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Leclerc S, Arntz Y, Taniguchi Y. Extending Single Molecule Imaging to Proteome Analysis by Quantitation of Fluorescent Labeling Homogeneity in Complex Protein Samples. Bioconjug Chem 2018; 29:2541-2549. [PMID: 29975043 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.8b00226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Fluorescence-based electrophoresis has been widely used for proteome analysis in which every protein species in cells is labeled with a fluorescent dye, separated by electric migration, and quantified using fluorescence detection. The ultimate limit of sensitivity for this approach could be reached by single-molecule fluorescence imaging and counting individual proteins, requiring exhaustive fluorescent labeling of proteins across molecular populations and species. However, it remains unclear how homogeneous the fluorescence labeling of individual protein molecules of each species is across the proteome. To address this question, we developed a method to measure the labeling homogeneity based on a single-molecule fluorescence counting assay. Our results reveal that the proportion of proteins labeled with at least one dye, called labeling occupancy (LO), was 35% for fluorescently labeled BSA using existing protocols. We then found that the LO could be improved to 82% under high pH and surfactant-rich conditions. Furthermore, when a proteome sample from a human cell lysate was analyzed, the total LO was 71%, whereby the values varied between 50 and 90% for low and high molecular weight proteome fractions, respectively. The results support the possibility of sensitive detection of proteins using single-molecule counting with fluorescent labeling at the proteome scale.
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- Simon Leclerc
- Laboratory for Cell Systems Control , RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research , 6-2-3 Furuedai , Suita , Osaka 565-0874 , Japan.,Laboratoire de Biomatériaux et Bioimagerie , INSERM 1121 Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Médecine , 4 rue Human , F-67000 Strasbourg , France
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- Laboratoire de Biomatériaux et Bioimagerie , INSERM 1121 Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Médecine , 4 rue Human , F-67000 Strasbourg , France
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- Laboratory for Cell Systems Control , RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research , 6-2-3 Furuedai , Suita , Osaka 565-0874 , Japan.,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency , 4-1-8 Honcho , Kawaguchi , Saitama 332-0012 , Japan
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Gao X, Hannoush RN. Method for Cellular Imaging of Palmitoylated Proteins with Clickable Probes and Proximity Ligation Applied to Hedgehog, Tubulin, and Ras. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:4544-50. [DOI: 10.1021/ja410068g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Xinxin Gao
- Department of Early Discovery
Biochemistry, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Department of Early Discovery
Biochemistry, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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Kapus A, Janmey P. Plasma membrane--cortical cytoskeleton interactions: a cell biology approach with biophysical considerations. Compr Physiol 2013; 3:1231-81. [PMID: 23897686 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c120015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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From a biophysical standpoint, the interface between the cell membrane and the cytoskeleton is an intriguing site where a "two-dimensional fluid" interacts with an exceedingly complex three-dimensional protein meshwork. The membrane is a key regulator of the cytoskeleton, which not only provides docking sites for cytoskeletal elements through transmembrane proteins, lipid binding-based, and electrostatic interactions, but also serves as the source of the signaling events and molecules that control cytoskeletal organization and remolding. Conversely, the cytoskeleton is a key determinant of the biophysical and biochemical properties of the membrane, including its shape, tension, movement, composition, as well as the mobility, partitioning, and recycling of its constituents. From a cell biological standpoint, the membrane-cytoskeleton interplay underlies--as a central executor and/or regulator--a multitude of complex processes including chemical and mechanical signal transduction, motility/migration, endo-/exo-/phagocytosis, and other forms of membrane traffic, cell-cell, and cell-matrix adhesion. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the tight structural and functional coupling between the membrane and the cytoskeleton. As biophysical approaches, both theoretical and experimental, proved to be instrumental for our understanding of the membrane/cytoskeleton interplay, this review will "oscillate" between the cell biological phenomena and the corresponding biophysical principles and considerations. After describing the types of connections between the membrane and the cytoskeleton, we will focus on a few key physical parameters and processes (force generation, curvature, tension, and surface charge) and will discuss how these contribute to a variety of fundamental cell biological functions.
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- András Kapus
- Keenan Research Center, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital and Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Ludueña RF. A Hypothesis on the Origin and Evolution of Tubulin. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 302:41-185. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-407699-0.00002-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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He YF, Chen HJ, Qian LH, He LF, Buzby JS. Diphenyleneiodonium protects preoligodendrocytes against endotoxin-activated microglial NADPH oxidase-generated peroxynitrite in a neonatal rat model of periventricular leukomalacia. Brain Res 2012; 1492:108-21. [PMID: 23174417 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2012] [Revised: 10/06/2012] [Accepted: 11/12/2012] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The contribution of microglial activation to preoligodendroglial (preOL) damage in the central nervous system (CNS) is considered to be one of the principal causes of periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) pathogenesis. The present study explores the effect of diphenyleneiodonium (DPI), a NADPH oxidase (NOX) inhibitor, on protection of preOLs from bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced microglial toxicity in vivo and in vitro. In vitro, preOLs co-cultured with microglia exhibited increased preOL apoptosis, accompanied by overproduction of superoxide anion (O(2)(-)) and the formation of peroxynitrite (ONOO(-)) after LPS exposure. LPS also significantly up-regulated accumulation of activated microglial NOX subunits p67-phox and gp91-phox in the plasma membrane. Diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) (10μm) was found to significantly attenuate up-regulation of this NOX activity. In vivo, DPI was administered (1mg/kg/day) by subcutaneous injection for 3 days to two-day-old neonatal Sprague-Dawley rats subjected to intracerebral injection of LPS. Treatment with DPI within 24h of LPS injection significantly ameliorated white matter injury, decreasing preOL loss, O(2)(-) generation, and ONOO(-) formation, and inhibiting p67-phox, gp91-phox synthesis and p67phox membrane translocation in microglia. These results indicated that LPS-induced preOL apoptosis may have been mediated by microglia-derived ONOO(-). DPI prevented this LPS-induced brain injury, most likely by inhibiting ONOO(-) formation via NOX, thereby preventing preOL loss and immature white matter injury.
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- Ya-Fang He
- Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research, Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Kongjiang Road 1665, Shanghai 200092, China.
