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- * Lysosome-associated membrane glycoproteins signatures *
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- Lysosome-associated membrane glycoproteins (lamp) [1] are integral membrane
- proteins, specific to lysosomes, and whose exact biological function is not
- yet clear. Structurally, the lamp proteins consist of two internally
- homologous lysosome-luminal domains separated by a proline-rich hinge region;
- at the C-terminal extremity there is a transmembrane region followed by a very
- short cytoplasmic tail. In each of the duplicated domains, there are two
- conserved disulfide bonds. This structure is schematically represented in the
- figure below.
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- +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
- | | | | | | | |
- xCxxxxxCxxxxxxxxxxxxCxxxxxCxxxxxxxxxCxxxxxCxxxxxxxxxxxxCxxxxxCxxxxxxxx
- <--------------------------><Hinge><--------------------------><TM><C>
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- In mammals, there are two closely related types of lamp: lamp-1 and lamp-2. In
- chicken lamp-1 is known as LEP100.
-
- The macrophage protein CD68 (or macrosialin) [2] is a heavily glycosylated
- integral membrane protein whose structure consists of a mucin-like domain
- followed by a proline-rich hinge; a single lamp-like domain; a transmembrane
- region and a short cytoplasmic tail.
-
- We developed two signature patterns for this family of proteins. The first one
- is centered on the first conserved cysteine of the duplicated domains. The
- second corresponds to a region that includes the extremity of the second
- domain, the totality of the transmembrane region and the cytoplasmic tail.
-
- -Consensus pattern: [STA]-C-[LIVM]-[LIVMFYW]-A-x-[LIVMFYW]-x(3)-[LIVMFYW]-
- x(3)-Y
- [C is involved in a disulfide bond]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL, except
- for CD68s.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
-
- -Note: the pattern will fail to detect the second copy of the domain in lamp-2
- and the first copy of chicken LEP100.
-
- -Consensus pattern: C-x(2)-D-x(3,4)-[LIVM](2)-P-[LIVM]-x-[LIVM]-G-x(2)-[LIVM]-
- x-G-[LIVM](2)-x-[LIVM](4)-A-[FY]-x-[LIVM]-x(2)-[KR]-[RH]-
- x(1,2)-[STAG](2)-Y-[EQ]
- [C is involved in a disulfide bond]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
-
- -Last update: June 1994 / Patterns and text revised.
-
- [ 1] Fukuda M.
- J. Biol. Chem. 266:21327-21330(1991).
- [ 2] Holness C.L., da Silva R.P., Fawcett J., Gordon S., Simmons D.L.
- J. Biol. Chem. 268:9661-9666(1993).
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