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  • Title: Chemical characterization of the membrane-anchoring domain of human placental alkaline phosphatase.
    Author: Ogata S, Hayashi Y, Takami N, Ikehara Y.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1988 Jul 25; 263(21):10489-94. PubMed ID: 3392021.
    Abstract:
    Membrane and soluble forms of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) were selectively prepared from human placental microsomes by treatment with 1-butanol at pH 8.5 and 5.5, respectively. The purified membrane (mALP) and soluble (sALP) forms were analyzed for chemical compositions. mALP was found to contain 1 mol each of palmitate, stearate, and glycerol/subunit of ALP, which were absent in sALP. Both the forms contained 1 mol of inositol and 2 mol of ethanolamine/subunit. However, none of these compounds was detectable in another soluble form prepared by treatment with papain, which is known to cleave the carboxyl-terminal region. The results suggest that mALP contains diacylglycerol, the removal of which results in its conversion to sALP. We then prepared [3H]ethanolamine-labeled ALP by incubating choriocarcinoma cells (JEG-3) with the isotope. 3H-Labeled sALP was mixed with unlabeled sALP and treated with papain. A 3H-labeled single component was purified from the digests by sequential chromatography through anti-ALP-IgG-Sepharose, concanavalin A-Sepharose, Bio-Gel P-6, and TSK G-2000 columns. Chemical analyses revealed that the purified sample contains the tripeptide Thr-Thr-Asp, ethanolamine, glucosamine, mannose, inositol, and phosphate. Molar ratios of the latter five compounds were calculated to be 2, 1, 3, 1, and 2, respectively, by taking Asp as 1 mol. The tripeptide sequence was identified at positions 482-484 in the primary structure deduced from the cDNA sequence, which predicts a further extension to position 513, containing a hydrophobic amino acid sequence. Taken together, these results suggest that the mature ALP molecule lacks the predicted carboxyl-terminal peptide extension and is attached at Asp484 with a glycosylphospholipid, the components of which are characterized above. The glycosylphospholipid thus attached is considered to function as the membrane anchor of ALP.
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