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. 1998 Jan;10(1):119–130. doi: 10.1105/tpc.10.1.119

The molecular chaperone calnexin associates with the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase from oat seedlings.

X Li 1, R T Su 1, H T Hsu 1, H Sze 1
PMCID: PMC143936  PMID: 9477575

Abstract

Acidification of endomembrane compartments by the vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase (V-ATPase) is central to many cellular processes in eukaryotes, including osmoregulation and protein sorting. The V-ATPase complex consists of a peripheral sector (V1) and a membrane integral sector (V0); however, it is unclear how the multimeric enzyme is assembled. A 64-kD polypeptide that had copurified with oat V-ATPase subunits has been identified as calnexin, an integral protein on the endoplasmic reticulum. To determine whether calnexin interacted physically with the V-ATPase, microsomal membranes were Triton X-100 solubilized, and the protein-protein interaction was analyzed by coimmunoprecipitation. Monoclonal antibodies against calnexin precipitated both calnexin and V-ATPase subunits, including A and B and those of 44, 42, 36, 16, and 13 kD. A monoclonal antibody against subunit A precipitated the entire V-ATPase complex as well as calnexin and BiP, an endoplasmic reticulum lumen chaperone. The results support our hypothesis that both calnexin and BiP act as molecular chaperones in the folding and assembly of newly synthesized V1V0-ATPases at the endoplasmic reticulum.

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