tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: Calreticulin–melatonin An unexpected relationship

Increasing evidence suggests that melatonin can exert some effect at nuclear level. Previous experiments using binding techniques clearly showed the existence of specificmelatonin binding sites in cell nucleus of rat liver. To further identify these sites, nuclear extracts fromrathepatocyteswere treated withdifferent percentages of ammoniumsulfate andpurified by affinity chromatography. Subsequent ligandblot analysis shows the presence of two polypeptides of 60 and 74 kDa that bind specifically to melatonin. . | Eur. J. Biochem. 270 832-840 2003 FEBS 2003 doi Calreticulin-melatonin An unexpected relationship Manuel Macias 1 Germaine Escames1 Josefa Leon1 Ana Coto3 Younes Sbihi2. Antonio Osuna2 and Dario Acuna-Castroviejo1 1 Departamento de Fisiologia and 2Instituto de Biotecnologia Universidad de Granada Spain 3Departamento de Morfologia y Biologia Celular Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Oviedo Spain Increasing evidence suggests that melatonin can exert some effect at nuclear level. Previous experiments using binding techniques clearly showed the existence of specific melatonin binding sites in cell nucleus of rat liver. To further identify these sites nuclear extracts from rat hepatocytes were treated with different percentages of ammonium sulfate and purified by affinity chromatography. Subsequent ligand blot analysis shows the presence of two polypeptides of w 60 and w 74 kDa that bind specifically to melatonin. N-Terminal sequence analysis showed that the 60 kDa protein shares a high homology with rat calreticulin whereas the 74 kDa protein shows no homology with any known protein. The binding of melatonin to calreticulin was further characterized incubating 2- 125I melatonin with recombinant calreticulin. Binding kinetics show a Kd nM and Bmax 290 34 fmol-mg protein-1 compatible with other binding sites of melatonin in the cell. The presence of calreticulin was further identified by Western blot analysis and the lack of endoplasmic reticulum contamination in our material was assessed by Western blot and immunostaining with anti-calnexin Ig. The results suggest that calreticulin may represent a new class of high-affinity melatonin binding sites involved in some functions of the indoleamine including genomic regulation. Keywords affinity chromatography calreticulin melatonin nuclear receptor purification receptor binding. Melatonin is a highly preserved molecule throughout phylogeny. It appears in very ancient unicellular .

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