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University Of Illinois at Chicago

Dept. Of Biochemistry and

Molecular Genetics

 

900 S. Ashland (M/C 669)
Chicago, IL 60607
tel: 312-996-7670
fax: 312-413-0353

 

Dr. Jack Kaplan, Benjamin Goldberg Professor and Head
kaplanj@uic.edu

Structure-function studies, mechanism, biosynthesis, assembly and cellular trafficking of P-type ATPases or Ion pumps. Mechanism and Regulation of Copper transport systems in Human Cells.

The active transport of ions across cell membranes is performed by P-type ATPases. These are integral membrane proteins which use the energy of hydrolysis of ATP to pump ions across biological membranes. The mechanism by which these proteins couple ATP hydrolysis to ion transport is one of the central interests of the laboratory. These proteins form phosphorylated intermediates with ATP and transport Na+, K+, H+, Ca2+, Cu2+, Cd2+ etc. across animal, bacterial, and plant cell membranes.

 
Jack H. Kaplan, Ph.D., F.R.S.

PhD in Biophysics from the University of London, in 1973
Max Planck Society Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute
for Biophysics Frankfurt, Germany, 1973-75

Using baculovirus-infected insect cells to express mutant Na pump molecules we are now studying protein conformational changes using site directed fluorescence and how the sub-units assemble in the ER and are trafficked via the Golgi to the plasma membrane using cell fractionation, immunological and metabolic labelling techniques. We are also interested in studying how Cu ions enter cells and we are carrying out the molecular analysis and characterization of hCTR1 a protein which mediates the entry of Cu ions into human cells. In this program we are employing the baculovirus-infected insect cell lines to generate recombinant transporter protein for structure-function and regulation studies.

During the last twenty years, we have been responsible for the introduction and development of caged compounds for biophysical and physiological studies. These are novel photolabile compounds which on u-v illumination release the caged substrate (ATP, ADP, Pi, Ca2+, Mg2+, etc.) in the msec-microsec time range and thus synchronously and rapidly initiate biological processes. We plan to continue to develop this strategy to provide novel photorelease techniques for cellular and molecular studies.

C. Selected Relevant Publications

Ellis-Davies, G.C.R. and Kaplan, J.H. (1988) A new class of photolabile chelators for the rapid release of divalent cations: the synthesis of caged Ca and caged Mg. J. Organic. Chem.,153:1966-1969.

Ellis-Davies, G.C.R. and Kaplan, J.H. (1990) Binding of Na+ ions to the Na+,K+-ATPase increases the reactivity of an essential residue in the ATP binding domain. J. Biol. Chem., 265:20570-20576.

Argüello J. and Kaplan, J.H. (1991) Evidence for essential carboxyls in the cation binding domain of the Na,K-ATPase. J. Biol. Chem., 266:14627-14635.

McCray, J.A., Ellis-Davies, G.C.R., Fidler-Lin, N. and Kaplan, J.H. (1992) Rate of release of Ca2+ following laser photolysis of the DM-nitrophen-Ca2+ complex, Biochemistry, 31:8856-8861.

Lutsenko, S., and Kaplan, J.H. (1992) Evidence of a role for the Na,K-ATPase ?-subunit in active cation transport. Ann. NY Acad. Sci., 671:147-155.

Ellis-Davies, G.C.R. and Kaplan, J.H. (1993) Modification of lysine-501 in the Na,K-ATPase reveals coupling between cation occupancy and changes in the ATP binding domain. J. Biol. Chem.,268:11622-11627.

Lutsenko, S. and Kaplan, J.H. (1993) An essential role of the extra-cellular domain of the Na,K-ATPase ?-subunit in ion-occlusion. Biochemistry, 32:6737-6743.

Argüello, J. and Kaplan, J.H. (1994) Glu779, an intramembrane carboxyl is essential for monovalent cation binding by the Na,K-ATPase. J. Biol. Chem., 269:6892-6899.

Petrukhin, K., Lutsenko, S., Chernov, I., Ross, B.M., Kaplan, J.H. and Gilliam, T.C. Characterization of the Wilson disease gene encoding a P-type copper transporting ATPase: genomic organization, alternative splicing, and structure/function predictions. Human Molecular Genetics, 3:1647-1656, 1994

Ellis-Davies, G.C.R. and Kaplan, J.H. (1994) Nitrophenyl-EGTA, a photolabile chelator that selectively binds Ca2+ with high affinity and releases it rapidly on photolysis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 91:187-191.

Lutsenko, S. and Kaplan, J.H. (1994) Molecular events in close proximity to the membrane upon ligand-binding by Na,K-ATPase. J. Biol. Chem., 269:4555-4564.

Shin, J.M., Kajimura, M., Argüello, J.A., Kaplan, J.H. and Sachs, G. (1994) Biochemical Identification of transmembrane segments of the Ca2+-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. J. Biol. Chem., 269:22533-37.

