PMID: 7028746Dec 10, 1981Paper

Synthesis and processing of in vitro and in vivo precursors of the vacuolar yeast enzyme carboxypeptidase Y.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
M Müller, H Müller

Abstract

The biosynthesis of carboxypeptidase Y, which is located in the lysosome-like vacuole of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been studied in vitro in a cell-free translation system from wheat germ and in vivo in intact spheroplasts. When a wheat germ system was programmed with yeast RNA, a translation product was immunoprecipitated by anti-carboxypeptidase Y antibodies, which had a slightly smaller molecular weight (Mr = 59,000) on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis than the authentic glycoprotein (Mr = 60,000). In the presence of dog pancreatic microsomal membranes, an additional cross-reacting translation product of Mr = 68,000 was formed, which in contrast to the 59,000-dalton form was not susceptible to digestion by externally added proteinases, suggesting its segregation within the microsomal vesicles. The observed increase in molecular weight may be consistent with a core glycosylation of the translocated protein. During a pulse-chase labeling of spheroplasts, the antibody initially precipitated a form of carboxypeptidase Y, which co-migrated on sodium dodecyl sulfate gels with the 68,000-dalton in vitro translation product. Following a chase of 60 min, this early labeled immunoreactive protein was comple...Continue Reading

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