The enzyme catalyses the posttranslational protein palmitoylation that plays a role in protein-membrane interactions, protein trafficking, and enzyme activity. Palmitoylation increases the hydrophobicity of proteins or protein domains and contributes to their membrane association.
The enzyme catalyses the posttranslational protein palmitoylation that plays a role in protein-membrane interactions, protein trafficking, and enzyme activity. Palmitoylation increases the hydrophobicity of proteins or protein domains and contributes to their membrane association.
minimum requirements for substrate recognition are a free cysteine thiol adjacent to a hydrophobic lipid anchor, either myristate or farnesyl isoprenoid, overview
recombinant myristoylated G protein alpha subunit and bovine brain betagamma subunits. G-protein substrate specificity of PAT activity, overview. wild-type Gia1 and Gia1G203A mutant form heterotrimers with G protein betagammaC68S
PAT incorporates fatty acid into rhodopsin with higher efficiency, 10times higher initial rate, as compared to autoacylation, presence of deacylated, free cysteine residues in dark-adapted rhodopsin increases palmitoylation via PAT
PAT incorporates fatty acid into rhodopsin with higher efficiency, 10times higher initial rate, as compared to autoacylation, presence of deacylated, free cysteine residues in dark-adapted rhodopsin increases palmitoylation via PAT. Rhodopsin containing rod outer segment membranes prepared from fresh, dark-adapted bovine retinae
PAT activity displays specificity for the acyl donor, efficiently utilizing long-chain acyl-CoAs, but not free fatty acid or S-palmitoyl-N-acetylcysteamine. PAT also shows thiolase activity
PAT fatty acyl-CoA chain length specificity in vitro, overview. PAT shows G-protein substrate specificity of PAT activity, overview. Mutation of the prenylated cysteine residue to serine, C68S, in the gamma2 subunit yields a nonprenylated gamma that heterodimerizes with the beta1 subunit. The mutant betagammaC68S binds to myristoylated rGialpha1, forming a heterotrimer that is acylated in vitro with efficiency similar to that of the wild-type heterotrimer
PAT incorporates fatty acid into rhodopsin with higher efficiency, 10times higher initial rate, as compared to autoacylation, presence of deacylated, free cysteine residues in dark-adapted rhodopsin increases palmitoylation via PAT
i.e. ACBP strongly suppress non-enzymatic thioacylation of cysteinyl containing peptides by long-chain acyl-CoAs, usage of purified rat and recombinant bovine liver ACBP. ACBP only modestly inhibits enzymatic thioacylation of a myristoylated peptide or G-protein K-subunits under conditions where non-enzymatic thioacylation is reduced to background
depletion of cellular cholesterol with the drug methyl-beta-cyclodextrin results in inhibition of palmitoyltransferase activity and a redistribution of the remaining activity to membranes of higher density, the process is reversible by cholesterol addition
i.e. ACBP strongly suppress non-enzymatic thioacylation of cysteinyl containing peptides by long-chain acyl-CoAs, usage of purified rat and recombinant bovine liver ACBP. ACBP only modestly inhibits enzymatic thioacylation of a myristoylated peptide or G-protein K-subunits under conditions where non-enzymatic thioacylation is reduced to background
depletion of cellular cholesterol with the drug methyl-beta-cyclodextrin results in inhibition of palmitoyltransferase activity and a redistribution of the remaining activity to membranes of higher density, the process is reversible by cholesterol addition
palmitoyltransferase facilitates the enrichment of fatty acylated signaling molecules in plasma membrane subdomains. Fatty acylation, involving the enzyme, is one mechanism for targeting proteins to lipid rafts, low density, sphingomyelin- and cholesterol-enriched membranes. When reconstituted into cell membranes, the population of purified recombinant Gi that is palmitoylated is highly enriched in the low density membrane fractions, whereas the bulk unmodified Gi-protein is largely excluded, the effect requires palmitoyltransferase activity and is abolished if the palmitoylated cysteine was mutated.