Collection of soluble variants of membrane proteins for transcriptomics and proteomics

The existence of a soluble splice variant for a gene encoding a transmembrane protein suggests that this gene plays a role in intercellular signalling, particularly in immunological processes. Also, the absence of a splice variant of a reported soluble variant suggests exclusive control of the solub...

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Published in:In silico biology 2005, Vol.5 (3), p.295-311
Main Authors: Möller, Steffen, Mix, Eilhard, Blüggel, Martin, Serrano-Fernández, Pablo, Koczan, Dirk, Kotsikoris, Vasilis, Kunz, Manfred, Watson, Michael, Pahnke, Jens, Illges, Harald, Kreutzer, Michael, Mikkat, Stefan, Thiesen, Hans-Jürgen, Glocker, Michael O, Zettl, Uwe K, Ibrahim, Saleh M
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Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Humans
Membrane Proteins - chemistry
Membrane Proteins - genetics
Programming Languages
Proteomics
RNA, Messenger - genetics
Solubility
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Summary:The existence of a soluble splice variant for a gene encoding a transmembrane protein suggests that this gene plays a role in intercellular signalling, particularly in immunological processes. Also, the absence of a splice variant of a reported soluble variant suggests exclusive control of the solubilisation by proteolytic cleavage. Soluble splice variants of membrane proteins may also be interesting targets for crystallisation as their structure may be expected to preserve, at least partially, their function as integral membrane proteins, whose structures are most difficult to determine. This paper presents a dataset derived from the literature in an attempt to collect all reported soluble variants of membrane proteins, be they splice variants or shedded. A list of soluble variants is derived in silico from Ensembl. These are checked on their presence in multiple organisms and their number of membranespanning regions is inspected. The findings then are confirmed by a comparison with identified proteins of a recent global proteomics study of human blood plasma. Finally, a tool to determine novel soluble variants by proteomics is provided.
ISSN:1386-6338
1434-3207