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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-9-4
pubmed:abstractText
Class V myosins are molecular motors used for intracellular transportation and organelle tethering. The mouse Myosin Va (MyoVa) is encoded by the dilute locus, which is alternatively spliced to generate several tissue specific isoforms. The tail of MyoVa is the putative cargo-binding domain. To determine the functions of different isoforms of MyoVa and the minimal cargo-binding region, we tagged various isoforms and different portions of the mouse MyoVa tail with a green fluorescent protein and examined their intracellular localizations in the mouse melan-a cells. We found that the amino acid sequence encoded by an alternatively spliced exon, exon F, is necessary for the selective binding of MyoVa to melanosome. The MyoVa isoforms lacking this amino acid sequence are not targeted to the melanosomes, but localized to the perinuclear region instead. These findings suggested that MyoVa is able to bind to more than one types of cargos, with the selectivities determined by alternative spliced sequences.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0886-1544
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
53
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
89-102
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Alternative Splicing, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Biological Transport, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Green Fluorescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Luminescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Melanocytes, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Molecular Motor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Myosin Heavy Chains, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Myosin Type V, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-PC12 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Protein Isoforms, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:12211107-Recombinant Fusion Proteins
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
A tissue-specific exon of myosin Va is responsible for selective cargo binding in melanocytes.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't