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(Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2004;45:2705-2715.)
© 2004 by The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc.
DOI:  10.1167/iovs.04-0131
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Proteomic and Sequence Analysis of Chicken Lens Crystallins Reveals Alternate Splicing and Translational Forms of ßB2 and ßA2 Crystallins

Phillip A. Wilmarth,1 Jennifer R. Taube,2 Michael A. Riviere,1 Melinda K. Duncan,2 and Larry L. David1

1From the Department of Integrative Biosciences, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; and the 2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

PURPOSE. To characterize the adult chicken lens proteome using mass spectrometry and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE).

METHODS. Lens proteins from 10-week old chickens were separated by gel filtration and reversed-phase chromatography, and whole protein masses were measured with electrospray mass spectrometry. Water-soluble lens proteins were separated by 2-DE and identified by tandem mass spectrometry of in-gel digests.

RESULTS. Whole protein masses were consistent with all major chicken lens crystallin sequences, except for ßB2 and ßB3. Subsequent cDNA sequencing revealed errors in published sequences translating into 2- and 7-amino-acid differences, respectively, for ßB2 and ßB3, which were in better agreement with the measured masses. Previously uncharacterized forms of ßA2 and ßB2 were observed. The novel form of ßA2 had four fewer amino acids, was more abundant, and resulted from translation at a second start codon. The novel form of ßB2 contained 14 additional amino acids in the interdomain linker and resulted from alternate splicing within intron 4 of the transcript. All examined crystallins, except ßA3, for which data could not be obtained, were N-terminally acetylated, and all ß-crystallins lacked an initial methionine, except for the smaller ßA2 form. In-gel digests identified 29 proteins on the 2-DE map and indicated that truncation occurs within N-terminal extensions of ß-crystallins during lens maturation.

CONCLUSIONS. The complementary techniques 2-DE, mass spectrometry, and DNA sequencing were used to provide the most complete description of the adult chicken lens proteome to date and identified alternate forms of ßA2 and ßB2.




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