Topography of connexin32 in rat liver gap junctions. evidence for an intramolecular disulphide linkage connecting the two extracellular peptide loops

Rahman, Salman and Evans, William Howard 1991. Topography of connexin32 in rat liver gap junctions. evidence for an intramolecular disulphide linkage connecting the two extracellular peptide loops. Journal of Cell Science 100 (Pt 3) , pp. 567-578.

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Abstract

A range of anti-peptide antibodies directed towards selected amino acid sequences of connexin32 was prepared and characterised. The site-directed antibodies that identified connexin32 were used to study by immunolocalization and by proteolytic treatment of intact and split gap junctions the arrangement of the protein in the membrane. These studies reinforce models of connexin topography in which the polypeptide traverses the junctional membrane four times, with the amino and carboxyl termini cytoplasmically located. The four transmembrane domains were shown to be linked by two extracellular loops with a single intracellular loop connecting the second and third transmembrane domains. Evidence is presented to show that the two extracellular domains of connexin32, which are important for intercellular adhesion and the insulated bridging of the extracellular space by channels allowing cell-cell communication across the gap junction, are connected by disulphide bond(s). The studies lead to a more detailed two-dimensional model of connexin32 in the membrane, incorporating the favoured theoretical arrangement of disulphide bonds at the extracellular domain of connexin32.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	The Company of Biologists Ltd
ISSN:	0021-9533
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2021 02:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/66898

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