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Morris RL, Hoffman MP, Obar RA, McCafferty SS, Gibbons IR, Leone AD, Cool J, Allgood EL, Musante AM, Judkins KM, Rossetti BJ, Rawson AP, Burgess DR. Analysis of cytoskeletal and motility proteins in the sea urchin genome assembly. Dev Biol 2006; 300:219-37. [PMID: 17027957 PMCID: PMC2590651 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.08.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2006] [Revised: 08/18/2006] [Accepted: 08/22/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The sea urchin embryo is a classical model system for studying the role of the cytoskeleton in such events as fertilization, mitosis, cleavage, cell migration and gastrulation. We have conducted an analysis of gene models derived from the Strongylocentrotus purpuratus genome assembly and have gathered strong evidence for the existence of multiple gene families encoding cytoskeletal proteins and their regulators in sea urchin. While many cytoskeletal genes have been cloned from sea urchin with sequences already existing in public databases, genome analysis reveals a significantly higher degree of diversity within certain gene families. Furthermore, genes are described corresponding to homologs of cytoskeletal proteins not previously documented in sea urchins. To illustrate the varying degree of sequence diversity that exists within cytoskeletal gene families, we conducted an analysis of genes encoding actins, specific actin-binding proteins, myosins, tubulins, kinesins, dyneins, specific microtubule-associated proteins, and intermediate filaments. We conducted ontological analysis of select genes to better understand the relatedness of urchin cytoskeletal genes to those of other deuterostomes. We analyzed developmental expression (EST) data to confirm the existence of select gene models and to understand their differential expression during various stages of early development.
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- R L Morris
- Department of Biology, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766, USA.
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Eichenmuller B, Everley P, Palange J, Lepley D, Suprenant KA. The human EMAP-like protein-70 (ELP70) is a microtubule destabilizer that localizes to the mitotic apparatus. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:1301-9. [PMID: 11694528 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m106628200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In this report, we show that the echinoderm microtubule (MT)-associated protein (EMAP) and related EMAP-like proteins (ELPs) share a similar domain organization with a highly conserved hydrophobic ELP (HELP) domain and a large tryptophan-aspartic acid (WD) repeat domain. To determine the function of mammalian ELPs, we generated antibodies against a 70-kDa human ELP and showed that ELP70 coassembled with MTs in HeLa cell extracts and colocalized with MTs in the mitotic apparatus. To determine whether ELP70 bound to MTs directly, human ELP70 was expressed and purified to homogeneity from baculovirus-infected Sf9 cells. Purified ELP70 bound to purified MTs with a stoichiometry of 0.40 +/- 0.04 mol of ELP70/mol of tubulin dimer and with an intrinsic dissociation constant of 0.44 +/- 0.13 microm. Using a nucleated assembly assay and video-enhanced differential interference contrast microscopy, we demonstrated that ELP70 reduced seeded nucleation, reduced the growth rate, and promoted MT catastrophes in a concentration-dependent manner. As a result, ELP70-containing MTs were significantly shorter than MTs assembled from tubulin alone. These data indicate that ELP70 is a novel MT destabilizer. A lateral destabilization model is presented to describe ELP70's effects on microtubules.
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- Bernd Eichenmuller
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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Eichenmüller B, Ahrens DP, Li Q, Suprenant KA. Saturable binding of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein (EMAP) on microtubules, but not filamentous actin or vimentin filaments. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 2001; 50:161-72. [PMID: 11807937 DOI: 10.1002/cm.10002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The echinoderm microtubule-associated protein (EMAP) is a 75-kDa, WD-repeat protein associated with the mitotic spindle apparatus. To understand EMAP's biological role, it is important to determine its affinity for microtubules (MTs) and other cytoskeletal components. To accomplish this goal, we utilized a low-cost, bubble-column bioreactor to express EMAP as a hexahistidine fusion (6his) protein in baculovirus-infected insect cells. After optimizing cell growth conditions, up to 30 mg of EMAP was obtained in the soluble cell lysate from a 1-liter culture. EMAP was purified to homogeneity in a two-step process that included immobilized metal-affinity chromatography (IMAC) and anion-exchange chromatography. In vitro binding studies on cytoskeletal components were performed with the 6his-EMAP. EMAP bound to MTs, but not actin or vimentin filaments, with an intrinsic dissociation constant of 0.18 microM and binding stoichiometry of 0.7 mol EMAP per mol tubulin heterodimer. In addition, we show that a strong MT binding domain resides in the 137 amino acid, NH(2)-terminus of EMAP and a weaker binding site in the WD-domain. Previous work has shown that the EMAP concentration in the sea urchin egg is over 4 microM. Together, these results show that there is sufficient EMAP in the egg to regulate the assembly of a large pool of maternally stored tubulin.
