title: Evidence for age-related deamidation reactions in erythrocyte p55 and glycophorins C and D: implications for signal transduction involving tumour-suppressor proteins in higher eukaryotes.
abstract: The methylation of erythrocyte cytoskeletal proteins by methyltransferases is a strategy for the repair of deamidated asparagine residues. Evidence from extant data shows that the junction point proteins of the erythrocyte cytoskeleton, band 3, ankyrin, glycophorins C/D, band 4.1, calmodulin, and p55 are all methylated in situ. It is suggested that sequence-dependent deamidation of asparagine residues in p55, 4.1 and glycophorins C/D could affect the interactions of these junction point proteins in an age-dependent manner. Comparison of the asparagine content of 4.1 binding regions of p55 analogues dlg and hdlg acts as a caveat to the extrapolation of findings made in erythrocytes to other eukaryotic cells, and has important implications for transmembrane signalling pathways and age-dependent changes in the membrane-binding characteristics of tumour-suppressor proteins in higher cell systems.
authors.affiliation: MRC Cell Biophysics Unit, London, UK.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Lofthouse
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001216:Asparagine / Q000378:metabolism*; D004910:Erythrocyte Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D006021:Glycophorins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D008745:Methylation; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D006021:Glycophorins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D001216:Asparagine