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Mouse activating Nkrp1 proteins are commonly described as type II transmembrane receptors with disulfide-linked homodimeric structure. Their function and the manner in which Nkrp1 proteins of mouse strain (C57BL/6) oligomerize are still poorly understood. To assess the oligomerization state of Nkrp1 proteins, mouse activating EGFP-Nkrp1s were expressed in mammalian lymphoid cells and their oligomerization evaluated by Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). Alternatively, Nkrp1s oligomers were detected by Western blotting to specify the ratio between monomeric and dimeric forms. We also performed structural characterization of recombinant ectodomains of activating Nkrp1 receptors. Nkrp1 isoforms c1, c2 and f were expressed prevalently as homodimers, whereas the Nkrp1a displays larger proportion of monomers on the cell surface. Cysteine-to-serine mutants revealed the importance of all stalk cysteines for protein dimerization in living cells with a major influence of cysteine at position 74 in two Nkrp1 protein isoforms. Our results represent a new insight into the oligomerization of Nkrp1 receptors on lymphoid cells, which will help to determine their function.

Original publication

DOI

10.3390/ijms20081884

Type

Journal article

Journal

International journal of molecular sciences

Publication Date

16/04/2019

Volume

20

Addresses

Laboratory of Structural Biology and Cell Signaling, Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220 Prague 4, Czech Republic. ljubina.adamkova@biomed.cas.cz.

Keywords

COS Cells, Jurkat Cells, Animals, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Cercopithecus aethiops, Humans, Mice, Receptors, Immunologic, Antigens, Ly, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer, Protein Multimerization, NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily B, Protein Refolding