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Liu C, Liu D, Wang F, Liu Y, Xie J, Xie J, Xie Y. Construction of a novel choline metabolism-related signature to predict prognosis, immune landscape, and chemotherapy response in colon adenocarcinoma. Front Immunol 2022; 13:1038927. [PMID: 36451813 PMCID: PMC9701742 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1038927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) is a common digestive system malignancy with high mortality and poor prognosis. Accumulating evidence indicates that choline metabolism is closely related to tumorigenesis and development. However, the efficacy of choline metabolism-related signature in predicting patient prognosis, immune microenvironment and chemotherapy response has not been fully clarified. METHODS Choline metabolism-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between normal and COAD tissues were screened using datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), AmiGO2 and Reactome Pathway databases. Two choline metabolism-related genes (CHKB and PEMT) were identified by univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses. TCGA-COAD was the training cohort, and GSE17536 was the validation cohort. Patients in the high- and low-risk groups were distinguished according to the optimal cutoff value of the risk score. A nomogram was used to assess the prognostic accuracy of the choline metabolism-related signature. Calibration curves, decision curve analysis (DCA), and clinical impact curve (CIC) were used to improve the clinical applicability of the prognostic signature. Gene Ontology (GO) and KEGG pathway enrichment analyses of DEGs in the high- and low-risk groups were performed. KEGG cluster analysis was conducted by the KOBAS-i database. The distribution and expression of CHKB and PEMT in various types of immune cells were analyzed based on single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). The CIBERSORT and ESTIMATE algorithms evaluated tumor immune cell infiltration in the high- and low-risk groups. Evaluation of the half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) of common chemotherapeutic drugs based on the choline metabolism-related signature was performed. Small molecule compounds were predicted using the Connectivity Map (CMap) database. Molecular docking is used to simulate the binding conformation of small molecule compounds and key targets. By immunohistochemistry (IHC), Western blot, quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) experiments, the expression levels of CHKB and PEMT in human, mouse, and cell lines were detected. RESULTS We constructed and validated a choline metabolism-related signature containing two genes (CHKB and PEMT). The overall survival (OS) of patients in the high-risk group was significantly worse than that of patients in the low-risk group. The nomogram could effectively and accurately predict the OS of COAD patients at 1, 3, and 5 years. The DCA curve and CIC demonstrate the clinical utility of the nomogram. scRNA-seq showed that CHKB was mainly distributed in endothelial cells, while PEMT was mainly distributed in CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells. In addition, multiple types of immune cells expressing CHKB and PEMT differed significantly. There were significant differences in the immune microenvironment, immune checkpoint expression and chemotherapy response between the two risk groups. In addition, we screened five potential small molecule drugs that targeted treatment for COAD. Finally, the results of IHC, Western blot, and qRT-PCR consistently showed that the expression of CHKB in human, mouse, and cell lines was elevated in normal samples, while PMET showed the opposite trend. CONCLUSION In conclusion, we constructed a choline metabolism-related signature in COAD and revealed its potential application value in predicting the prognosis, immune microenvironment, and chemotherapy response of patients, which may lay an important theoretical basis for future personalized precision therapy.
