Anion exchanger 1 (AE1) is a 95 kDa glycoprotein that facilitates Cl-/HCO3- exchange across the erythrocyte plasma membrane. Seven conserved tryptophan (Trp) residues are in the AE1 membrane domain; at the membrane interface (Trp648, Trp662, and Trp723), in transmembrane segment (TM) 4 (Trp492 and Trp496), and in hydrophilic loops (Trp831, and Trp848). All 7 Trp residues were individually mutated into alanine (Ala) and phenylalanine (Phe) and transiently expressed in human embryonic kidney (HEK)-293 cells. The 7 Trp residues could be grouped into three classes according to the impact of the mutations on the functional expression of AE1: class 1, normal expression, class 2, expression decreased, and class 3, expression decreased by Ala substitution. These results indicate that Trp residues play differential roles in AE1 expression depending on their location in the protein and suggest that Trp mutants with a low expression are misfolded and retained in the ER.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/32614 |
| Date | 15 August 2012 |
| Creators | Okawa, Yuka |
| Contributors | Reithmeier, Reinhart A. F. |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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