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Goswami C. TRPV1-tubulin complex: involvement of membrane tubulin in the regulation of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. J Neurochem 2012; 123:1-13. [PMID: 22845740 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2012.07892.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2012] [Revised: 07/16/2012] [Accepted: 07/19/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Existence of microtubule cytoskeleton at the membrane and submembranous regions, referred as 'membrane tubulin' has remained controversial for a long time. Since we reported physical and functional interaction of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Sub Type 1 (TRPV1) with microtubules and linked the importance of TRPV1-tubulin complex in the context of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, a few more reports have characterized this interaction in in vitro and in in vivo condition. However, the cross-talk between TRPs with microtubule cytoskeleton, and the complex feedback regulations are not well understood. Sequence analysis suggests that other than TRPV1, few TRPs can potentially interact with microtubules. The microtubule interaction with TRPs has evolutionary origin and has a functional significance. Biochemical evidence, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer analysis along with correlation spectroscopy and fluorescence anisotropy measurements have confirmed that TRPV1 interacts with microtubules in live cell and this interaction has regulatory roles. Apart from the transport of TRPs and maintaining the cellular structure, microtubules regulate signaling and functionality of TRPs at the single channel level. Thus, TRPV1-tubulin interaction sets a stage where concept and parameters of 'membrane tubulin' can be tested in more details. In this review, I critically analyze the advancements made in biochemical, pharmacological, behavioral as well as cell-biological observations and summarize the limitations that need to be overcome in the future.
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- Chandan Goswami
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.
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Goswami C, Goswami L. Filamentous microtubules in the neuronal spinous process and the role of microtubule regulatory drugs in neuropathic pain. Neurochem Int 2010; 57:497-503. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2010.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2010] [Revised: 05/28/2010] [Accepted: 06/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Wolff J. Plasma membrane tubulin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2009; 1788:1415-33. [PMID: 19328773 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2009] [Revised: 03/13/2009] [Accepted: 03/19/2009] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The association of tubulin with the plasma membrane comprises multiple levels of penetration into the bilayer: from integral membrane protein, to attachment via palmitoylation, to surface binding, and to microtubules attached by linker proteins to proteins in the membrane. Here we discuss the soundness and weaknesses of the chemical and biochemical evidence marshaled to support these associations, as well as the mechanisms by which tubulin or microtubules may regulate functions at the plasma membrane.
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- J Wolff
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Arce CA, Casale CH, Barra HS. Submembraneous microtubule cytoskeleton: regulation of ATPases by interaction with acetylated tubulin. FEBS J 2008; 275:4664-74. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06615.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Goswami C, Hucho TB, Hucho F. Identification and characterisation of novel tubulin-binding motifs located within the C-terminus of TRPV1. J Neurochem 2007; 101:250-62. [PMID: 17298389 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.04338.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Previously, we reported that TRPV1, the vanilloid receptor, interacts with soluble alphabeta-tubulin dimers as well as microtubules via its C-terminal cytoplasmic domain. The interacting region of TRPV1, however, has not been defined. We found that the TRPV1 C-terminus preferably interacts with beta-tubulin and less with alpha-tubulin. Using a systematic deletion approach and biotinylated-peptides we identified two tubulin-binding sites present in TRPV1. These two sequence stretches are highly conserved in all known mammalian TRPV1 orthologues and partially conserved in some of the TRPV1 homologues. As these sequence stretches are not similar to any known tubulin-binding sequences, we conclude that TRPV1 interacts with tubulin and microtubule through two novel tubulin-binding motifs.
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- C Goswami
- Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Berlin, Germany
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Knipling L, Wolff J. Direct interaction of Bcl-2 proteins with tubulin. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 341:433-9. [PMID: 16446153 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.12.201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2005] [Accepted: 12/31/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A direct interaction between tubulin and several pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family has been demonstrated by effects on the assembly of microtubules from pure rat brain tubulin. Bcl-2, Bid, and Bad inhibit assembly sub-stoichiometrically, whereas peptides from Bak and Bax promote tubulin polymerization at near stoichiometric concentrations. These opposite effects on microtubule assembly are mutually antagonistic. The BH3 homology domains, common to all members of the family, are involved in the interaction with tubulin but do not themselves affect polymerization. Pelleting experiments with paclitaxel-stabilized microtubules show that Bak is associated with the microtubule pellet, whereas Bid remains primarily with the unpolymerized fraction. These interactions require the presence of the anionic C-termini of alpha- and beta-tubulin as they do not occur with tubulin S in which the C-termini have been removed. While in no way ruling out other pathways, such direct associations are the simplest potential regulatory mechanism for apoptosis resulting from disturbances in microtubule or tubulin function.
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- Leslie Knipling
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Casale CH, Previtali G, Serafino JJ, Arce CA, Barra HS. Regulation of acetylated tubulin/Na+,K+-ATPase interaction by l-glutamate in non-neural cells: involvement of microtubules. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2005; 1721:185-92. [PMID: 15652193 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2004.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2004] [Revised: 10/19/2004] [Accepted: 11/03/2004] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A subpopulation of membrane tubulin consisting mainly of the acetylated isotype is associated with Na+,K+-ATPase and inhibits the enzyme activity. We found recently that treatment of cultured astrocytes with L-glutamate induces dissociation of the acetylated tubulin/Na+,K+-ATPase complex, resulting in increased enzyme activity. We now report occurrence of this phenomenon in non-neural cells. As in the case of astrocytes, the effect of L-glutamate is mediated by its transporters and not by specific receptors. In COS cells, the effect of L-glutamate was reversed by its elimination from culture medium, provided that d-glucose was present. The effect of L-glutamate was not observed when Na+ was replaced by K+ in the incubation medium. The ionophore monensin, in the presence of Na+, had the same effect as L-glutamate. Treatment of cells with taxol prevented the dissociating effect of L-glutamate or monensin. Nocodazole treatment of intact cells or isolated membranes dissociated the acetylated tubulin/Na+,K+-ATPase complex. The dissociating effect of nocodazol does not require Na+. These results indicate a close functional relationship among Na+,K+-ATPase, microtubules, and L-glutamate transporters, and a possible role in cell signaling pathways.
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- César H Casale
- Departamento de Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
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Casale CH, Previtali G, Barra HS. Involvement of acetylated tubulin in the regulation of Na+,K+ -ATPase activity in cultured astrocytes. FEBS Lett 2003; 534:115-8. [PMID: 12527371 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)03802-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The results presented support the view that the modulation of Na(+),K(+)-ATPase activity in living cells involves the association/dissociation of acetylated tubulin with the enzyme. We found that the stimulation of Na(+),K(+)-ATPase activity by L-glutamate correlates with decreased acetylated tubulin quantity associated with the enzyme. The effect of L-glutamate was abolished by the glutamate transporter inhibitor DL-threo-beta-hydroxyaspartate but was not affected by either specific agonists or antagonists. The effect of L-glutamate seems to be mediated by Na(+) entry resulting from glutamate transport, since the Na(+) ionophore monensin produced stimulation of Na(+),K(+)-ATPase activity with concomitant decrease of acetylated tubulin quantity associated with the enzyme.
