Résumé
Oxysterol-binding protein-related proteins are implicated in the sensing and transporting lipids at the membrane contact sites. One of the members of the mammalian ORP family, ORP8, is thought to transport lipids through directly tethering both ER and PM membranes. Targeting to PM is thought to be mediated by N-terminal pleckstrin homology domain via binding to phosphoinositides. Sequence alignments and NMR structural determination revealed that the PH domain of ORP8 is atypical and contains an insertion of 20 amino acids in an unstructured loop region that may potentially block interactions with ligands. Using standard lipid-protein overlay assays or liposomal binding assays we could not detect binding of a recombinant version of the PH domain. Examination of a series of deletion constructs demonstrated that both the N-terminal polybasic region and the PH domain are required for proper targeting of the short splice variant ORP8S to the PM-ER contact site in Chinese hamster ovary cells.
Langue d'origine | English |
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Pages (de-à) | 1088-1094 |
Nombre de pages | 7 |
Journal | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |
Volume | 496 |
Numéro de publication | 4 |
DOI | |
Statut de publication | Published - févr. 19 2018 |
Publié à l'externe | Oui |
Note bibliographique
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by Operating Grant MOP-133656 and a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and an Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario . M.L. is supported in part by scholarships from the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and a Government of Ontario Graduate Scholarship. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest with the contents of this article.
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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't