Screening
of Proteins Interacting with tTG in HeLa Cells
LI Ping,
ZHANG Yu-Qing, WANG Xia, TAN Li, ZHU Yun-Song*
( Department of Molecular Genetics, Key Laboratory of
Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Medical Center of Fudan University,
Shanghai 200032, China )
Abstract Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) belongs to
a class of transglutaminase family which is up-regulated in almost all cells
apoptosis and is thought to be closely related to cell apoptosis. To
investigate the mechanism of tTG in cell apoptosis, yeast two hybrid system was
used to screen HeLa cDNA library. One of the 17 positive clones we have
obtained encoded the glutamine-rich carboxyl terminus of TIAR, and this
interaction between tTG and TIAR, which was finely regulated by Ca2+,
was proved in vitro by GST pull-down. These findings suggest that tTG might
affect the function of TIAR by a calcium-dependent posttranslational
modification and the interaction might possibly be involved in the regulation
of cell apoptosis.
Key words tissue transglutaminase;
TIA-1-related protein; yeast two hybrid
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