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. 1979 Nov 1;183(2):417–427. doi: 10.1042/bj1830417

The anion-transport protein of the human erythrocyte membrane. Studies on fragments produced by pepsin digestion.

M J Tanner, D G Williams, D Kyle
PMCID: PMC1161573  PMID: 393252

Abstract

We have studied the fragmentation by pepsin in 1 M-acetic acid of the erythrocyte anion-transport protein in erythrocyte membranes. The location of the fragments obtained was determined by radioiodinating the protein with the use of lactoperoxidase, and identifying the labelled peptides obtained in peptide "maps" of thermolysin digests of the fragments. Three of the fragments were found to be related overlapping products, and shared a common C-terminus. The major site of pepsin cleavage leading to the C-termini of these fragments was shown to be close to the major site of extracellular cleavage of the protein by proteinases active at a neutral pH. Another two fragments were isolated and shown to be derived from the C-terminal portion of the protein. No well-defined large radioactive fragments of the protein were solubilized from the membrane by pepsin in 1 M-acetic acid, the bulk of the radioactivity attributable to the anion transport protein being recovered in very small fragments that could not be resolved by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. Our results suggest that the polypeptide chain of the anion-transport protein emerges at the extracellular face of the membrane 8000-13000 daltons on the N-terminal side of the major site of extracellular cleavage of the protein by proteinases that are active at a neutral pH.

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