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  • Title: Purification and domain structure of core hnRNP proteins A1 and A2 and their relationship to single-stranded DNA-binding proteins.
    Author: Kumar A, Williams KR, Szer W.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1986 Aug 25; 261(24):11266-73. PubMed ID: 3733753.
    Abstract:
    Protein A1 (Mr approximately 32,000), a major glycine-rich protein of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNP), was purified to near homogeneity under nondenaturing conditions from HeLa cells. Limited proteolysis of the native protein yields a trypsin-resistant N-terminal nucleic acid-binding domain about 195 amino acids long which has a primary structure nearly identical to that of the 195-amino acid-long single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)-binding protein UP1 (Mr 22,162) from calf thymus (Williams, K.R., Stone, K. L., LoPresti, M.B., Merrill, B. M., and Planck, S.R. (1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82, 5666-5670). 45 of the 61 glycine residues of A1 are present in the trypsin-sensitive C-terminal domain of the protein which contains no sequences homologous to UP1. Protein A2, another major glycine-rich core hnRNP protein from HeLa, has a domain structure analogous to A1 and appears to be related to ssDNA-binding proteins UP1-B from calf liver and HDP-1 from mouse myeloma in a way similar to the A1/UP1 relationship. In contrast to ssDNA-binding proteins, A1 binds preferentially to RNA over ssDNA and exhibits no helix-destabilizing activity.
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