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- Cong Liu
- Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Gastroenterology Institute of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Digestive Diseases of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Clinical Research Center for Gastroenterology, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Gastroenterology Institute of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Digestive Diseases of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Clinical Research Center for Gastroenterology, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Gastroenterology Institute of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Digestive Diseases of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Clinical Research Center for Gastroenterology, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Gastroenterology Institute of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Digestive Diseases of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Clinical Research Center for Gastroenterology, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Gastroenterology Institute of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Digestive Diseases of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Clinical Research Center for Gastroenterology, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Gastroenterology Institute of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Digestive Diseases of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Clinical Research Center for Gastroenterology, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Gastroenterology Institute of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Digestive Diseases of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Clinical Research Center for Gastroenterology, Nanchang, China
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Wang J, Miller DD, Li W. Molecular interactions at the colchicine binding site in tubulin: An X-ray crystallography perspective. Drug Discov Today 2022; 27:759-776. [PMID: 34890803 PMCID: PMC8901563 DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2021.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Tubulin is an important cancer drug target. Compounds that bind at the colchicine site in tubulin have attracted significant interest as they are generally less affected by multidrug resistance than other potential drugs. Modeling is useful in understanding the interactions between tubulin and colchicine binding site inhibitors (CBSIs), but because the colchicine binding site contains two flexible loops whose conformations are highly ligand-dependent, modeling has its limitations. X-ray crystallography provides experimental pictures of tubulin-ligand interactions at this challenging colchicine site. Since 2004, when the first X-ray structure of tubulin in complex with N-deacetyl-N-(2-mercaptoacetyl)-colchicine (DAMA-colchicine) was published, many X-ray crystal structures have been reported for tubulin complexes involving the colchicine binding site. In this review, we summarize the crystal structures of tubulin in complexes with various CBSIs, aiming to facilitate the discovery of new generations of tubulin inhibitors.
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- Jiaxing Wang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
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Ichikawa M, Negoro R, Kawai K, Yamashita T, Takayama K, Mizuguchi H. Vinblastine treatment decreases the undifferentiated cell contamination of human iPSC-derived intestinal epithelial-like cells. MOLECULAR THERAPY-METHODS & CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT 2021; 20:463-472. [PMID: 33614822 PMCID: PMC7868938 DOI: 10.1016/j.omtm.2021.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived intestinal epithelial cells (hiPSC-IECs) are expected to be utilized in regenerative medicine. To perform a safe transplantation without the risk of tumor formation, residual undifferentiated hiPSCs must be removed from hiPSC-IECs. In this study, we examined whether vinblastine (a multiple drug resistance 1 [MDR1] substrate) could remove residual undifferentiated hiPSCs in hiPSC-IECs and attempted to generate hiPSC-IECs applicable to transplantation medicine. We found that the expression levels of pluripotent markers were largely decreased and those of intestinal markers were increased by vinblastine treatment. The treatment of undifferentiated hiPSCs with vinblastine significantly decreased their viability. These results suggested that undifferentiated hiPSCs can be eliminated from hiPSC-IECs by vinblastine treatment. We hypothesized that MDR1-negative cells (such as undifferentiated hiPSCs) die upon vinblastine treatment because they are unable to excrete vinblastine. As expected, the cell viability of MDR1-knockout hiPSC-IECs was significantly decreased by vinblastine treatment. Furthermore, teratomas were formed by subcutaneous transplantation of hiPSC-IECs mixed with undifferentiated hiPSCs into mice, but they were not observed when the transplanted cells were pre-treated with vinblastine. Vinblastine-treated hiPSC-IECs would be an effective cell source for safe regenerative medicine.
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- Moe Ichikawa
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.,Laboratory of Hepatocyte Regulation, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Osaka 567-0085, Japan
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.,Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.,Laboratory of Hepatocyte Regulation, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Osaka 567-0085, Japan.,Global Center for Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.,Integrated Frontier Research for Medical Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI), Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Ranaivoson FM, Gigant B, Berritt S, Joullié M, Knossow M. Structural plasticity of tubulin assembly probed by vinca-domain ligands. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D: BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2012; 68:927-34. [DOI: 10.1107/s0907444912017143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2011] [Accepted: 04/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Amos LA. What tubulin drugs tell us about microtubule structure and dynamics. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2011; 22:916-26. [PMID: 22001382 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2011.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2011] [Accepted: 09/29/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A wide range of small molecules, including alkaloids, macrolides and peptides, bind to tubulin and disturb microtubule assembly dynamics. Some agents inhibit assembly, others inhibit disassembly. The binding sites of drugs that stabilize microtubules are discussed in relation to the properties of microtubule associated proteins. The activities of assembly inhibitors are discussed in relation to different nucleotide states of tubulin family protein structures.
