Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor. J. Mycol.)
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Analysis of Protein Domain for Interaction between α-COP and ε-COP in Aspergillus nidulans

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Korea

Correspondence to hmpark@cnu.ac.kr

Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) December 31, 2012, 40(4):224-228.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2012.40.4.224
(Received 5, November 2012., Revised 8, November 2012., Accepted 13, November 2012)
Published: December 31, 2012.
© The Korean Society of Mycology

ABSTRACT

In order to screen interactor(s) of the Aspergillus nidulans α-COP of COPI vesicle, we performed the yeast two hybrid screening by using the gene for A. nidulans α-COP as a bait and identified ε-COP of the COPI vesicle as an interacting protein. The A. nidualns gene for the ε-COP was designated aneA + (A. nidulans epsilone-COP), which encoded 296 amino acid residues with high level of identity with orthologs from other fungi. Domain analyses with yeast two-hybrid system suggested that the interaction between α-COP and ε-COP relied on the C-terminus of both proteins, and that the N-terminal WD domian of α-COP and the TPR region of ε– COP were not essential but required for the enhancement of the interaction. These results indicate that the interaction mode between α-COP and ε-COP of COPI vesicle is evolutionarily well conserved in eukaryotes.

Keywords

Aspergillus nidulans, α-COP, ε-COP, Yeast two-hybrid assay

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