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- B Eichenmüller
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045, USA
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Lepley DM, Palange JM, Suprenant KA. Sequence and expression patterns of a human EMAP-related protein-2 (HuEMAP-2). Gene 1999; 237:343-9. [PMID: 10521658 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(99)00335-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Until recently, the microtubule-associated protein, EMAP, was identified only in echinoderms such as sea urchin, starfish and sand dollar. Sea urchin EMAP localizes to the mitotic apparatus in vivo and modifies the assembly dynamics of microtubules in vitro. To identify domains important for EMAP function, we cloned and sequenced cDNAs for an EMAP-related protein in human. The nucleotide sequence of a human EMAP-related protein-2 (HuEMAP-2) encodes a protein of 649 amino acids in length. The translated polypeptide sequence and domain structure of sea urchin EMAP and HuEMAP-2 are highly conserved, with greater than 57% identity and 77% similarity at the translated amino acid level. Southern blot analysis is consistent with the presence of a single HuEMAP-2 gene in the human genome. Moreover, HuEMAP-2 is a member of a larger protein family with at least four HuEMAP sequences in the NCBI databases. One of these, HuEMAP-1, is identified as the candidate gene for the Usher syndrome 1 a locus (Genomics 43:104-106, 1997). Northern blot analysis indicates that HuEMAP-1, and HuEMAP-2 are expressed in different human tissues. In addition, these RNA blots indicate that HuEMAP-2 transcripts may be differentially spliced in neuronal tissues.
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- D M Lepley
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, 4010 Haworth Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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Hamill DR, Howell B, Cassimeris L, Suprenant KA. Purification of a WD repeat protein, EMAP, that promotes microtubule dynamics through an inhibition of rescue. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:9285-91. [PMID: 9535922 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.15.9285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The major microtubule-associated protein in echinoderms is a 77-kDa, WD repeat protein, called EMAP. EMAP-related proteins have been identified in sea urchins, starfish, sanddollars, and humans. We describe the purification of sea urchin EMAP and demonstrate that EMAP binding to microtubules is saturable at a molar ratio of 1 mol of EMAP to 3 mol of tubulin dimer. Unlike MAP-2, MAP-4, or tau proteins, EMAP binding to microtubules is not lost by cleavage of tubulin with subtilisin. In addition to binding to the microtubule polymer, EMAP binds to tubulin dimers in a 1:1 molar ratio. The abundance of EMAP in the egg suggests that it could function to regulate microtubule assembly. To test this hypothesis, we examined the effects of EMAP on the dynamic instability of microtubules nucleated from axoneme fragments as monitored by video-enhanced differential interference contrast microscopy. Addition of 2.2 microM EMAP to 21 microM tubulin results in a slight increase in the elongation and shortening velocities at the microtubule plus ends but not at the minus ends. Significantly, EMAP inhibits the frequency of rescue 8-fold without producing a change in the frequency of catastrophe. These results indicate that EMAP, unlike brain microtubule-associated proteins, promotes microtubule dynamics.