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- Linda A Amos
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
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Aylett CH, Löwe J, Amos LA. New Insights into the Mechanisms of Cytomotive Actin and Tubulin Filaments. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 292:1-71. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-386033-0.00001-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Cormier A, Knossow M, Wang C, Gigant B. The binding of vinca domain agents to tubulin: structural and biochemical studies. Methods Cell Biol 2010; 95:373-90. [PMID: 20466145 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(10)95020-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Vinca domain ligands are small molecules that interfere with the binding of vinblastine to tubulin and inhibit microtubule assembly. Many such compounds cause isodesmic association which results in difficulties in biochemical or structural studies of their interaction with tubulin. The complex of two tubulins with the stathmin-like domain of the RB3 protein (T(2)R) is a protofilament-like short assembly that does not assemble further. This has allowed structural studies of the binding of several vinca domain ligands by X-ray crystallography as crystals of the corresponding complexes diffract to near atomic resolution. This proved that their sites are located at the interface of two tubulin molecules arranged as in a curved protofilament. These sites overlap with that of vinblastine. Structural data are generally consistent with the results of available structure-function studies, though subtle differences exist. Binding in solution to the vinca domain displayed in T(2)R is conveniently studied by fluorescence spectroscopy or by monitoring inhibition of the T(2)R GTPase activity. In addition, inhibition of nucleotide exchange allows characterization of the binding to the vinca domain moiety displayed by the beta-subunit of an isolated tubulin molecule. T(2)R is therefore a useful tool to characterize and dissect the binding of vinca domain ligands to tubulin. In addition, these studies have provided new information on the interaction of tubulin with guanine nucleotides, namely on the mechanisms of nucleotide exchange and hydrolysis.
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- Anthony Cormier
- Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, CNRS UPR3082, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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Microtubule-destabilizing agents: structural and mechanistic insights from the interaction of colchicine and vinblastine with tubulin. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2008; 286:259-78. [PMID: 23563615 DOI: 10.1007/128_2008_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Microtubules (MTs) are dynamic structures of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton that, during cell division, form the mitotic spindle. Perturbing them leads to mitotic arrest and ultimately to cell death. Consistently, MTs and their building block, αβ tubulin, are one of the best characterized targets in anti-cancer chemotherapy. Drugs that interfere with MTs either stabilize or destabilize them. The latter class is the subject of this review. These ligands bind to the colchicine site or to the vinca domain, two distinct sites located at a distance from each other on tubulin. Nevertheless the effects of both classes of ligands share a common theme, they prevent the formation of MT specific contacts, therefore triggering their disassembly.
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Margiolaki I, Wright JP. Powder crystallography on macromolecules. Acta Crystallogr A 2007; 64:169-80. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108767307043735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2007] [Accepted: 09/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Following the seminal work of Von Dreele, powder X-ray diffraction studies on proteins are being established as a valuable complementary technique to single-crystal measurements. A wide range of small proteins have been found to give synchrotron powder diffraction profiles where the peak widths are essentially limited only by the instrumental resolution. The rich information contained in these profiles, combined with developments in data analysis, has stimulated research and development to apply the powder technique to microcrystalline protein samples. In the present work, progress in using powder diffraction for macromolecular crystallography is reported.
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Von Dreele RB. Protein Crystal Structure Analysis from High-Resolution X-Ray Powder-Diffraction Data. Methods Enzymol 2003; 368:254-67. [PMID: 14674278 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(03)68014-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Although high-resolution powder diffraction of proteins is in its infancy, we can easily see future developments of the method that will allow examination of protein structures that exceed 100 kDa. In particular, current data-collection technology scans the powder-diffraction pattern a few points at a time over a very narrow field of view. The use of high-resolution imaging technology and X-ray focusing optics should improve this 1000-fold or more, making it possible to use powder diffraction on a laboratory X-ray source to screen for the formation of protein/drug complexes and to determine their structures.
