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This result demonstrates that APT-1 is able to participate in the acylation cycle of H-RasG12V, which is consistent with already published data [50].
Interestingly, we demonstrated that APT-1 is not expressed in CHO-K1 cells and that APT-1 overexpression did not significantly increase the deacylation rate of monoacylated or wild-type GAP-43 but did enhance the deacylation rate of H-RasG12V protein.
In a clear contrast, we observed that in cells expressing APT-2, the half-time of N13GAP-43(C3S) deacylation was reduced to 3 min (Fig. 5B), demonstrating that APT-2 catalyze in vivo deacylation of N13GAP-43(C3S).
Thus, results demonstrated that APT-1 is not expressed in CHO-K1 cells.
Particularly, it was demonstrated an APT-1-mediated S-palmitoylation of H- and N-Ras [45].
Additionally, it was also demonstrated that APT-2 overexpression affected the steady-state subcellular localization of acylated H-Ras.
Thus, the results demonstrate that APT-2 is the protein thioesterase involved in the acylation/deacylation cycle operating in GAP-43 subcellular distribution.
We demonstrated that APT-2 can deacylate two unrelated proteins like H-Ras, which is modified at its C-terminus by both acylation and prenylation and GAP-43, which is acylated on N-terminal cysteines 3 and 4.
