Increased copper metallothionein in menkes cultured skin fibroblasts

ABSTRACT Summary: Menkes fibroblasts contain a significantly greater amount of cysteine-rich 10,000 dalton copper-binding protein(s) (metallothionein) than normal cells. Mutant fibroblasts

incorporated 30 to 40% more tritiated amino acids into 10,000 dalton protein(s) than normal cells. The protein(s) was deficient in aromatic amino acids. The amount of 35-cysteine

incorporated by the same protein(s) in Menkes fibroblasts was twice that of normal fibroblasts. Comparison of the 35S:3H isotopic ratios of chromatographic fractions of both normal and

Menkes cell lysates showed that only the proteins eluted in the 10,000 dalton peak were enriched in 35S-cysteine, and this ratio was always greater in Menkes than in normal cells. The 10,000

molecular weight 35S-cysteine- and 3H-amino acid-labeled peaks coincided with the 84Cu peak in both cell strains. The copper-labeled peak was always greater in Menkes than in normal cells.

No difference in the 84Cu:35S isotopic ratio in the 10,000 dalton peak was observed between normal and Menkes fibroblast strains. This finding shows the direct relationship between the

amount of cysteine-rich 10,000 dalton protein(s) and the amount of 84Cu bound by this protein(s) in both Menkes and normal fibroblasts. DEAE-cellulose ion-exchange chromatography resulted in

a further two-fold enrichment of the 10,000 dalton, sulfur-rich proteins that were eluted from the Sephadex G-75 column. Most of the labeled proteins from both normal and Menkes fibroblasts

were eluted from the ion-exchange column in a single peak at a chloride concentration of approximately 30 mM. Poly-acrylamide disc gel electrophoresis of pooled fractions of the 10,000

dalton proteins eluted from the G-75 column and the DEAE-cellulose ion-exchange column showed no consistent differences in the staining pattern between normal and mutant fibroblast strains.

When the acrylamide gels were sliced and subsequently counted for radioactive content, no band showed a further increase in the 35S:3H isotopic ratio when compared to the electrophoresed

samples that were eluted from the Sephadex G-75 or the ion-exchange columns. Also, no significant increase in the amount of radioactivity associated with a specific protein band could be

demonstrated between the Menkes and the normal fibroblast strains. Speculation: The increased accumulation and the reduced efflux of coppe observed in cultured Menkes fibroblasts is

associated with a greater amount of copper metallothionein(s) present in the mutant than inth e normcellas. lT he abnormally high copper concentrations observed in several extra-hepatic

tissues of patients with Menkes disease may also relate to the presence in these tissues of increased levels of copper metallothionein(s). SIMILAR CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS MFSD12

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ARTICLE Labadie, G., Hirschhorn, K., Katz, S. _et al._ Increased Copper Metallothionein in Menkes Cultured Skin Fibroblasts. _Pediatr Res_ 15, 257–261 (1981).

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