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- Robert B Von Dreele
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lujan Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Schönbrunn E, Phlippen W, Trinczek B, Sack S, Eschenburg S, Mandelkow EM, Mandelkow E. Crystallization of a macromolecular ring assembly of tubulin liganded with the anti-mitotic drug podophyllotoxin. J Struct Biol 1999; 128:211-5. [PMID: 10600574 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1999.4183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The interaction of the anti-cancer drug podophyllotoxin with a high-molecular-weight assembly of tubulin has been employed to produce three-dimensional crystals from avian erythrocyte tubulin as well as from pig brain tubulin. Avian erythrocyte tubulin crystals belong to the space group C2 with unit cell dimensions a = 740 A, b = 330 A, c = 460 A, beta = 128 degrees. The basis of these crystals is ring oligomers with a molecular mass of approximately 6 x 10(6) Da. So far, the crystals diffract to 8-A resolution and a first complete data set to 12-A resolution has been collected under cryogenic conditions. The crystals grew from conventionally purified tubulin consisting of multiple isoforms and different posttranslational modifications. Thus, the use of highly homogeneous tubulin preparations should improve the diffraction quality of these crystals.
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- E Schönbrunn
- Max-Planck-Unit for Structural Molecular Biology, c/o DESY, Hamburg, 22603, Germany.
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Verdier-Pinard P, Garès M, Wright M. Differential in vitro association of vinca alkaloid-induced tubulin spiral filaments into aggregated spirals. Biochem Pharmacol 1999; 58:959-71. [PMID: 10509748 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(99)00190-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Vinblastine, vincristine, vindesine, and vinorelbine, the four vinca alkaloids used in cancer therapy, differ in their antitumoral spectra and toxicities, but not in their inhibitory effects on microtubule assembly in vitro. At higher drug concentrations, vinca alkaloids induce the assembly of spiral filaments of tubulin, which, in turn, can interact laterally and form paracrystals. Using methods that distinguish spiral filaments and paracrystals (aggregated spirals), we found that spiral filament formation was largely independent of the incubation temperature, of the alkaloid used, and of the presence or absence of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). In contrast, the formation of aggregated spirals was markedly dependent on the alkaloid used, on the incubation temperature, and on the absence or presence of MAPs. Aggregated spirals failed to assemble in the presence of high concentrations of MAP-1A or MAP-1B, whereas they assembled readily with tau and MAP-2. Differences in patterns of turbidity development using pure tubulin allowed the classification of thirteen cytotoxic vinca alkaloids into five distinct groups, with centrifugal recovery of aggregated spirals in close agreement with the various turbidity patterns. With microtubule protein, i.e. tubulin preparations containing MAPs, only four groups were defined by turbidity patterns, and centrifugal protein recovery was more divergent. Vinblastine, vincristine, vindesine, and vinorelbine fell into distinct groups under both reaction conditions, and thus they appear to have qualitatively distinguishable in vitro interactions with tubulin. These differential effects on spiral filament and aggregated spiral assembly revealed that the four drugs induce different constraints on the tubulin molecule.
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- P Verdier-Pinard
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, C.N.R.S. Toulouse, France.
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Rai SS, Wolff J. Localization of critical histidyl residues required for vinblastine-induced tubulin polymerization and for microtubule assembly. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:31131-7. [PMID: 9813016 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.47.31131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Vinblastine-induced tubulin polymerization is electrostatically regulated and shows pH dependence with a pI approximately 7.0 suggesting the involvement of histidyl residues. Modification of histidyl residues of tubulin with diethylpyrocarbonate (DEPC) at a mole ratio of 0.74 (DEPC/total His residues) for 3 min at 25 degreesC completely inhibited vinblastine-induced polymerization with little effect on microtubule assembly. Under these conditions DEPC reacts only with histidyl residues. For complete inhibition two histidyl residues have to be modified. Demodification of the carboxyethyl histidyl derivatives by hydroxylamine led to nearly complete recovery of polymerization competence. Labeling with [14C]DEPC localized both of these histidyl residues on beta-tubulin at beta227 and beta264. Similarly, tubulin modification with DEPC for longer times (8 min) resulted in complete inhibition of microtubule assembly, at which time approximately 4 histidyl residues had been modified. This inhibition by DEPC was also reversed by hydroxylamine. The third histidyl residue was found on alpha-tubulin at alpha88. Thus, two charged histidyl residues are obligatorily involved in vinblastine-induced polymerization, whereas a different histidyl residue on a different tubulin monomer is involved in microtubule assembly.
