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Role of cysteine amino acid residues in calnexin.
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PMID:  21842374     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Calnexin is an endoplasmic reticulum protein that has a role in folding newly synthesized glycoproteins. In this study, we used site-specific mutagenesis to disrupt cysteine and histidine amino acid residues in the N- and P-domains of calnexin and determined whether these mutations impact the structure and function of calnexin. We identified that disruption of the N-domain cysteines resulted in significant loss of the chaperone activity of calnexin toward the glycosylated substrate, IgY, while disruption of the P-domain cysteines only had a small impact toward IgY. We observed that wild-type calnexin as well as the P-domain double cysteine mutant contained an intramolecular disulfide bond which is lost when the N-domain cysteines are mutated. Mutation to the N-domain histidine and N-domain cysteines resulted in increased binding of ERp57. Mutations to the P-domain cysteines further enhanced ERp57 binding to calnexin. Taken together, these observations indicated that the cysteine residues within calnexin were important for the structure and function of calnexin.
Authors:
Helen Coe; Jeannine D Schneider; Monika Dabrowska; Jody Groenendyk; Joanna Jung; Marek Michalak
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-8-13
Journal Detail:
Title:  Molecular and cellular biochemistry     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1573-4919     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-8-15     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0364456     Medline TA:  Mol Cell Biochem     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Departments of Pediatrics, School of Molecular and Systems Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2H7, Canada.
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