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http://dx.doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2012.40.4.224

Analysis of Protein Domain for Interaction between α-COP and ε-COP in Aspergillus nidulans  

Song, Eun-Jung (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Kim, Ki-Hyun (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Hwan-Hee (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Park, Jeong-Seok (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Kang, Eun-Hye (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Park, Hee-Moon (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
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The Korean Journal of Mycology / v.40, no.4, 2012 , pp. 224-228 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to screen interactor(s) of the Aspergillus nidulans ${\alpha}$-COP of COPI vesicle, we performed the yeast two hybrid screening by using the gene for A. nidulans ${\alpha}$-COP as a bait and identified ${\varepsilon}$-COP of the COPI vesicle as an interacting protein. The A. nidualns gene for the ${\varepsilon}$-COP was designated $aneA^+$ ($\underline{A.}$ $\underline{n}$idulans $\underline{e}$psi-lone-COP), which encoded 296 amino acid residues with high level of identity with orthologs from other fungi. Domain analyses with yeast two-hybrid system suggested that the interaction between ${\alpha}$-COP and ${\varepsilon}$-COP relied on the C-terminus of both proteins, and that the N-terminal WD domian of ${\alpha}$-COP and the TPR region of ${\varepsilon}$-COP were not essential but required for the enhancement of the interaction. These results indicate that the interaction mode between ${\alpha}$-COP and ${\varepsilon}$-COP of COPI vesicle is evolutionarily well conserved in eukaryotes.
Keywords
Aspergillus nidulans; ${\alpha}$-COP; ${\varepsilon}$-COP; Yeast two-hybrid assay;
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