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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-10-25
pubmed:abstractText
The myristoylated alanine-rich C kinase substrate (MARCKS) has been proposed to regulate the plasticity of the actin cytoskeleton at its site of attachment to membranes. In macrophages, MARCKS is implicated in various cellular events including motility, adhesion and phagocytosis. In this report we show that macrophage extracts contain a protease which specifically cleaves human MARCKS, expressed in a cell-free system or in E. coli, between Lys-6 and Thr-7. Cleavage of MARCKS decreases its affinity for macrophage membranes by ca. one order of magnitude, highlighting the contribution of the myristoyl moiety of MARCKS to membrane binding. Importantly, cleavage requires myristoylation of MARCKS. Furthermore, MARCKS-related protein (MRP), the second member of the MARCKS family, is not digested. Since Thr-7 is lacking in MRP this suggests that Thr-7 at the P1 position is important for the recognition of lipid-modified substrates. A different product is observed when MARCKS is incubated with a calf brain cytosolic extract. This product can be remyristoylated in the presence of myristoyl-CoA and N-myristoyl transferase, demonstrating that cycles of myristoylation/demyristoylation of MARCKS can be achieved in vitro. Although the physiological relevance of these enzymes still needs to be demonstrated, our results reveal the presence of a new class of cleaving enzymes recognizing lipid-modified protein substrates.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0300-9084
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
705-15
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Cell-Free System, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Consensus Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Macrophages, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Myristic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11018286-Substrate Specificity
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Myristoylation-dependent N-terminal cleavage of the myristoylated alanine-rich C kinase substrate (MARCKS) by cellular extracts.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't