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Nitrogen Cavitation and Differential Centrifugation Allows for Monitoring the Distribution of Peripheral Membrane Proteins in Cultured Cells
Published on: August 18, 2017
Detergent-free caveolae proteome suggests an interaction with ER and mitochondria
Kerrie-Ann McMahon1, Meifang Zhu, Sung Won Kwon
1Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 74390-9039, USA. kerrie-ann.mcmahon@utsouthwestern.edu
Abstract:
Recent proteomic studies of detergent resistant membrane fractions have begun to characterize the protein composition of caveolae and lipid rafts. The methods used in most of these studies, however, are not able to distinguish between plasma membrane and internal membrane lipid domains. Here we used a non-detergent method for obtaining fractions enriched in caveolae derived from the plasma membrane of multiple cell types. Unexpectedly, the proteins in the caveolae proteome suggest these lipid domains may interact with elements of ER and mitochondria. A comparison of the partial proteome we obtained with other published reports identifies 26 proteins that are candidate marker proteins for identifying caveolae in multiple cell types.
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