TY - JOUR
T1 - Isolation of an abundant 50,000-dalton actin filament bundling protein from dictyostelium amoebae
AU - Demma, Mark
AU - Warren, Vivien
AU - Hock, Rick
AU - Dharmawardhane, Suranganie
AU - Condeelis, John
PY - 1990/2/5
Y1 - 1990/2/5
N2 - A monomeric actin bundling protein with a native molecular weight of approximately 50,000 (ABP-50) has been isolated from amoebae of Dictyostelium discoideum. ABP-50 cross-links F-actin to form tightly packed bundles, some of which are highly ordered. It exhibits a Kd of 2.1 μM and a molar ratio to actin of 1:1 in bundles. Calcium and ATP at physiological concentrations have no effect on these activities. ABP-50 is immunologically unrelated to 30-kDa protein, a previously described bundling protein from Dictyostelium. Immunofluorescence with affinity-purified polyclonal antibodies indicates that ABP-50 is localized in regions of the amoeboid cell cortex containing actin bundles. The molar ratio of ABP-50 to actin is approximately 1:5 in vivo. Therefore, the abundance of ABP-50 suggests that it may be responsible for the majority of the bundling activity in these cells.
AB - A monomeric actin bundling protein with a native molecular weight of approximately 50,000 (ABP-50) has been isolated from amoebae of Dictyostelium discoideum. ABP-50 cross-links F-actin to form tightly packed bundles, some of which are highly ordered. It exhibits a Kd of 2.1 μM and a molar ratio to actin of 1:1 in bundles. Calcium and ATP at physiological concentrations have no effect on these activities. ABP-50 is immunologically unrelated to 30-kDa protein, a previously described bundling protein from Dictyostelium. Immunofluorescence with affinity-purified polyclonal antibodies indicates that ABP-50 is localized in regions of the amoeboid cell cortex containing actin bundles. The molar ratio of ABP-50 to actin is approximately 1:5 in vivo. Therefore, the abundance of ABP-50 suggests that it may be responsible for the majority of the bundling activity in these cells.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 2404981
AN - SCOPUS:0025002846
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 265
SP - 2286
EP - 2291
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 4
ER -