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- Cesar H Casale
- Departamento de Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
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Zambito AM, Knipling L, Wolff J. Charge variants of tubulin, tubulin S, membrane-bound and palmitoylated tubulin from brain and pheochromocytoma cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2002; 1601:200-7. [PMID: 12445483 DOI: 10.1016/s1570-9639(02)00472-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Isoelectric focusing (IEF) of only approximately 1 microg of rat brain tubulin yields 27-30 distinct charge variants in the pH range of 4.5-5.4 with band separations of 0.01-0.02 pH units as detected by silver staining. Variants can be efficiently transferred from the immobilized gradient strip to polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes for reaction with monoclonal antibodies. C-terminal-directed antibodies to alpha- and beta-tubulin yield patterns similar to N-terminal-directed antibodies. Removal of the acidic C-termini with subtilisin to form tubulin S increases the pI values by approximately 1 pH unit, leads to a loss in the isoelectric distinction between the alpha- and beta-tubulin variants seen by N-terminal-directed antibodies, and abolishes reactions with all beta-variants and all but three alpha variants by C-terminal-directed antibodies (TU-04 and TU-14). Many, but not all, of the variants are substrates for autopalmitoylation of rat brain tubulin. The distribution of isoelectric variants differs between cytoplasm and membrane fractions from PC12 pheochromocytoma cells. A potential role for different variants is suggested.
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- Anna Maria Zambito
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, NIDDK, NIH, Building 8, Room 2A23, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Bifulco M, Laezza C, Stingo S, Wolff J. 2',3'-Cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase: a membrane-bound, microtubule-associated protein and membrane anchor for tubulin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:1807-12. [PMID: 11842207 PMCID: PMC122275 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.042678799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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2',3'-Cyclic nucleotide-3'-phosphodiesterase (CNP) is firmly associated with tubulin from brain tissue and FRTL-5 thyroid cells as demonstrated by copolymerization with microtubules through several warm/cold cycles, the presence of CNP activity in purified tubulin preparations, and identical behavior during various extraction procedures. CNP acts as a microtubule-associated protein in promoting microtubule assembly at low mole ratios. This activity resides in the C terminus of the enzyme, which, by itself, promotes microtubule assembly at higher mole ratios. Phosphorylation of CNP interferes with its assembly-promoting activity, as does deletion of the C terminus, which leads to abnormal microtubule distribution in the cell. Submembranous colocalization of the proteins and CNP-dependent microtubule organization suggest that CNP is a membrane-bound microtubule-associated protein that can link tubulin to membranes and may regulate cytoplasmic microtubule distribution.
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- Maurizio Bifulco
- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Salerno, Italy.
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PC12 pheochromocytoma cells incorporate [(3)H]palmitic acid into tubulin in a time- and cell-density-dependent manner. The plasma membrane-enriched fraction contains most of the radioactivity of the membrane pellet. While palmitoylated tubulin is found in both the cytoplasm and particulate fraction, the bulk of [(3)H]palmitic acid bound to tubulin is present in the crude membrane pellet and the tubulin extracted from the plasma membrane is more heavily palmitoylated than that extracted from endoplasmic reticulum. Detergent-extracted tubulin from plasma membrane is, to a large extent, polymerization competent; a substantial fraction, increasing as a function of labeling time, is not hydroxylamine-labile. The requirement for detergent extraction, the accompanying changes in tubulin properties and the present findings of preferential incorporation of labeled tubulin into plasma membranes, make it clear that direct incorporation of tubulin into the plasma membrane can occur.
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- A M Zambito
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, USA.
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Pure rat brain tubulin is readily palmitoylated in vitro using [3H]palmitoyl CoA but no added enzymes. A maximum of approximately six palmitic acids are added per dimer in 2-3 h at 36-37 degrees C under native conditions. Both alpha and beta tubulin are labeled, and 63-73% of the label was hydroxylamine-labile, presumed thioesters. Labeling increases with increasing pH and temperature, and with low concentrations of guanidine HCl or KCl (but not with urea) to a maximum of approximately 13 palmitates/dimer. High SDS and guanidine HCl concentrations are inhibitory. At no time could all 20 cysteine residues of the dimer be palmitoylated. Polymerization to microtubules, or use of tubulin S, markedly decreases the accessibility of the palmitoylation sites. Palmitoylation increases the electrophoretic mobility of a portion of alpha tubulin toward the beta band. Palmitoylated tubulin binds a colchicine analogue normally, but during three warm/cold polymerization/depolymerization cycles there is a progressive loss of palmitoylated tubulin, indicating decreased polymerization competence. We postulate that local electrostatic factors are major regulators of reactivity of tubulin cysteine residues toward palmitoyl CoA, and that the negative charges surrounding a number of the cysteines are sensitive to negative charges on palmitoyl CoA.
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- J Wolff
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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van Rossum D, Kuhse J, Betz H. Dynamic interaction between soluble tubulin and C-terminal domains of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunits. J Neurochem 1999; 72:962-73. [PMID: 10037467 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.0720962.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The cytoplasmic C-terminal domains (CTs) of the NR1 and NR2 subunits of the NMDA receptor have been implicated in its anchoring to the subsynaptic cytoskeleton. Here, we used affinity chromatography with glutathione S-transferase-NR1-CT and -NR2B-CT fusion proteins to identify novel binding partner(s) of these NMDA receptor subunits. Upon incubation with rat brain cytosolic protein fraction, both NR1-CT and NR2B-CT, but not glutathione S-transferase, specifically bound tubulin. The respective fusion proteins also bound tubulin purified from brain, suggesting a direct interaction between the two binding partners. In tubulin polymerization assays, NR1-CT and NR2B-CT significantly decreased the rate of microtubule formation without destabilizing preformed microtubules. Moreover, only minor fractions of either fusion protein coprecipitated with the newly formed microtubules. Consistent with these findings, ultrastructural analysis of the newly formed microtubules revealed a limited association only with the CTs of the NR1 and NR2B. These data suggest a direct interaction of the NMDA receptor channel subunit CTs and tubulin dimers or soluble forms of tubulin. The efficient modulation of microtubule dynamics by the NR1 and NR2 cytoplasmic domains suggests a functional interaction of the receptor and the subsynaptic cytoskeletal network that may play a role during morphological adaptations, as observed during synaptogenesis and in adult CNS plasticity.
