Characterization and expression of the cDNA encoding a new kind of phospholipid transfer protein, the phosphatidylglycerol/phosphatidylinositol transfer protein from Aspergillus oryzae: Evidence of a putative membrane targeted phospholipid transfer protein in fungi

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1444, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 276-282

  Record, Eric ^a   Moukha, Serge ^a   Asther, Marcel ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

(Aspergillus oryzae); CDNA sequencing; Filamentous fungi; Molecular cloning; Phospholipid transfer protein

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHOLIPID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEINS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033574029     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(98)00272-3     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. M. Yamada, Lipid transfer proteins in plants and microorganisms, Plant Cell Physiol. 33 (1992) 1-6.
2. G. Daum, F. Paltauf, Lipid transport in microorganisms, Experientia 46 (1990) 586-592.
3. V. Arondel, J.C. Kader, Lipid transfer in plants, Experientia 46 (1990) 579-585.
4. F. Bourgis, J.C. Kader, Lipid-transfer proteins: tools for manipulating membrane lipids, Physiol. Plant. 100 (1997) 78-84.
5. K.W.A. Wirtz, Phospholipid transfer proteins, Annu. Rev. Biochem. 60 (1991) 73-99.
6. K.W.A. Wirtz, Phospholipid transfer proteins revisited, Biochem. J. 324 (1997) 353-360.
7. V. A Bankaitis, D.E. Malehorn, S.F. Emr, R. Greene, The Saccharomyces cerevisiae SEC 14 gene encodes a cytosolic factor that is required for transport of secretory proteins from the yeast Golgi complex, J. Cell Biol. 108 (1989) 1271-1281.
8. V.A. Bankaitis, J.R. Aitken, A.E. Cleves, W. Dowhan, An essential role for a phospholipid transfer protein in yeast Golgi function, Nature 347 (1990) 561-562.
9. 2+-activated secretion, Nature 366 (1993) 572-575.
10. A. Kauffmann-Zeh, G.M.H. Thomas, A. Ball, S. Prosser, E. Cunningham, S. Cockroft, J.J. Hsuan, Requirement for phosphatidylinositol transfer protein in epidermal growth factor signaling, Science 268 (1995) 1188-1190.
11. B.P.A. Cammue, K. Thevisen, M. Hendriks, K. Eggermont, I.J. Goderis, P. Proost, J. VanDamme, R.W. Osborn, F. Guerbette, J.C. Kader, W.F. Broek, A potent antimicrobial protein from onion seeds showing sequence homology to plant lipid transfer proteins, Plant Physiol. 109 (1995) 445-455.
12. E. Record, L. Lesage, D. Marion, B. Cahagnier, D. Richard-Molard, M. Asther, Filamentous fungus for binding and transporting lipids, method for preparing them, and their applications, 1994, European Patent 0644898; 1998, US Patent 5,717,070.
13. E. Record, L. Lesage, B. Cahagnier, D. Marion, M. Asther, Filamentous fungi with high cytosolic phospholipid transfer activity in the presence of exogenous phospholipid, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60 (1994) 339-3395.
14. E. Record, Mi. Asther, D. Marion, M. Asther, Purification and characterization of a phosphatidylglycerol-phosphatidylinositol transfer protein with high activity from Aspergillus oryzae, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1256 (1995) 18-24.
15. H.H. Kamp, K.W.A. Wirtz, L.L.M. Van Deenen, Some properties of phosphatidylcholine exchange protein purified from beef liver, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 318 (1973) 313-325.
16. L.M.G. Van Golde, V. Oldenborg, M. Post, J.J. Batenburg, Phospholipid transfer protein in rat lung, J. Biol. Chem. 255 (1980) 6011-6013.
17. D.G. Rueckert, K. Schmidt, Lipid transfer protein, Chem. Phys. Lipids 56 (1990) 1-20.
18. E. Record, Mi. Asther, S. Moukha, D. Marion, V. Burlat, K. Ruel, M. Asther, Localization of a phosphatidylglycerol/ phosphatidylinositol transfer protein in Aspergillus oryzae, Can. J. Microbiol., in press.
19. J.G.H. Wessels, G.H. Mulder, J. Springer, Expression of dikaryon-specific and non specific mRNAs of Schizophylum commune in relation to environmental conditions and fruiting, J. Gen. Microbiol. 133 (1987) 2557-2561.
20. M.A. Frohman, M.K. Dush, G.R. Martin, Rapid isolation of full-length cDNAs from rare transcripts: amplification using a single gene-specific oligonucleotide primer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85 (1988) 8998-9002.
21. R. Jain, R.H. Gomer, J.J. Murtagh Jr., Increasing specificity from the PCR-RACE technique, Biotechniques 12 (1992) 58-59.
22. S.F. Altschul, T.L. Madden, A.A. Schäffer, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, W. Miller, D.J. Lipman, Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs, Nucleic Acids Res. 25 (1997) 3389.
23. H. Nielsen, J. Engelbrecht, S. Brunak, G. Von Heijne, Identification of prokaryotic and eucaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites, Prot. Eng. 10 (1997) 1-6.
24. T. Hirokawa, S. Boon-Chieng, S. Mitaku, SOSUI: classification and secondary structure prediction system for membrane proteins, Bioinformatics 14 (1998) 378-379.
25. J.D. Thompson, D.G. Higgins, T.J. Gibson, CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice, Nucleic Acids Res. 22 (1994) 4673-4680.
26. N. Galtier, M. Gouy, C. Galtier, Seaview and phylo-win: two graphic tools for sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny, CABIOS 12 (1993) 543-548.
27. N.J. Proudfoot, G.G. Brownbee, 3′ non-coding region sequences in eukaryotic messenger RNA, Nature 263 (1976) 211-214.
28. B. Bjellquist, G.J. Hughes, C. Pasquali, N. Paquet, F. Ravier, J.C. Sanchez, S. Frutiger, D.F. Hochstrasser, The focusing positions of polypeptides in immobilized pH gradients can be predicted from their amino acid sequences, Electrophoresis 14 (1993) 1023-1031.
29. P. Grondin, C. Vergnolle, L. Chavant, J.C. Kader, Purification and characterization of a novel phospholipid protein from filamentous fungi, Int. J. Biochem. 22 (1990) 93-98.