I. Leier et al., IDENTIFICATION OF THE BIOSYNTHETIC LEUKOTRIENE C-4 EXPORT PUMP IN MURINE MASTOCYTOMA-CELLS AS A HOMOLOG OF THE MULTIDRUG-RESISTANCE PROTEIN, European journal of biochemistry, 242(2), 1996, pp. 201-205
A membrane glycoprotein of 190 kDa has been identified previously by p
hotoaffinity labeling as a candidate for the ATP-dependent export pump
for leukotriene C-4 in mastocytoma cells [Leier, I., Jedlitschky, G.,
Buchholz, U. & Keppler, D. (1994) Eur. J. Biochem. 220, 599-606]. The
present study indicates that this protein represents the murine homol
og of the human multidrug resistance protein (MRP). In immunoblot anal
yses several polyclonal anti-MRP antibodies and one monoclonal antibod
y recognized the protein of 190-kDa in plasma membranes of mastocytoma
cells. Immunoprecipitation after photoaffinity labeling with [H-3]leu
kotriene C-4 precipitated the labeled 190-kDa glycoprotein. Deglycosyl
ation by glycopeptide N-glycosidase F of mastocytoma membrane proteins
was performed in comparison with membranes from MRP-overexpressing ce
lls and resulted in a reduction of the molecular mass of 190 kDa by ab
out 20 kDa in all membrane preparations. The expression of the murine
mrp gene in the mastocytoma cells was analyzed by amplification and se
quencing of two mrp cDNA fragments in the first nucleotide binding dom
ain (182 bp) and in a domain proximal to the 3'-end (291 bp). The dedu
ced amino acid sequences of these fragments were identical with murine
Mrp and 86.7% and 89.7% identical with the corresponding sequences of
human MRP. These results indicate that the ATP-dependent release of l
eukotriene C-4 by murine mastocytoma cells is mediated by murine Mrp.