa N-terminal fragment and a 40-kDa C-terminal fragment, while the gamma subunit is largely refractory to digestion. Based on microsequencing of 167 residues from the 63-kDa fragment, we noted 11 differences to the corresponding region of the beta 2 (formerly beta) subunit of the plasma membrane adaptor protein 2, but only one difference to the corresponding region of a beta-type protein encoded by the rat cDNA clone AP105a which is supposed to be a variant of the beta 2 subunit of the plasma membrane adaptor protein 2 [Kirchhausen, T., Nathanson, K. L., Matsui, W., Vaisberg, A., Chow, E. P., Burne, C., Keen, J. H. & Davis, A. E. (1989) Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 84, 8805-8809]. Alignment of 187 residues from the 40-kDa beta 1 C-terminal fragment revealed differences in 77 positions to the corresponding region of the beta 2 subunit and differences in 23 positions compared to the supposed beta 2-like protein. These findings suggest that the protein encoded by the rat cDNA clone AP105a is more closely related to the beta 1 subunit of the bovine adrenal Golgi adaptor protein 1 than to the beta 2 subunit of the rat plasma membrane adaptor protein 2.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ungewickell
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Plessmann
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D033961:Adaptor Protein Complex 1; D033965:Adaptor Protein Complex alpha Subunits; D033942:Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport; D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000737:chemistry*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002417:Cattle; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D051381:Rats; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D033961:Adaptor Protein Complex 1; D033965:Adaptor Protein Complex alpha Subunits; D033942:Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport; C439105:Golgi adaptor protein 1, bovine; D011506:Proteins