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- D van Rossum
- Department of Neurochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Alonso AC, Nuñez-Fernandez M, Beltramo DM, Casale CH, Barra HS. Na+,K+-ATPase was found to be the membrane component responsible for the hydrophobic behavior of the brain membrane tubulin. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 253:824-7. [PMID: 9918812 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have previously described that the tubulin isolated from brain membranes as a hydrophobic compound by partitioning into Triton X-114 is a peripheral membrane protein [corrected]. The hydrophobic behavior of this tubulin is due to its interaction with membrane protein(s) and the interaction occurs principally with the acetylated tubulin isotype. In the present work we identified the membrane protein that interacts with tubulin as the Na+,K+-ATPase alpha subunit by amino acid sequencing. Using purified brain Na+,K+-ATPase we were able to isolate part of the total hydrophilic tubulin as a hydrophobic compound which contains a high proportion of the acetylated tubulin isotype.
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- A C Alonso
- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba, UNC-CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
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Isenberg G, Niggli V. Interaction of cytoskeletal proteins with membrane lipids. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1997; 178:73-125. [PMID: 9348669 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62136-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Rapid and significant progress has been made in understanding lipid/protein interactions involving cytoskeletal components and the plasma membrane. Covalent and noncovalent lipid modifications of cytoskeletal proteins mediate their interaction with lipid bilayers. The application of biophysical techniques such as differential scanning colorimetry, neutron reflection, electron spin resonance, CD spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and hydrophobic photolabeling, allow various folding stages of proteins during electrostatic adsorption and hydrophobic insertion into lipid bilayers to be analyzed. Reconstitution of proteins into planar lipid films and liposomes help to understand the architecture of biological interfaces. During signaling events at plasma membrane interfaces, lipids are important for the regulation of catalytic protein functions. Protein/lipid interactions occur selectively and with a high degree of specificity and thus have to be considered as physiologically relevant processes with gaining impact on cell functions.
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- G Isenberg
- Biophysics Department, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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Ludueña RF. Multiple forms of tubulin: different gene products and covalent modifications. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1997; 178:207-75. [PMID: 9348671 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62138-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 428] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Tubulin, the subunit protein of microtubules, is an alpha/beta heterodimer. In many organisms, both alpha and beta exist in numerous isotypic forms encoded by different genes. In addition, both alpha and beta undergo a variety of posttranslational covalent modifications, including acetylation, phosphorylation, detyrosylation, polyglutamylation, and polyglycylation. In this review the distribution and possible functional significance of the various forms of tubulin are discussed. In analyzing the differences among tubulin isotypes encoded by different genes, some appear to have no functional significance, some increase the overall adaptability of the organism to environmental challenges, and some appear to perform specific functions including formation of particular organelles and interactions with specific proteins. Purified isotypes also display different properties in vitro. Although the significance of all the covalent modification of tubulin is not fully understood, some of them may influence the stability of modified microtubules in vivo as well as interactions with certain proteins and may help to determine the functional role of microtubules in the cell. The review also discusses isotypes of gamma-tubulin and puts various forms of tubulin in an evolutionary context.
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- R F Ludueña
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78284, USA
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Tubulin is a very water soluble protein, yet a significant portion is firmly associated with cell membranes. Because recent work has shown that palmitoylation is a dynamic process that can alter the targeting of proteins to membranes, we tested whether or not tubulin could be palmitoylated to account for its membrane location. Tubulin acylation was measured by incorporation of [3H]palmitate into PC12 cells in culture. We found palmitoylated tubulin in both cell pellet and cytosol with a higher concentration in the former. EGF-stimulated PC12 cells incorporated the same amount of palmitate per unit protein but the proportion in the membrane fraction was enhanced. More palmitate of the pellet was found in alpha than beta tubulin; EGF stimulation primarily increased palmitate in beta tubulin. In addition we found that palmitic acid was present both as thioesters and as oxyesters. We suggest that palmitoylation may contribute to the membrane localization of tubulin and can be regulated by growth factors.
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- A M Zambito
- Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Laezza C, Wolff J, Bifulco M. Identification of a 48-kDa prenylated protein that associates with microtubules as 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase in FRTL-5 cells. FEBS Lett 1997; 413:260-4. [PMID: 9280293 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00924-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In an effort to study the nature of tubulin attachment to membranes, we have previously observed that after blocking prenylation in FRTL-5 thyroid cells, the microtubules become disconnected from the plasma membrane region [Bifulco M. et al. (1983) J. Cell. Physiol. 155, 340-348]. In this study we show that several [3H]mevalonate labeled proteins in FRTL-5 cells associate with membrane and cytoskeleton and, among these, we describe the presence of a 48-kDa prenylated protein, identified by immunoprecipitation as 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase (CNP), that associates with microtubules. This latter association persists through several polymerization/depolymerization cycles, whereas other prenylated proteins are lost. It is suggested that CNP can be a novel microtubule-associated protein (MAP) and a promising candidate as a membrane anchor for microtubules.
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- C Laezza
- CEOS/CNR and Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare L. Califano, Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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Sackett DL. Structure and function in the tubulin dimer and the role of the acidic carboxyl terminus. Subcell Biochem 1995; 24:255-302. [PMID: 7900178 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1727-0_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- D L Sackett
- Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Beltramo DM, Nuñez M, Alonso AD, Barra HS. The relationship of hydrophobic tubulin with membranes in neural tissue. Mol Cell Biochem 1994; 141:57-63. [PMID: 7877609 DOI: 10.1007/bf00935591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Brain membrane preparations contain tubulin that can be extracted with Triton X-114. After the extract is allowed to partition, 8% of the total brain tubulin is isolated as a hydrophobic compound in the detergent-rich phase. Cytosolic tubulin does not show this hydrophobic behaviour since it is recovered in the aqueous phase. Membrane tubulin can be released by 0.1 M Na2 CO3 treatment at pH > or = 11.5 in such a way that the hydrophobic tubulin is converted into the hydrophilic form. These results suggest that tubulin exists associated with some membrane component that confers the hydrophobic behaviour to tubulin. If the tissue is homogenized in microtubule-stabilizing buffer containing Triton X-100, the hydrophobic tubulin is isolated from the microtubule fraction. This result indicates that the hydrophobic tubulin isolated from membrane preparations belongs to microtubules that in vivo are associated to membranes. Therefore, hydrophobic tubulin (tubulin-membrane component complex) can be obtained from membranes or from microtubules depending on the conditions of brain homogenization.
