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Intracellular Refolding Assay
Published on: January 24, 2012
Lamina-associated polypeptide 2alpha forms complexes with heat shock proteins Hsp70 and Hsc70 in vivo
Luc Snyers1, Christian Schöfer
1Center for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Schwarzspanierstrasse 17, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
Lamina-associated polypeptide 2alpha (LAP2alpha), one of the alternatively spliced isoforms of the LAP2 gene, is a nucleoplasmic protein which forms oligomers and presumably associates to chromosomes via the LEM- and LEM-like regions. To characterize components of the LAP2alpha-containing complexes, we have expressed the alpha-specific C-terminal domain of LAP2alpha in HeLa cells and, after immunopurification, found that the heat shock proteins Hsp70 and Hsc70 reproducibly co-purified with this domain. Association between endogenous LAP2alpha and Hsp70 in non-transfected cells was confirmed by co-immunoprecipitation. The association was not mediated by the retinoblastoma protein.
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