Transmembrane topography and evolutionary conservation of synaptophysin
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Transmembrane topography and evolutionary conservation of synaptophysin
Abstract
Synaptophysin is the major integral membrane protein of small synaptic vesicles. Its primary structure deduced from rat and human complementary DNA sequences predicts that synaptophysin contains four transmembrane regions and a carboxyl-terminal domain having a novel repetitive structure. To elucidate the transmembrane organization of this protein in the synaptic vesicle, five antipeptide antibodies were raised. The site-specific antibodies were used to map the cognate sequences to the cytoplasmic or intravesicular side of the synaptic vesicle membrane by determining the susceptibility of the epitopes to proteolysis. The results confirm a topographic model for synaptophysin in which the protein spans the vesicle membrane four times, with both the amino and carboxyl terminus being cytoplasmic. In addition, the evolutionary conservation of the synaptophysin domains was addressed as a function of their membrane localization. To this end the primary structure of bovine synaptophysin was determined. Sequence comparisons between bovine, rat, and human synaptophysin revealed that only the intravesicular loops showed a significant number of amino acid substitutions (22%), while the transmembrane regions and cytoplasmic sequences were highly conserved (3% substitutions). These results depict synaptophysin as a protein with multiple membrane spanning regions whose functional site is likely to reside in highly conserved intramembranous and cytoplasmic sequences.
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