Monoclonal antibodies against the lac carrier protein from Escherichia coli. 2. Binding studies with membrane vesicles and proteoliposomes reconstituted with purified lac carrier protein
- 31 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 23 (16), 3688-3693
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00311a018
Abstract
Monoclonal antibodies 4b1 and 5F7 bind to distinct, nonoverlapping epitopes in the lac carrier protein. By use of immunofluorescence microscopy and radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies and Fab fragments, it is shown that both 4B1 and 5F7 bind to spheroplasts and to right-side-out vesicles, but only to a small extent to inside-out vesicles. Therefore, the lac carrier protein has an asymmetric orientation within the cytoplasmic membrane of E. coli, and both epitopes are located on the periplasmic surface. In right-side-out vesicles, radiolabeled 4B1 binds with a stiochiometry of 1 mol of antibody /2 mol of lac carrier protein, while radiolabeled 4B1 Fab fragments bind 1:1. Importantly, the intact antibody and its Fab fragments bind to proteoliposomes reconstituted with purified lac carrier protein with a stoichiometry very similar to that observed in right-side-out membrane vesicles. Thus, the orientation of the lac carrier protein in the reconstituted system is probably similar to that in the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane, at least with respect to 4B1 epitope.Keywords
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