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  • Title: Incorporation of MAL, an integral protein element of the machinery for the glycolipid and cholesterol-mediated apical pathway of transport, into artificial membranes requires neither of these lipid species.
    Author: Puertollano R, Menéndez M, Alonso MA.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1999 Dec 20; 266(2):330-3. PubMed ID: 10600503.
    Abstract:
    The MAL proteolipid, an integral membrane protein with selective residence in glycolipid- and cholesterol-enriched membrane (GEM) microdomains, has recently been identified as being an element of the integral protein machinery necessary for apical transport in MDCK cells. With the use of a recombinant baculovirus, we have expressed and purified polyhistidine-tagged MAL to determine whether MAL has special lipid requirements for becoming incorporated into membranes. In contrast with caveolin-1, a component of GEMs that requires cholesterol for its integration into artificial membranes, MAL incorporation took place with dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine as the only lipid component. The presence of cholesterol, sphingomyelin, or galactocerebrosides did not affect the efficiency of this process. These results indicated that MAL is compatible with membranes containing either only phospholipids or also glycolipids and cholesterol and are consistent with the reported requirement of a sorting event for the specific targeting of MAL to GEM microdomains.
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