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- D M Beltramo
- Centro de Investigaciones en Quimica Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC), Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
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Chaudhury S, Das S, Banerjee SK, Sarkar PK. Identification and characterization of a tubulin binding protein in rat brain plasma membrane. Neurochem Int 1994; 24:289-99. [PMID: 8025537 DOI: 10.1016/0197-0186(94)90087-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Studies on the interaction of FITC-tubulin and 125I-tubulin with isolated plasma membrane of neural cells and with primary cultures of neuronal (N) and glial (G) cells of rat brain demonstrate the presence of specific, saturable, high affinity tubulin binding sites in these cells. The positive fluorescence of live unfixed primary cultures of N and G cells following incubation with FITC-tubulin indicate that the tubulin binding sites are located on the outer side of the plasma membrane. Such fluorescence was not observed with FITC-BSA, FITC-conalbumin or freshly dissociated cells from rat tissues or established cell lines. Binding of FITC-tubulin or 125I-tubulin is competed only by tubulin and not by other proteins. Scatchard analysis of the binding of 125I-tubulin to purified plasma membrane indicates very high affinity (Kd = 85 nM) with a Bmax of 7.4 pmol/mg protein. The putative tubulin receptor was partially purified by affinity chromatography on tubulin-sepharose column. Immunoprecipitation of the solubilized tubulin-receptor complex followed by SDS-PAGE analysis and autoradiography, revealed the presence of two components of molecular weights 70 and 45 kDa respectively, presumably representing the two nonidentical subunits of the putative receptor. In conjunction with several recent reports indicating the secretion of high molecular weight proteins from cultured neural cells and the ability of tubulin to modulate adenyl cyclase in synaptic membranes these findings suggest that the binding of exogenous tubulin to sites external to the plasma membrane may be involved in signal transduction.
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- S Chaudhury
- Department of Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta
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De A, Das S, Chaudhury S, Sarkar PK. Thyroidal stimulation of tubulin and actin in rat brain cytoskeleton. Int J Dev Neurosci 1994; 12:49-56. [PMID: 8010159 DOI: 10.1016/0736-5748(94)90095-7] [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: 01/28/2023] Open
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In cultures of neonatal rat brain cells, labeled with 35S-methionine in the presence or absence of triiodothyronine (T3), the hormone promoted a significant enhancement of labeled tubulin and actin in the insoluble fraction (30,000 g pellet) of cell homogenate. To identify the specific sub-cellular fraction associated with this induction, organ cultures of 1 day rat cerebra were labelled with 35S-methionine in the presence and absence of T3 and the insoluble fraction (30,000 g pellet) was subfractionated into mitochondria, plasma membrane and cytoskeleton. Analysis of the labeled proteins by SDS-PAGE, autoradiography and densitometry revealed a T3-induced increase of 50-80% for both tubulin and actin, only in the cytoskeleton fraction without any significant effect on the other fractions. Similar results were obtained when plasma membrane or cytoskeleton were isolated directly from labeled cerebrum by conventional methods instead of fractionating from the 30,000 g pellet. Analysis of relative stimulation of labeled tubulin and actin by T3 in cytoskeleton fraction derived from primary cultures of neuronal (N) and glial (G) cells labeled with 35-methionine show that the stimulatory effect is predominantly on the N cells. Studies on the kinetics of induction of labeled tubulin and actin by T3 in the cytoskeleton fraction prepared from cerebra labeled with 35S-methionine for 2, 8 and 18 hrs revealed no significant difference at 2 hrs; at 8 hrs, an increased incorporation into both tubulin and actin was reproducibly seen in the controls relative to T3-treated samples.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- A De
- Division of Neurobiology, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta
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Sackett DL. Podophyllotoxin, steganacin and combretastatin: natural products that bind at the colchicine site of tubulin. Pharmacol Ther 1993; 59:163-228. [PMID: 8278462 DOI: 10.1016/0163-7258(93)90044-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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A large number of antimicrotubule agents are known that bind to tubulin in vitro and disrupt microtubule assembly in vitro and in vivo. Many of these agents bind to the same site on the tubulin molecule, as does colchicine. Of these, the natural products podophyllotoxin, steganacin and combretastatin are the subjects of this review. For each of these, the chemistry and biochemistry are described. Particular attention is given to stereochemical considerations. Biosynthetic pathways for podophyllotoxin and congeners are surveyed. The binding to tubulin and the effects on microtubule assembly and disassembly are described and compared. In addition, structural features important to binding are examined using available analogs. Several features significant for tubulin interaction are common to these compounds and to colchicine. These are described and the implications for tubulin structure are discussed. The manifold results of applying these agents to biological systems are reviewed. These actions include effects that are clearly microtubule mediated and others in which the microtubule role is less obvious. Activity of some of these compounds due to inhibition of DNA topoisomerase is discussed. The range of species in which these compounds occur is examined and in the case of podophyllotoxin is found to be quite broad. In addition, the range of species that are sensitive to the effects of these compounds is discussed.
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- D L Sackett
- Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Comparison of the beta-tubulin sequences with the equilibrium colchicine Ka and the Ki for inhibition by podophyllotoxin suggests that residue beta:316 is directly involved in binding the common trimethoxyphenyl-(or A-) ring. By contrast, the analysis indicates that the local hydrophobicity affects the rate of one of the two conformational changes associated with colchicine binding but does not determine the affinity of the colchicine-binding site.
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- R G Burns
- Biophysics Section, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
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De A, Chaudhury S, Sarkar PK. Thyroidal stimulation of tubulin and actin in primary cultures of neuronal and glial cells of rat brain. Int J Dev Neurosci 1991; 9:381-90. [PMID: 1950652 DOI: 10.1016/0736-5748(91)90060-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The influence of triiodothyronine (T3) on the level of tubulin and other proteins in primary cultures of neuronal (N) and glial (G) cells from rat brain has been investigated. Quantitation of tubulin by [3H]colchicine binding assay revealed that when cells from 1 day rat brain were cultured for 18 hr with physiological doses (0.5-5 nM) of T3, the hormone elicited 35-40% increase in the soluble (30,000 g supernatant) tubulin content of G cells only. This stimulation was age-dependent and occurred neonatally at a time corresponding to the onset of synaptogenesis. In mouse and chick brain also, [3H]colchicine binding assay showed a similar selective stimulation of the soluble tubulin content of G cells by T3 with virtually no effect on N cells. However, SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the total proteins in the 30,000 g supernatants from N and C cells of rat brain, labeled for 18 hr with [14C]leucine in the presence of T3, revealed that T3 elicited 2-3-fold enhancement of radiolabeled tubulin in the N cells which is relatively greater than the 1.5-fold increase seen in the G cells. Analysis of the autoradiograms of these labeled proteins also revealed that in addition to tubulin, T3 stimulated the accumulation of radiolabeled actin by 1.5- and 2-fold in N cells and G cells respectively. Similar electrophoretic analysis of the solubilized labeled proteins in the 30,000 g pellets from N and G cells indicated that the failure to detect the stimulation of tubulin in the 30,000 g supernatants from N cells by [3H]colchicine binding assay could be at least partly due to rapid translocation of the dimeric soluble tubulin into insoluble membrane fractions or due to presence of higher oligomeric forms of tubulin which are insensitive to [3H]colchicine binding assay.
