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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 2, 882-888, 01, 1990

Vitellogenesis in Xenopus laevis and chicken: cognate ligands and oocyte receptors. The binding site for vitellogenin is located on lipovitellin I

S Stifani, J Nimpf and WJ Schneider
Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Vitellogenesis is the process of yolk formation in rapidly growing oocytes of oviparous species. The transport of yolk precursor proteins from the blood plasma into the oocyte is achieved by receptor-mediated endocytosis. Although the Xenopus oocyte is one of the prime experimental systems for expression of foreign genes and their products, the receptor for the main vitellogenic protein, vitellogenin, from this extensively utilized cell has not been identified. Here we have applied ligand and immunoblotting to visualize the Xenopus laevis oocyte receptor for vitellogenin as a protein with an apparent Mr of 115,000 in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels under nonreducing conditions. The receptor from the amphibian oocyte also recognizes chicken vitellogenin, and vice versa; furthermore, the two receptor proteins are immunologically related as revealed by Western blotting with anti-chicken vitellogenin receptor antibodies. The receptors from both species bind the lipovitellin moiety of vitellogenin, as revealed by ligand blotting with radiolabeled lipovitellin polypeptides as well as by a novel reverse ligand blotting procedure utilizing nitrocellulose-immobilized ligand. Since vitellogenins of chicken and Xenopus have been shown to be structurally similar and evolutionarily related (Nardelli, D., van het Schip, F. D., Gerber-Huber, S., Haefliger, J.-A., Gruber, M., AB, G., and Wahli, W. (1987) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 15377-15383), it appears that conservation of key structural elements required for efficient vitellogenesis extends from the ligands to their receptors on the oocyte plasma membrane.
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