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- S S Rai
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Lobert S, Boyd CA, Correia JJ. Divalent cation and ionic strength effects on Vinca alkaloid-induced tubulin self-association. Biophys J 1997; 72:416-27. [PMID: 8994628 PMCID: PMC1184332 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(97)78682-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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We present here a systematic study of ionic strength and divalent cation effects on Vinca alkaloid-induced tubulin spiral formation. We used sedimentation velocity experiments and quantitative fitting of weight-average sedimentation coefficients versus free drug concentrations to obtain thermodynamic parameters under various solution conditions. The addition of 50-150 mM NaCl to our standard buffer (10 mM piperazine-N,N'-bis(2-ethanesulfonic acid), 1 mM Mg, 50 microM GDP or GTP, pH 6.9) enhances overall vinblastine- or vincristine-induced tubulin self-association. As demonstrated in previous studies, GDP enhances overall self-association more than GTP, although in the presence of salt, GDP enhancement is reduced. For example, in 150 mM NaCl, GDP enhancement is 0.24 kcal/mol for vinblastine and 0.36 kcal/mol for vincristine versus an average enhancement of 0.87 (+/- 0.34) kcal/mol for the same drugs in the absence of salt. Wyman linkage analysis of experiments with vinblastine or vincristine over a range of NaCl concentrations showed a twofold increase in the change in NaCl bound to drug-induced spirals in the presence of GTP compared to GDP. These data indicate that GDP enhancement of Vinca alkaloid-induced tubulin self-association is due in part to electrostatic inhibition in the GTP state. In the absence of NaCl, we found that vinblastine and 1 mM Mn2+ or Ca2+ causes immediate condensation of tubulin. The predominant aggregates observed by electron microscopy are large sheets. This effect was not found with 1 mM Mg2+. At 100 microM cation concentrations (Mn2+, Mg2+, or Ca2+), GDP enhances vinblastine-induced spiral formation by 0.55 (+/- 0.26) kcal/mol. This effect is found only in K2, the association of liganded heterodimers at the ends of growing spirals. There is no GDP enhancement of K1, the binding of drug to heterodimer, although K1 is dependent upon the divalent cation concentration. NaCl diminishes tubulin condensation, probably by inhibiting lateral association, and allows an investigation of higher divalent cation concentrations. In the presence of 150 mM NaCl plus 1 mM divalent cations (Mn2+, Mg2+, or Ca2+) GDP enhances vinblastine-induced spiral formation by 0.35 (+/- 0.21) kcal/mol. Relaxation times determined by stopped-flow light scattering experiments in the presence of 150 mM NaCl and vincristine are severalfold longer than those in the presence of vinblastine, consistent with a mechanism involving the redistribution of longer polymers. Unlike previous results in the absence of NaCl, relaxation times in the presence of NaCl are only weekly protein concentration dependent, suggesting the absence of annealing or an additional rate-limiting step in the mechanism.
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- S Lobert
- School of Nursing, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson 39216, USA.
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Bellocq C, Andrey-Tornare I, Paunier Doret AM, Maeder B, Paturle L, Job D, Haiech J, Edelstein SJ. Purification of assembly-competent tubulin from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 210:343-9. [PMID: 1446683 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17427.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We have developed a straightforward, two-step procedure to isolate highly purified yeast tubulin that reproducibly assembles into microtubules. The starting extracts are obtained from cells genetically engineered to overproduce both the alpha and beta subunits of tubulin, under control of the galactose promoter, to approximately 10-times wild-type levels. The first step of purification is carried out with the high-speed supernatant of lysed cells loaded onto a DEAE-Sephadex column; after this step the tubulin preparation is approximately 30% pure. In the second step, the tubulin fractions are loaded onto an immunoaffinity column prepared by coupling the anti-(alpha-tubulin) monoclonal antibody YL 1/2 to Sepharose-4B. Following elution with 0.8 M KCl, the tubulin present in the peak is 90% pure. Upon addition of porcine brain microtubule-associated proteins or DEAE-dextran, this tubulin preparation is functionally active for assembly into microtubules, as visualized by electron microscopy on negatively stained samples. Virtually identical microtubule structures are produced in parallel experiments on the assembly of yeast or porcine brain tubulin, with differences observed only at acidic pH values. Overall, this relatively simple procedure provides a useful tool for the production of functional tubulin suitable both for structural studies and for investigations of the assembly process.