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- D R Hamill
- Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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Hinchcliffe EH, Linck RW. Two proteins isolated from sea urchin sperm flagella: structural components common to the stable microtubules of axonemes and centrioles. J Cell Sci 1998; 111 ( Pt 5):585-95. [PMID: 9454732 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.111.5.585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Biochemical fractionation of axonemal microtubules yields the protofilament ribbon (pf-ribbon), an insoluble structure of 3–4 longitudinal protofilaments composed primarily of alpha/beta tubulin, tektins A, B and C, and two previously uncharacterized polypeptides of 77 kDa and 83 kDa. We have isolated the 77/83 kDa polypeptides (termed Sp77 and Sp83) from sperm flagella of the sea urchin Stronglyocentrotus purpuratus and raised polyclonal antibodies against them. Sp77 and Sp83 copurify exclusively with the pf-ribbon. Both the anti-Sp77 and anti-Sp83 antibodies detected the nine outer doublets and the basal bodies of sea urchin sperm by immunofluorescence microscopy. In addition, the anti-Sp83 antibody, but not the anti-Sp77 antibody, detected a single 83 kDa polypeptide on immunoblots of unfertilized sea urchin egg cytoplasm, and a single polypeptide of 80 kDa on blots of isolated mitotic spindles from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Previous studies have shown that tektins are present in the basal bodies and centrosomes/centrioles of cells ranging from clam to human. We found that anti-Sp83 decorates the spindle poles in sea urchin zygotes, and the interphase centrosome and spindle poles in CHO cells. In CHO cells arrested in S phase with aphidicolin, anti-Sp83 detects multiple centrosomes. The staining of the centrosome was not disrupted by prolonged nocodazole treatment, suggesting that the 80 kDa polypeptide is associated with the centrioles themselves. Our observations demonstrate that, like tektins, Sp77 and Sp83 are structural proteins associated with stable doublet microtubules, and may be components of basal bodies and centrioles of sea urchins and mammalian cells.
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- E H Hinchcliffe
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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- K A Suprenant
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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Molecular characterization of the 77-kDa echinoderm microtubule-associated protein. Homology to the beta-transducin family. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)31763-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Suprenant KA, Dean K, McKee J, Hake S. EMAP, an echinoderm microtubule-associated protein found in microtubule-ribosome complexes. J Cell Sci 1993; 104:445-50. [PMID: 9867489 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.104.2.445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The major non-tubulin polypeptide found associated with microtubules purified from unfertilized sea urchin eggs by cycles of pH-dependent assembly has a Mr of 77,000. The 77,000 Mr polypeptide is heat- and acid-labile, and is antigenically distinct from the mammalian brain MAPs, MAP-2 and tau. Affinity-purified antiserum against the 77,000 Mr polypeptide was used to survey a variety of cells and tissues for the presence of antigenically related polypeptides. A cross-reacting polypeptide, ranging in Mr from 72,000 to 80,000, was found in microtubule preparations from a wide variety of echinoderms, including sea urchins, starfish and sand dollars. Indirect immunofluorescence showed that the polypetide was found in interphase as well as mitotic microtubule arrays. No cross-reacting material was detected in microtubules isolated from marine molluscs, mammalian brain or mouse B16 cultured cells. Because the 77,000 Mr MAP is abundant in echinoderms, we have called it EMAP for echinoderm microtubule-associated protein. Although the precise function of the EMAP is not known, our data suggest that the EMAP is involved in the attachment of ribosomes to microtubules. Large numbers of ribosomes are attached to the walls of EMAP-containing microtubules, but not EMAP-deficient microtubules. Removal of the EMAP from the microtubule by salt-extraction results in the release of ribosomes from the microtubule, indicating that the EMAP may form part or all of the long tapered stalk that connects these two organelles.
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- K A Suprenant
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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Michalik L, Neuville P, Vanier MT, Launay JF. Biochemical and immunochemical identification of a microtubule-binding protein from bovine pancreas. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 1993; 25:381-90. [PMID: 8104715 DOI: 10.1002/cm.970250408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We have identified a 67 kDa heat-stable protein among the proteins which bind specifically to brain microtubules immobilized on a chromatographic support. Its relationship to tubulin and to the cytoskeleton using polyclonal antibodies has been studied. This 67 kDa protein is present in cytoskeleton and microtubule preparations from pancreas. This heat-stable microtubule-associated protein (MAP) copolymerized with phosphocellulose purified brain tubulin. The 67 kDa polypeptide was immunoreactive to antibodies against the 210 kDa MAP from HeLa cells; it also reacted with antibodies against an oligopeptide whose sequence corresponded to the second repeat of mouse brain tau.