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- A De
- Department of Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta
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Sackett D, Knutson J, Wolff J. Hydrophobic surfaces of tubulin probed by time-resolved and steady-state fluorescence of nile red. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)77201-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Ravindra R, Aronstam RS. Influence of anti-tubulin antibodies on muscarinic receptor modulation of G protein GTPase activity in rat striatum. Biochem Pharmacol 1990; 40:457-63. [PMID: 2166514 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(90)90543-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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To understand the role of tubulin, an integral component of neural membranes, in signal transduction processes, the influence of anti-tubulin antibodies on the low Km GTPase activity associated with transducer G proteins was examined in rat striatum. Membranes were prepared from striatum by conventional procedures, and the low Km GTPase activity (EC 3.6.1.-) was determined using [gamma-32P]GTP at 37 degrees in an ATP-regenerating buffer containing 0.2 to 2.0 microM unlabeled GTP. GTPase activity was linear for up to 30 min and was directly proportional to protein concentration. Polyclonal anti-tubulin antibodies, anti-alpha-tubulin antibodies, and anti-beta-tubulin antibodies (10 micrograms) stimulated G protein GTPase activity. Anti-beta-tubulin antibody (10 micrograms) stimulated GTPase activity by about 60% at each time point, while 10 micrograms of either anti-alpha-tubulin or polyclonal anti-tubulin antibodies stimulated GTPase activity by only 20-30% at each time point. The Vmax/Km ratio, an index of the enzyme-substrate interaction, increased by only 26% with the anti-alpha-tubulin antibody and by 52% with anti-beta-tubulin antibody; polyclonal anti-tubulin antibodies did not affect this ratio. GTPase activity was stimulated by acetylcholine in an atropine-sensitive manner. At 100 microM, acetylcholine stimulated GTPase activity by about 50%. Polyclonal anti-tubulin, anti-alpha-tubulin, or anti-beta-tubulin antibodies (10 micrograms) potentiated acetylcholine stimulation of GTPase activity. Two possible mechanisms by which anti-tubulin antibodies could stimulate low Km GTPase activity and potentiate the stimulatory effects of acetylcholine are: (1) by inhibiting GTP binding to beta-tubulin, and (2) by eliminating a chronic inhibitory effect of tubulin on G protein or receptor-G protein interaction.
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- R Ravindra
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912
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Kurihara H, Uchida K, Fujita H. Distribution of microtubules and microfilaments in thyroid follicular epithelial cells of normal, TSH-treated, aged, and hypophysectomized rats. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1990; 93:335-45. [PMID: 2323950 DOI: 10.1007/bf00315848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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We investigated the distribution of microtubules and microfilaments in rat thyroid follicular epithelial cells by applying an immunofluorescence technique with monoclonal antibodies against tubulin and by staining sections with rhodamine-phalloidin. In normal thyroid cells, microtubules run longitudinally from the apical region to the basal region intersecting with each other. In addition, intense labelling with tubulin antibodies was observed in the apical part of the cell. The ultrastructural examinations showed that microtubules often run along the apical plasma membrane. Dot-like labelling with anti-tubulin antibodies was often observed in the perinuclear space, but not microtubules were recognized in the nucleus. Microfilaments bound to rhodamine-phalloidin were distributed mainly beneath the apical plasma membrane, and the portion along the basolateral membrane was scarcely positive. The apical pole of the follicle cell was also decorated by anti-microtubule-associated protein-2 (MAP-2). After TSH stimulation, the intensity of immunocytochemical staining against tubulin was remarkably increased in the cytoplasm. Simultaneously, at the apical region, the staining intensity of rhodamine-phalloidin was increased. Microtubules and microfilaments appeared in the pseudopods after TSH injection. In hypophysectomized or aged rats, thyroid follicular epithelial cells decreased in height, and both immunofluorescent labelling against tubulin and rhodamine-phalloidin labelling were markedly decreased. These results indicate that the distribution and polymerization of microtubules and microfilaments in thyroid follicular epithelial cells vary with the functional stage.
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- H Kurihara
- Shionogi Research Laboratories, Osaka, Japan
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Russell GJ, Lacey E. Colchicine binding in the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 993:233-9. [PMID: 2597695 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(89)90170-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The [3H]colchicine-binding activity of a crude supernatant of the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans was resolved into a non-saturable component and a tubulin-specific component after partial purification of tubulin by polylysine affinity chromatography. The two fractions displayed opposing thermal dependencies of [3H]colchicine binding, with non-saturable binding increasing, and tubulin binding decreasing, at 4 degrees C. Binding of [3H]colchicine to C.elegans tubulin at 37 degrees C is a pseudo-first-order rate process with a long equilibration time. The affinity of C. elegans tubulin for [3H]colchicine is relatively low (Ka = 1.7 x 10(5) M(-1)) and is characteristic of the colchicine binding affinities observed for tubulins derived from parasitic nematodes. [3H]Colchicine binding to C. elegans tubulin was inhibited by unlabelled colchicine, podophyllotoxin and mebendazole, and was enhanced by vinblastine. The inhibition of [3H]colchicine binding by mebendazole was 10-fold greater for C. elegans tubulin than for ovine brain tubulin. The inhibition of [3H]colchicine binding to C. elegans tubulin by mebendazole is consistent with the recognised anthelmintic action of the benzimidazole carbamates. These data indicate that C. elegans is a useful model for examining the interactions between microtubule inhibitors and the colchicine binding site of nematode tubulin.
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- G J Russell
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Sydney, Australia
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Carraway KL, Carraway CA. Membrane-cytoskeleton interactions in animal cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 988:147-71. [PMID: 2524216 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(89)90017-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- K L Carraway
- Department of Anatomy, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101
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Goldschmidt RB, Steward O. Comparison of the neurotoxic effects of colchicine, the vinca alkaloids, and other microtubule poisons. Brain Res 1989; 486:133-40. [PMID: 2720425 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(89)91285-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Previous studies have revealed that colchicine is selectively toxic to certain neuronal populations in the CNS, particularly granule cells of the dentate gyrus. The present study evaluates whether other microtubule poisons exhibit similar neurotoxic effects. Equimolar solutions of colchicine, colcemid, podophyllotoxin, vinblastine, vincristine and lumicolchine, the non-binding analog of colchicine, were injected into the dentate gyrus. Neurotoxicity was evaluated histologically. As previously reported, colchicine selectively destroyed dentate granule cells with minimal damage to other neurons including hippocampal pyramidal cells. Vincristine was very toxic and was not selective for granule cells. Vinblastine was relatively selective in destroying granule cells, but was not as potent as colchine. Colcemid and podophyllotoxin had minimal toxic effects. Lumicolchine injections caused no more damage than injections of vehicle. This ordering appears to correlate with the reversibility of binding tubulin.