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- C Bellocq
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Hodgkinson JL, Hutton T, Medrano FJ, Bordas J. X-ray solution scattering studies on vinblastine-induced polymers of microtubule protein: structural characterisation and effects of temperature. J Struct Biol 1992; 109:28-38. [PMID: 1286008 DOI: 10.1016/1047-8477(92)90064-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We report here on X-ray solution scattering and electron microscopy studies of microtubule protein in the presence of the antimitotic drug, vinblastine. In buffer conditions used for microtubule assembly, vinblastine caused the formation of coil-like structures. The coils appeared to be made up of two protofilaments. Details of the structure and behaviour of coils in solution were obtained from interpretation of their solution scattering patterns. Upon increasing temperature from 4 to 37 degrees C the pitch of the coils increased from 25.92 to 26.96 nm. However, little change was observed in their mean diameters (38.46 and 38.45 nm, respectively). Increasing the temperature also favoured increased formation and/or elongation of the coils. The effect of temperature on the pitch was fully reversible. Vinblastine-induced assembly of pure tubulin also showed the formation of coils. However, these coils appeared to consist of only one protofilament. Their mean diameters (38.35 nm) were similar to those of the coils formed from microtubule protein.
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Wright M, Garès M, Verdier-Pinard P, Moisand A, Berlion M, Legrand JJ, Bizzari JP. Differential in vitro action of S-12363, a new vinblastine derivative, and of its epimer on microtubule proteins. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 1991; 28:434-40. [PMID: 1934248 DOI: 10.1007/bf00685819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The action of two epimers of a new vinblastine derivative that differ in their in vivo antitumor activity and their cytotoxicity was studied in vitro in brain microtubule proteins. These two compounds, called S-12363 and S-12362, could not be distinguished from one another or from other active vinca alkaloids by their ability to prevent microtubule assembly. However, they differed strongly both from one another and from vincristine and vinblastine in their ability to induce the formation of tubulin paracrystals and in the stability of the paracrystals following temperature shifts from 0 degree to 37 degrees C and vice versa. The most potent drug, S-12363, induced considerable tubulin aggregation, which was even more pronounced than that observed in the presence of vincristine. Previous results have shown that S-12363, in contrast to vincristine, induces no neurotoxic effects. This observation is in disagreement with a direct relationship between tubulin aggregation and neurotoxicity.
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- M Wright
- C.N.R.S., Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie Fondamentales, Toulouse, France
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The dimeric Vinca alkaloids represent a group of important anti-tumor compounds whose intracellular target is tubulin, the protein monomer of microtubules. In this review data on the binding of these drugs to tubulin and microtubules in vitro are examined. The binding to tubulin is linked to a protein self-association reaction described by Na and Timasheff (1986a) as a ligand-induced plus ligand-mediated isodesmic self-association reaction. The simplest model which fits the binding data is one in which there is one intrinsic site which is linked to the self-association process. Effects of solution variables on the binding and self-association explain the wide variation of reported apparent binding constants for Vinca alkaloids to tubulin. The Vinca drugs also bind to microtubules via a low number of sites at the ends of microtubules with apparent high affinity and which are involved in the inhibition of tubulin dimer addition to the microtubule ends, and to sites along the microtubule wall with apparent low affinity which are involved in the disruption of the microtubules into spiraled protofilaments. This review also compares available binding data for different natural and semi-synthetic Vinca alkaloids.
