Schäfer, Balázs and Orban, E. and Kele, Zoltán and Tömböly, Csaba (2015) Tritium labelling of a cholesterol amphiphile designed for cell membrane anchoring of proteins. JOURNAL OF LABELLED COMPOUNDS & RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS, 58 (1). pp. 7-13. ISSN 0362-4803
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Abstract
Cell membrane association of proteins can be achieved by the addition of lipid moieties to the polypeptide chain, and such lipid-modified proteins have important biological functions. A class of cell surface proteins contains a complex glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) glycolipid at the C-terminus, and they are accumulated in cholesterol-rich membrane microdomains, that is, lipid rafts. Semisynthetic lipoproteins prepared from recombinant proteins and designed lipids are valuable probes and model systems of the membrane-associated proteins. Because GPI-anchored proteins can be reinserted into the cell membrane with the retention of the biological function, they are appropriate candidates for preparing models via reduction of the structural complexity. A synthetic headgroup was added to the 3beta-hydroxyl group of cholesterol, an essential lipid component of rafts, and the resulting cholesterol derivative was used as a simplified GPI mimetic. In order to quantitate the membrane integrated GPI mimetic after the exogenous addition to live cells, a tritium labelled cholesterol anchor was prepared. The radioactive label was introduced into the headgroup, and the radiolabelled GPI mimetic anchor was obtained with a specific activity of 1.37 TBq/mmol. The headgroup labelled cholesterol derivative was applied to demonstrate the sensitive detection of the cell membrane association of the anchor under in vivo conditions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Q Science / természettudomány > QD Chemistry / kémia |
SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2015 23:59 |
Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2016 23:15 |
URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/28130 |
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