Journal of Life Science (생명과학회지)

Korean Society of Life Science (한국생명과학회)
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Overexpression of ER Resident Molecular Chaperones and Characterization of Their Interaction with Thyroglobulin in FRTL5 cells.

GRP94는 thyroglobulin의 folding에 관여한다.

  • Seong, Yeon-Mun (Department of Radiologic Technology, Taegu Health College) ;
  • Shong, MinHo (Department Internal Medicine Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kwon, O-Yu (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University)
  • Published : 1999.02.01
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Abstract

Mammalial expression vectors containing GRP94, BiP, ERp72, and PDI, were introduced into FRTL5 cells. Transfected cells were selected by neomycin resistance for exogenously overexpressed proteins in the ER. The use of a reducible cross-linker, DSP, markedly improved the ability to detect noncovalent interactions of PDI, BiP and GRP94 with newly-synthesized thyroglobulin. Under normal conditions, GRP94 was found to associate transiently with early Tg folding intermediates, displaying interaction kinetics similar to those reported for another ER chaperones of BiP.

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)내에 단백질의 folding과 안정화에 관여하는 단백질을 molecular cha-perone이라고 한다. GRP94 역시 ER내에 존재하는 molecular chaperone으로 알려지고 있지만 갑상선세포에서 단백질의 folding에 관여한다는 증거는 아직 불충분하다. 본 설험은 molecular chaperone을 세포내에서 overexpression시킬 수 있는 system을 확립하였다. 그 중에서 GRP94가 단백질의 folding에 직접적으로 관여한다는 증거를 얻기 위하여, endogenous GRP94를 code한 cDNA를 overexpression vector에 의해서 forced expression시킴으로 신생thyroglobulin의 folding에 직접적으로 관여하는 증거를 immun-oprecipitation으로 증명하였다.

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