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- R H Himes
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045-2106
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Unger E, Böhm KJ, Vater W. Structural diversity and dynamics of microtubules and polymorphic tubulin assemblies. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY REVIEWS 1990; 3:355-95. [PMID: 2103347 DOI: 10.1016/0892-0354(90)90007-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Tubulin, the main protein of microtubules (MTs), has the potency of forming a variety of other assembly products in vitro: rings, ring-crystals, C- and S-shaped ribbons, 10 nm fibres, hoops, sheets, heaped sheets, MT doublets, MT triplets, double-wall MTs, microtubules, curled ribbons, and paracrystals. The supramolecular subunits of all of them are the protofilaments which might be arranged either parallel to the axis (e.g., in MTs, ribbons) or curved (e.g., in hoops, microtubules). There is strong evidence that in the second case the protofilaments have an inside-out orientation compared to MTs. All assembly products mentioned are described structurally and their relevance to the in vivo situation is considered. Moreover, MTs and the other assemblies undergo permanent changes. These dynamics occurring in both individual assemblies and assembly populations are discussed from the structural point of view.
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- E Unger
- Academy of Sciences of the G.D.R., Central Institute of Microbiology and Experimental Therapy, Jena
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Na GC, Timasheff SN. Interaction of vinblastine with calf brain tubulin: effects of magnesium ions. Biochemistry 1986; 25:6222-8. [PMID: 3790519 DOI: 10.1021/bi00368a058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The effects of magnesium ions on the binding of the anticancer drug vinblastine to calf brain tubulin were investigated by a batch gel equilibration method. Magnesium ions at 1 mM strongly enhanced the binding of the first vinblastine molecule to each tubulin dimer without affecting either the drug affinity toward the rest of the binding site or the total stoichiometry of the vinblastine binding to tubulin. Sedimentation velocity studies indicated that magnesium ions can enhance strongly the vinblastine-induced tubulin self-association and suggested that the drug-induced self-association still proceeds through the isodesmic indefinite mechanism in the presence of the divalent cation. In PG buffer (0.01 M NaPi, 10(-4) M GTP, pH 7.0) containing more than 2.5 mM MgCl2, vinblastine induced tubulin to form large amorphous aggregates. The aggregate formation was rapid and took place at a drug stoichiometry between 0.7 and 1.0 mol of vinblastine per mole of tubulin dimers. Increasing the solution ionic strength decreased the rate of aggregate formation. Between an ionic strength of 0.05 and 0.1, the self-association led to the formation of paracrystalline aggregates instead of the amorphous ones. The results indicated that the binding of only the first vinblastine molecule to each tubulin dimer is linked to the self-association of the protein. They also confirmed our previously proposed rationale for the disagreement among the vinblastine-tubulin binding constants reported in the literature in terms of the different magnesium ion concentrations and ionic strength of the buffers used in the various studies.
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Jordan MA, Margolis RL, Himes RH, Wilson L. Identification of a distinct class of vinblastine binding sites on microtubules. J Mol Biol 1986; 187:61-73. [PMID: 3959083 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(86)90406-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Vinblastine, at concentrations above approximately 1 to 2 microM, causes depolymerization of steady-state bovine brain microtubules in vitro by a fraying of microtubule ends into protofilament-like spirals. Microtubule depolymerization is associated with the binding of vinblastine in approximately molar stoichiometry to tubulin in microtubules with apparent low affinity, as determined by binding experiments with radiolabeled vinblastine and by the ability of vinblastine to inhibit DEAE-dextran decoration of microtubule surfaces. Our data suggest that depolymerization occurs by a propagated mechanism, initially involving binding of vinblastine to a limited number of available sites on microtubule surfaces. This appears to cause loosening of protofilament associations which results in the exposure of new vinblastine-binding sites. Additional vinblastine binding in turn results in further loosening of protofilament associations. Such loosening, when it occurs at microtubule ends, results in protofilament-like splaying and end-wise depolymerization. Microtubule depolymerization appears mechanistically distinct from inhibition of microtubule polymerization by the drug, which is associated with the binding of vinblastine to small numbers of high-affinity binding sites on tubulin at one or both microtubule ends.
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