Papers by Alessandro Bertoli
The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Oct 1, 2004
Doppel is the first identified homologue of the prion protein (PrPc) implicated in prion disease.... more Doppel is the first identified homologue of the prion protein (PrPc) implicated in prion disease. Doppel is considered an N-truncated form of PrPc, and shares with PrPc several structural and biochemical features. When over expressed in the brain of some PrP knockout animals, it provokes cerebellar ataxia. As this phenotype is rescued by reintroducing the PrP gene, it has been suggested that Doppel and PrPc have antagonistic functions and may compete for a common ligand. However, a direct interaction between the two proteins has recently been observed. To investigate whether the neuronal environment is suitable for such possibility, human Doppel and PrPc were expressed separately, or together, in neuroblastoma cells, and then studied by biochemical and immunomicroscopic tools, as well as in intact cells expressing fluorescent fusion constructs. The results demonstrate that Doppel and PrPc co-patch extensively at the plasma membrane, and get internalized together after ganglioside cross-linking by cholera toxin or addition of an antibody against only one of the proteins. These processes no longer occur if the integrity of rafts is disrupted. We also show that, whereas each protein expressed alone occupies Triton X-100-insoluble membrane microdomains, co-transfected Doppel and PrPc redistribute together into a less ordered lipidic environment. All these features are consistent with interactions occurring between Doppel and PrPc in our neuronal cell model.
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Biochemical Society Transactions, Oct 1, 2000
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Nov 1, 2021
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Journal of Neurochemistry, Dec 23, 2003
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Jun 29, 2021
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Chemical Senses, Jun 16, 2011
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Journal of Proteome Research, Nov 18, 2011
Approximately 25% of eukaryotic proteins possessing homology to at least two transmembrane domain... more Approximately 25% of eukaryotic proteins possessing homology to at least two transmembrane domains are predicted to be embedded in biological membranes. Nevertheless, this group of proteins is not usually well represented in proteome-wide experiments due to their refractory nature. Here we present a quantitative mass spectrometry-based comparison of membrane protein expression in cerebellar granule neurons grown in primary culture that were isolated from wild-type mice and mice lacking the cellular prion protein. This protein is a cell-surface glycoprotein that is mainly expressed in the central nervous system and is involved in several neurodegenerative disorders, though its physiological role is unclear. We used a low specificity enzyme α-chymotrypsin to digest membrane proteins preparations that had been separated by SDS-PAGE. The resulting peptides were labeled with tandem mass tags and analyzed by MS. The differentially expressed proteins identified using this approach were further analyzed by multiple reaction monitoring to confirm the expression level changes.
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European Biophysics Journal, Dec 1, 1994
We studied the activation properties of members of the Shaker-related subfamily of voltage-gated ... more We studied the activation properties of members of the Shaker-related subfamily of voltage-gated K+ channels cloned from rat brain and expressed in Xenopus oocytes. We find that Kv1.1, Kv1.4, Kv1.5, and Kv1.6 have similar activation and deactivation kinetics. The k+ currents produced by step depolarisations increase with a sigmoidal time course that can be described by a delay and by the derivative of the current at the inflection point. The delay tends to zero and the logarithmic derivative seems to approach a finite value at large positive voltages, but these asymptotic values are not yet reached at +80 mV. Deactivation of the currents upon stepping to negative membrane potentials below -60 mV is fairly well described by a single exponential. The decrease of the deactivation time constant at increasingly negative voltages tends to become less steep, indicating that this parameter also has a finite limiting value, which is not yet reached, however, at -160 mV. The various clones studied have very similar voltage dependencies of activation with half-activation voltages ranging between -50 and -11 mV and maximum steepness yielding and e-fold change for voltage increments between 3.8 and 7.0 mV. The shallower activation curve of Kv1.4 is likely to be due to coupling with the fast inactivation process present in this clone.
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