Journal of Molecular Biology
Volume 88, Issue 3, 25 September 1974, Pages 559-580
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Ribosomal-membrane interaction: In vitro binding of ribosomes to microsomal membranes

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Abstract

Rat liver rough microsomal membranes were stripped of bound ribosomes by treatment with puromycin and high concentrations of monovalent ions. Ribosomal subunits labeled in the RNA were detached from rough microsomes by the same procedure, recombined into monomers, and then incubated with stripped membranes in a medium of low ionic strength (25 mm-KCl, 50 mm-Tris-HCl, 5 mm-MgCl2). These ribosomes readily attached to the stripped membranes, as determined by isopycnic flotation of the reconstituted microsomes. The binding reaction was complete after incubation for five minutes at 37 °C, but also proceeded at 0 °C, at a lower rate. Scatchard plots showed a binding constant of ~8 × 107 m−1 and ~5 × 10−8 mol binding sites per gram of membrane protein. Native rough microsomes showed a much lower binding capacity at 0 °C than stripped rough microsomes, but showed considerable uptake of ribosomes at 37 °C. Smooth microsomes, treated for stripping and incubated at 0 °C, accepted less than half as many ribosomes as stripped rough microsomes. Erythrocyte ghosts were incapable of binding ribosomes. Microsomal binding sites were heat sensitive, were destroyed by a brief incubation with a mixture of trypsin and chymotrypsin in the cold, and were unaffected by incubation with phospholipase C.

Ribosome binding was decreased by increasing the concentration of monovalent ions and was strongly inhibited by 10−4 m-aurintricarboxylic acid. Experiments with purified ribosomal subunits revealed that at concentrations of monovalent ions close to physiological concentrations (100 to 150 mm-KCl), microsomal binding sites had a greater affinity for 60 S than for 40 S subunits.

Stripped rough microsomes were also capable of accepting polysomes obtained from rough microsomes by detergent treatment. Although this binding presumably involves the correct membrane binding sites, polypeptides discharged from re-bound polymers were not transferred to the vesicular cavities, as in native microsomes. The released polypeptides remained firmly associated with the outer microsomal face, as shown by their accessibility to proteases.

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    A preliminary report of part of this work was presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology in St. Louis, 1972 (Borgese et al., 1972). This work was supported in part by U.S. Public Health Service grant GM20277 and was initiated at the Rockefeller University, New York.

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