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- R B Goldschmidt
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908
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Gupta RS, Dudani AK. Mechanism of action of antimitotic drugs: a new hypothesis based on the role of cellular calcium. Med Hypotheses 1989; 28:57-69. [PMID: 2648125 DOI: 10.1016/0306-9877(89)90154-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The antimitotic drugs such as colchicine, podophyllotoxin, etc. are currently believed to exert their cytotoxic and antimitotic effects due to binding of the drug-tubulin complex to the growing ends of microtubules (MTs), leading to an "end-capping or poisoning" effect. However, to account for a number of apparently puzzling observations regarding antimitotic drugs (which cannot be readily explained by the current model) and the mitotic process, a new hypothesis regarding the mechanism of action of antimitotic drugs is proposed. The key observations in this context are as follows: (i) The antimitotic drugs bind specifically to free tubulin. (ii) Cell growth by these drugs is specifically blocked in metaphase, and interphase microtubules do not seem to play any role in the drugs' cytotoxic or antimitotic effects. (iii) Tubulin is specifically associated with a number of membranous organelles (viz. mitochondria, plasma membranes, endoplasmic reticulum) which are responsible for intracellular Ca+2 homeostasis. (iv) Fluorescent derivatives of antimitotic drugs also bind to the above membranous organelles and not to MTs. (v) Ca+2 plays a central role in the control of MT assembly/disassembly in vivo and a Ca+2 pulse is necessary for the metaphase to anaphase transition. (vi) Cellular mutants which exhibit specific resistance to various antimitotic drugs are altered in either tubulin(s) or mitochondrial matrix proteins. To account for these observations, it is suggested that free tubulin present in the above membranous organelles serves as the cellular receptor for these drugs and this binding interferes with the Ca+2 regulatory/signalling mechanism essential for anaphase chromosome movement. The effect of these drugs on interphase MTs appears to be a secondary consequence of this alteration in Ca+2 regulation. The observed changes in mitochondrial matrix proteins in many of the mutants resistant to antimitotic drugs further indicate that mitochondria should play an important role in Ca+2 homeostasis, as it relates to mitosis. The possible mechanisms by which these drugs may interfere with the Ca+2 regulation and some implications of this hypothesis are discussed.
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- R S Gupta
- Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Tubulin can be posttranslationally modified at the carboxyl terminus of the alpha-subunit by the addition or release of a tyrosine residue. These reactions involve two enzymes, tubulin: tyrosine ligase and tubulin carboxypeptidase. The tyrosine incorporation reaction has been described mainly in nervous tissue but it has also been found in a great variety of tissues and different species. Molecular aspects of the reactions catalyzed by these enzymes are at present well known, especially the reaction carried out by the ligase. Several lines of evidence indicate that assembled tubulin is the preferred substrate of the carboxypeptidase, whereas nonassembled tubulin is preferred by the ligase. Apparently this posttranslational modification does not affect the capacity of tubulin to form microtubules but it generates microtubules with different degrees of tyrosination. Variation in the content of the carboxyterminal tyrosine of alpha-tubulin as well as changes in the activity of the ligase and the carboxypeptidase are manifested during development. Changes in the cellular microtubular network modify the turnover of the carboxyterminal tyrosine of alpha-tubulin. Different subsets of microtubules with different degrees of tyrosination have been detected in interphase cells and during the mitotic cycle. Data from biochemical, immunological, and genetic studies have been compiled in this review; these are presented, with pertinent comments, with the hope of facilitating the comprehension of this particular aspect of the microtubule field.
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- H S Barra
- Centro de Investigaciones en Químíca Biológica de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
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- V Niggli
- Department of Biochemistry, Biocenter of the University of Basel, Switzerland
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Jain MK, Zakim D. The spontaneous incorporation of proteins into preformed bilayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1987; 906:33-68. [PMID: 3032257 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(87)90004-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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May PC, Severson JA, Osterburg HH, Finch CE. Compartmentalization of calmodulin and tubulin in the male C57BL/6J mouse brain: heterogeneity of age changes in calmodulin compartments. Neurobiol Aging 1987; 8:131-7. [PMID: 3587490 DOI: 10.1016/0197-4580(87)90022-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Calmodulin (CaM) and tubulin were analyzed by radioimmunoassay in subcellular fractions prepared from cerebral cortex and striatum of aging male C57BL/6J mice. Three fractions were prepared by a new procedure: cytosol (soluble); EGTA-releasable, membrane-bound; and detergent-extractable (Triton X-100), membrane-bound fractions. CaM concentration in all three fractions prepared from striatum showed small (10-15%, p less than 0.05) decreases with age (3-31 months). Cortical CaM concentrations were less affected by age, and only the EGTA-releasable fraction decreased. To compare functional activity and immunoreactivity of CaM, soluble CaM was also assayed by the activation of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE). The radioimmunoassay and PDE activation assays gave equivalent results, suggesting that no alteration occurred with age in biological activity of CaM, via post-translational modification or other mechanisms. Soluble and particulate tubulin concentration did not change significantly with age in either brain region. The changes observed in striatal CaM, particularly in membrane-bound compartments, could contribute to the age-related decline in mammalian basal ganglial function.
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Andreu JM, Muñoz JA. Interaction of tubulin with octyl glucoside and deoxycholate. 1. Binding and hydrodynamic studies. Biochemistry 1986; 25:5220-30. [PMID: 3768342 DOI: 10.1021/bi00366a036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Tubulin purified from calf brain cytoplasm, normally a compact water-soluble dimer, is able to interact with the mild detergents octyl glucoside (a minimum of 60 detergent molecules) and deoxycholate (95 +/- 8 molecules). Binding is cooperative and approaches saturation below the critical micelle concentration of the amphiphiles. Binding is accompanied by a quenching of the intrinsic protein fluorescence, but no spectral shape changes indicating denaturation such as in the case of sodium dodecyl sulfate are observed. Glycerol, which is known to be preferentially excluded from the tubulin domain and to favor the folded and associated forms of this protein, inhibits the binding of the mild detergents. Octyl glucoside induces a rapidly equilibrating tubulin self-association reaction characterized by a bimodal sedimentation velocity profile with boundaries at approximately 5 and 12 S. Full dissociation of this detergent restores the normal sedimentation behavior to 90% of the protein. Binding of deoxycholate slows the sedimentation velocity of tubulin from s(0)20,w = 5.6 +/- 0.2 S to s(0)20,w = 4.8 +/- 0.3 S. Measurements of the molecular weight of the tubulin-deoxycholate complex indicate an increase from 100,000 to 143,000 +/- 5,000. The diffusion rate consistently decreases from (5.3 +/- 0.5) X 10(-7) to (3.8 +/- 0.2) X 10(-7) cm2 S-1. This is most simply interpreted as an expansion of the undissociated tubulin dimer upon detergent binding (a change in the frictional ratio, f/f min, from 1.35 to 1.86). It is concluded that tubulin shows a reversible transition between the water-soluble state and amphipathic detergent-bound forms which constitute a model system of tubulin-membrane interactions.