Valdivia, H.H., Kaplan, J.H., Ellis-Davies, G.C.R. and Lederer, W.J. (1995) Rapid adaptation of cardiac ryanodine receptors: Modulation by Mg2+ and phosphorylation. Science, 267: 1997-2000.

Lutsenko, S., Anderko, R. and Kaplan, J.H. (1995) Membrane disposition of the M5-M6 hairpin of Na,K-ATPase a-subunit is ligand dependent. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 92: 7936-7940.

Ellis-Davies, G.C.R., Kaplan, J.H. and Barsotti, R.J. (1996) Laser photolysis of caged calcium: Rates of calcium release by nitrophenyl-EGTA and DM-nitrophen. Biophys. J., 70: 1006-1016.

Lutsenko, S., Daoud, S. and Kaplan, J.H. (1997) Identification of two conformationally-sensitive cys residues at the extracellular surface of the Na,K-ATPase a-subunit. J. Biol. Chem., 272: 5249-5255.

Lutsenko, S., Petrukhin, K., Cooper, M.J., Gilliam, C.T. and Kaplan, J.H. (1997) N-terminal domains of human copper-transporting adenosine triphosphatases (the Wilson’s and Menkes disease proteins) bind copper selectivity in vivo and in vitro with stoichiometry of one copper per metal-binding repeat. J. Biol. Chem., 272:18939-18944.

Lutsenko, S., Petrukhin, K., Gillian, T.C. and Kaplan, J.H. (1997) Heterologous expression of the metal-binding domain of human copper-transporting ATPases (P1 ATPases). Ann. NY Acad. Sci., 834: 155-157.

Gatto, C., Wang, A.X. and Kaplan, J.H. (1998) The M4M5 cytoplasmic loop of the Na,K-ATPase, overexpressed in E. coli, binds nucleoside triphosphates with the same selectivity as the intact native protein. J. Biol. Chem., 10578-10585.

Gatto, C. Thornewell, S.J., Holden, J.P. and Kaplan, J.H. (1999) Cys-577 is a conformationally mobile residue in the ATP-binding domain of the Na,K-ATPase a-subunit. J. Biol. Chem., 274: 24995-25003.

Gatto, C., Lutsenko, S., Shin, J., Saks, G. and Kaplan, J.H. (1999) Stabilization of the H,K-ATPase M5M6 membrane hairpin by K+ ions: Mechanistic significance for P2-type ATPases. J. Biol. Chem., Communication, 274: 13737-13740.

Hu, Y-K. and Kaplan, J.H. (2000) Site-directed labelling of extracellular loops in a membrane protein: The toplogy of the Na,K-ATPase a-subunit. J. Biol. Chem., 275:19185-19191.

Eisses, J.F., Stasser, J.P., Ralle, M., Kaplan, J.H. and Blackburn, N.J. (2000) Domain I and III of LCCS interest via a cysteine-bridged dicopper (I) cluster. Biochemistry, 39: 7337-7342.

Hu, Y-K., Gatto, C., Eisses, J.D. and Kaplan, J.H. (2000) Expression of active cysteine-less forms of the Na,K-ATPase a-subunit in baculovirus-infected insect cells. J. Biol. Chem., 275: 30734-30739.

Gatto, C., McCloud, S. and Kaplan, J.H. (2001) Heterologous expression of Na,K-ATPase in insect cells:Intracellulardistribution of pump subunits. Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol. 281:C982-C992.

Tsivkoskii, R., Eisses, J.F., Kaplan, J.H. and Lutsenko, S. (2002) Functional properties of the copper-transporting ATPase ATP7 (The Wilson's Disease Protein) expressed in insect cells. J. Biol. Chem., 277:976-983.

Eisses, J.D. and Kaplan, J.H. (2002) Molecular characterization of hCTR1, the human copper uptake protein. J. Biol. Chem., 277:29162-29171.

Geibel, S., Kaplan, J.H., Bamberg, E. and Friedrich, T. (2003) Conformational dynamics of the Na,K-ATPase probed by voltage clamp fluorometry. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 100:964-969.

Costa, C.J., Gatto, C. and Kaplan, J.H. (2003) Interactions between Na,K-ATPase a-subunit ATP-binding domains. J. Biol. Chem., 278:9176-9184.

Laughery , MD, McLoud S, and Kaplan JH. (2003) Mutational analysis of the interactions of the alpha and beta subunits of the Na,K-ATPase. Ann N Y Acad Sci., 986:273-4

Laughery, MD, Todd, and Kaplan JH (2003) Mutational analysis of alpha -beta subunit interactions in the delivery of Na,K-ATPase heterodimers to the plasma membrane. J Biol Chem. 278, 34794-34803.

 

 

 

 

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