title: Small GTP binding proteins: Rab GTPases from the brain of Bombyx mori.
abstract: From a mRNA of the brain of Bombyx mori, we isolated 8 cDNA clones (BRabs), each of which encodes a different member of Rab-protein family. Four of them have more than 80% amino acid identity to the corresponding members of Drosophila Rab proteins. The other 4 proteins show low sequence similarity to any of the known Rab proteins. However, all of them contain the region conserved in rab protein. Using RACE (Rapid Amplification of cDNA ends), the one full-length cDNA clone (BRab14) was isolated. The clone was expressed in Escherichia coli as a glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion protein. After purification, the fusion protein was cut with protease to remove GST-Tag and applied to a glutathione S-Sepharose column. The protein bound [(3)H]-GDP with association constant of 1.02 x 10(11) M(-1). Further, the protein was phosphorylated by protein kinase. This result suggests that Rab protein in the brain of Bombyx mori binds GDP or GTP and its function is regulated by phosphorylation.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Department of Biofunctional Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University, Nada-ku Hyogo, Japan. unotom@kobe-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tomohide
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uno
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hiragaki
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D012831:Bombyx / Q000201:enzymology*; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D006153:Guanosine Diphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011485:Protein Binding; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D019476:Insect Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D006153:Guanosine Diphosphate; D020691:rab GTP-Binding Proteins