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- L Michalik
- INSERM, Unité de Biologie Cellulaire et de Physiopathologie Digestives, Strasbourg, France
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Hosoya N, Hosoya H, Mohri T, Mohri H. A 70 kD microtubule-binding protein from starfish eggs: Purification, characterization, and localization during meiosis and mitosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1002/cm.970150306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Leslie RJ, Wilson L. Preparation and characterization of mitotic cytoskeletons from embryos of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus franciscanus. Anal Biochem 1989; 181:51-8. [PMID: 2683863 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(89)90392-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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We present here a preparation protocol and molecular characterization of mitotic cytoskeletons isolated from embryos of the spiny red sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus franciscanus. The mitotic cytoskeletons are produced by detergent lysis of S. franciscanus embryos during cell division and consist of a mitotic apparatus enclosed in a thin shell of cortical filaments. Mitotic cytoskeletons produced in this way are stable for a year at liquid nitrogen temperature. S. franciscanus is of interest because it is commercially available in large quantities and each animal provides prodigious amounts of gametes. Furthermore, embryos from this sea urchin will develop synchronously at high densities and are an excellent source of quantities of cytoskeletal proteins appropriate for biochemical studies.
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- R J Leslie
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106
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Taxol is a plant alkaloid that binds to and strongly stabilizes microtubules. Taxol-treated microtubules resist depolymerization under a variety of conditions that readily disassemble untreated microtubules. We report here that taxol-treated microtubules can be induced to disassemble by a combination of depolymerizating conditions. Reversible cycles of disassembly and reassembly were carried out using taxol-containing microtubules from calf brain and sea urchin eggs by shifting temperature in the presence of millimolar levels of Ca2+. Microtubules depolymerized completely, yielding dimers and ring-shaped oligomers as revealed by negative stain electron microscopy and Bio-Gel A-15m chromatography, and reassembled into well-formed microtubule polymer structures. Microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs), including species previously identified only by taxol-based purification such as MAP 1B and kinesin, were found to copurify with tubulin through reversible assembly cycles. To determine whether taxol remained bound to tubulin subunits, we subjected depolymerized taxol-treated microtubule protein to Sephadex G-25 chromatography, and the fractions were assayed for taxol content by reverse-phase HPLC. Taxol was found to be dissociated from the depolymerized microtubules. Protein treated in this way was found to be competent to reassemble, but now required conditions comparable with those for protein that had never been exposed to taxol. Thus, the binding of taxol to tubulin can be reversed. This has implications for the mechanism of taxol action and for the purification of microtubules from a wide variety of sources for use in self-assembly experiments.
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- C A Collins
- Cell Biology Group, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 01545
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Hirokawa N, Hisanaga S. "Buttonin," a unique button-shaped microtubule-associated protein (75 kD) that decorates spindle microtubule surface hexagonally. J Cell Biol 1987; 104:1553-61. [PMID: 3584241 PMCID: PMC2114500 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.104.6.1553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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A 75-kD protein was purified from sea urchin egg microtubule proteins through gel filtration. It enhanced the polymerization of porcine brain tubulin, but was not heat-stable and did not bind to calmodulin in the presence of calcium as demonstrated by calmodulin affinity column chromatography. Rotary shadowing of the freeze-etched 75-kD protein adsorbed on mica revealed the protein to be a spherical molecule (approximately 9 nm in diameter). Quick-freeze deep-etch electron microscopy revealed that the surface of microtubules polymerized with 75-kD protein was entirely covered with hexagonally packed, round, button-like structures that were quite uniform in shape and size (approximately 9 nm) and similar to the buttons observed on microtubules of mitotic spindles in vivo or microtubules isolated from mitotic spindles. Judging from calibration studies of molecular mass by gel filtration, the 75-kD protein probably exists in a dimeric form (approximately 150 kD) in its native condition. The stoichiometry of tubulin (dimer) versus 75-kD protein (dimer) in the polymerized pellet was 3-3.4:1. Hence, we concluded that the 75-kD protein was a unique microtubule-associated protein that formed the microtubule button in vivo and in vitro. We propose to name this protein "buttonin".
