title: Clathrin assembly protein AP180: primary structure, domain organization and identification of a clathrin binding site.
abstract: Binding of AP180 to clathrin triskelia induces their assembly into 60-70 nm coats. The largest rat brain cDNA clone isolated predicts a molecular weight of 91,430 for AP180. Two cDNA clones have an additional small 57 bp insert. The deduced molecular weight agrees with gel filtration results provided the more chaotropic denaturant 6 M guanidinium thiocyanate is substituted for the weaker guanidinium chloride. The sequence and the proteolytic cleavage pattern suggest a three domain structure. The N-terminal 300 residues (pI 8.7) harbour a clathrin binding site. An acidic middle domain (pI 3.6, 450 residues), interrupted by an uncharged alanine rich segment of 59 residues, appears to be responsible for the anomalous physical properties of AP180. The C-terminal domain (166 residues) has a pI of 10.4. AP180 mRNA is restricted to neuronal sources. AP180 shows no significant homology to known clathrin binding proteins, but is nearly identical to a mouse phosphoprotein (F1-20). This protein, localized to synaptic termini, has so far been of unknown function.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schröder
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Plessmann
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ungewickell
mesh_terms: D033942:Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002417:Cattle; D002966:Clathrin / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D034041:Monomeric Clathrin Assembly Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D033942:Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport; D002966:Clathrin; D034041:Monomeric Clathrin Assembly Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; C439023:clathrin assembly protein AP180; D004247:DNA