| First Author | Menon RP | Year | 2000 |
| Journal | FEBS Lett | Volume | 470 |
| Issue | 3 | Pages | 227-31 |
| PubMed ID | 10745073 | Mgi Jnum | J:61468 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:1355019 | Doi | 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01310-7 |
| Citation | Menon RP, et al. (2000) Interaction of a novel cysteine and histidine-rich cytoplasmic protein with galectin-3 in a carbohydrate-independent manner. FEBS Lett 470(3):227-31 |
| abstractText | We have used the yeast two-hybrid system to search for cytoplasmic proteins that might assist in the intracellular trafficking of the soluble beta-galactoside-binding protein, galectin-3. We utilised as bait murine full-length galectin-3 to screen a murine 3T3 cDNA library. Several interacting clones were found to encode a partial open reading frame and a full-length clone was obtained by rapid amplification of cDNA ends methodology. In various assays in vitro the novel protein was shown to bind galectin-3 in a carbohydrate-independent manner. The novel protein contains an unusually high content of cysteine and histidine residues and shows significant sequence homologies with several metal ion-binding motifs present in known proteins. Confocal immunofluorescence microscopy of permeabilised 3T3 cells shows a prominent perinuclear, as well as cytoplasmic, localisation of the novel protein. |
