First Author | Rich SA | Year | 1996 |
Journal | J Biol Chem | Volume | 271 |
Issue | 2 | Pages | 1118-26 |
PubMed ID | 8557639 | Mgi Jnum | J:328870 |
Mgi Id | MGI:7341355 | Doi | 10.1074/jbc.271.2.1118 |
Citation | Rich SA, et al. (1996) Purification, microsequencing, and immunolocalization of p36, a new interferon-alpha-induced protein that is associated with human lupus inclusions. J Biol Chem 271(2):1118-26 |
abstractText | The trace interferon-alpha-induced protein, p36, was induced in Raji cells in association with lupus inclusions. It was solubilized in a nonionic detergent buffer, enriched by differential centrifugation and by preparative isoelectric focusing, and purified to homogeneity on two-dimensional protein gels. Failure to obtain N-terminal amino acid sequence, however, suggested a blocked alpha-amino group. Sequences of six tryptic peptides, 13-19 amino acids in length, were obtained after digestion, microbore-high performance liquid chromotography purification, and chemical sequence analysis. None of the six sequences, which represented approximately 25% of the entire protein, shared any meaningful homologies with entries in protein sequence repositories. Raji-cell p36 was shown in Western blots with antipeptide antibodies to be induced at least 400-fold and by immunofluorescence microscopy to co-localize with the endoplasmic reticulum resident protein, protein disulfide isomerase. These results show that p36 is a new interferon-alpha-induced protein that localizes in the endoplasmic reticulum, the cell region in which the lupus inclusions form, and that p36 is probably physically associated with the lupus inclusions. |