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Bastmeyer M, Fuge H. The distribution of intermicrotubular bridges in meiotic spindles of the crane fly. Chromosoma 1986; 94:419-24. [PMID: 3829830 DOI: 10.1007/bf00328643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The distribution of intermicrotubular bridges in spindles of tipulid spermatocytes (Pales ferruginea, first meiotic division) was analyzed using serial sections of pre-selected cells. Bridges were found in all spindle regions, including kinetochore microtubules and free microtubules in the chromosome fiber. The dimensions of bridges were variable, ranging between 60 and 300 A in length and 40 and 190 A in thickness. Bridges seem to be randomly distributed. No accumulation in or absence from particular spindle regions was detected. Quantitative analysis revealed a linear, positive correlation between the number of microtubules and the number of microtubule pairs capable of forming bridges and, on the other hand, between microtubule pairs and intermicrotubular bridges. The possible composition and significance of bridges are discussed.
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Collins CA, Vallee RB. A microtubule-activated ATPase from sea urchin eggs, distinct from cytoplasmic dynein and kinesin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1986; 83:4799-803. [PMID: 2873571 PMCID: PMC323829 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.13.4799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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We report an ATPase activity, present in sea urchin egg cytosol, that is activated by microtubules. The activity sediments at 10 S in sucrose gradients and is clearly distinct from activities at 12 S and 20 S due to cytoplasmic dynein. Potent activation of the ATPase is observed when endogenous egg tubulin is induced to assemble with taxol or when exogenous taxol-stabilized pure brain tubulin microtubules or flagellar outer-doublet microtubules are added. No activation by tubulin subunits or taxol alone is detectable. In contrast to flagellar or cytoplasmic dynein, the microtubule-activated enzyme is unaffected by vanadate or by nonionic detergents and hydrolyzes GTP in addition to ATP. In contrast to kinesin, it cosediments with microtubules in the presence or absence of ATP. The microtubule-activated enzyme may have a role in microtubule-based motility.
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Bloom GS, Luca FC, Collins CA, Vallee RB. Isolation of mitotic microtubule-associated proteins from sea urchin eggs. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1986; 466:328-39. [PMID: 3524371 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1986.tb38404.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We have used a taxol-based microtubule purification procedure and monoclonal antibodies to isolate and characterize the MAPs of mitotic spindle microtubules in the fertilized sea urchin egg. In so doing, we hope to have identified some of the essential working parts of the mitotic apparatus, namely those proteins that regulate the assembly, disassembly, organization and mechanochemical properties of spindle microtubules. The results of this effort strongly suggest that a rich diversity of polypeptides associate with mitotic spindle microtubules. Whether each of these represents an individual protein species is not currently known. It is possible, for example, that particular spindle MAPs comprise multiple, distinct subunits. This would not be surprising in light of the facts that both MAP-1 and MAP-2 contain lower molecular weight subunits, and that axonemal dyneins are complex assemblies of several polypeptide species. Our future efforts with the sea urchin system will be to determine how the various mitotic spindle MAPs we have identified function individually and in concert, and how those functions contribute to the mechanochemical properties of the spindle.
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Vallee RB, Collins CA. Purification of microtubules and microtubule-associated proteins from sea urchin eggs and cultured mammalian cells using taxol, and use of exogenous taxol-stabilized brain microtubules for purifying microtubule-associated proteins. Methods Enzymol 1986; 134:116-27. [PMID: 2881189 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(86)34080-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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