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S-100 is a group of closely related, small, acidic Ca2+-binding proteins (S-100a0, S-100a and S-100b, which are alpha alpha, alpha beta, and beta beta in composition, respectively). S-100 is structurally related to calmodulin and other Ca2+-binding proteins. S-100 is abundant in the brain and is contained in well defined cell types of both neuroectodermal and non-neuroectodermal origin, as well as in their neoplastic counterparts. In the mammalian brain, S-100a and S-100b are confined to glial cells, while S-100a0 is neuronal in localization. Single S-100 isoforms bind Ca2+ with nearly the same affinity. K+ antagonizes the binding of Ca2+ to high affinity sites on S-100. S-100 binds Zn2+ with high affinity. S-100 is found in a soluble and a membrane-bound form and has the ability to interact with artificial and natural membranes. S-100 has no enzymatic activity. S-100 has been involved in several activities including memory processes, regulation of diffusion of monovalent cations across membranes, modulation of the physical state of membranes, regulation of the phosphorylation of several proteins, control of the assembly-disassembly of microtubules. Some of these effects are strictly Ca2+-dependent, while other are not. S-100 is being secreted or released to the extracellular space. In some cases, this event is hormonally regulated. Several S-100 binding proteins are being described.
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Lampidis TJ, Trevorrow KW, Rubin RW. Effects of colchicine on cardiac cell function indicate possible role for membrane surface tubulin. Exp Cell Res 1986; 164:463-70. [PMID: 3709680 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(86)90044-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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 the tubulin-binding drug colchicine on cultured neonate cardiac cell function were investigated. Application of low doses of colchicine (but not lumicolchicine) caused an early reversible increase in beating rate with a concomitant decrease in amplitude. Treatment of the cells with trypsin at a dose that removes surface tubulin but does not inhibit spontaneous beating, diminished the colchicine effect. Surface radio-iodination of the live cultures followed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and radioautography revealed that two spots were heavily labeled. These spots co-migrated with purified brain tubulin. Fibroblasts derived from the cardiac cultures did not label over the tubulin spots. Trypsin treatment removed the presumptive tubulin from the radioautographs but only removed the most basic portion of the alpha-tubulin spot from the stained gel. These results are consistent with a surface membrane role for an iso-form of tubulin in neonate cardiac cells.
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Donato R, Prestagiovanni B, Zelano G. Identity between cytoplasmic and membrane-bound S-100 proteins purified from bovine and rat brain. J Neurochem 1986; 46:1333-7. [PMID: 3514791 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1986.tb01743.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Cytoplasmic and membrane-bound S-100 proteins were purified to homogeneity from bovine and rat brain. Cytoplasmic and membrane-bound S-100 from single species are identical by immunological, electrophoretic, spectrophotometric, and functional criteria. Cytoplasmic and membrane-bound S-100 from bovine brain consists of nearly equal amounts of S-100a and S-100b, whereas cytoplasmic and membrane-bound S-100 from rat brain consists mostly of S-100b. The functional role of membrane-bound S-100 remains to be elucidated.
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Hajós F, Gallatz K. Electron-microscopic demonstration of alpha-tubulin immunoreactivity in astroglia. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1986; 84:275-8. [PMID: 3710833 DOI: 10.1007/bf00495795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Vibratome sections of the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum were immunostained for alpha-tubulin using the TU-Ol monoclonal antibody. In all three regions, electron microscopy of the immunostained preparations revealed--in addition to the previously described reaction of pyramidal apical dendritic microtubules--consistent staining of the ribosomal apparatus of astrocytes.
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Hargreaves AJ, Avila J. Localization and characterization of tubulin-like proteins associated with brain mitochondria: the presence of a membrane-specific isoform. J Neurochem 1985; 45:490-6. [PMID: 4009170 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1985.tb04015.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A mitochondrial fraction, purified from pig brain, was found to contain associated polypeptides with the same electrophoretic migration and isoelectric points as the alpha- and beta-tubulin subunits present in brain microtubules. When analyzed by Western blotting these polypeptides reacted specifically with purified tubulin antibodies. The tubulin-like proteins were then visualized in mitochondrial membranes by protein A-gold complexes after the incubation of purified mitochondria with tubulin antibodies. When membrane and microtubule proteins were compared by isoelectric focussing and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, differences were observed in the patterns of tubulin isoforms. An additional polypeptide, with the electrophoretic migration of beta-tubulin but the isoelectric point of alpha-tubulin, was found to be enriched in the mitochondrial fraction. This peptide had several Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease peptides in common with alpha-tubulin and may result from a posttranslational modification of that subunit.
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Twice-cycled bovine brain or rat brain microtubule protein contains an adenylate cyclase activity that passes 0.2 micron filters, is activated 2-7-fold by 30 microM forskolin, shows modest stimulation by fluoride (especially in the presence of added AI3+), but is virtually insensitive to added guanine nucleotides. The activity is insensitive to various hormones or Ca2+/calmodulin. The adenylate cyclase is active with both Mg2+ and Mn2+ but activity is less in the presence of Mg2+ than with Mn2+. The cyclase is inhibited by agonists of the adenosine P site. It is proposed that the catalytic unit of adenylate cyclase and probably small quantities of the guanine nucleotide regulatory protein, Ns, are cycled along with microtubules.
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Bennett V, Baines AJ, Davis JQ. Ankyrin and synapsin: spectrin-binding proteins associated with brain membranes. J Cell Biochem 1985; 29:157-69. [PMID: 2933418 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240290210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Brain membranes contain an actin-binding protein closely related in structure and function to erythrocyte spectrin. The proteins that attach brain spectrin to membranes are not established, but, by analogy with the erythrocyte membrane, may include ankyrin and protein 4.1. In support of this idea, proteins closely related to ankyrin and 4.1 have been purified from brain and have been demonstrated to associate with brain spectrin. Brain ankyrin binds with high affinity to the spectrin beta subunit at the midregion of spectrin tetramers. Brain ankyrin also has binding sites for the cytoplasmic domain of the erythrocyte anion channel (band 3), as well as for tubulin. Ankyrins from brain and erythrocytes have a similar domain structure with protease-resistant domains of Mr = 72,000 that contain spectrin-binding activity, and domains of Mr = 95,000 (brain ankyrin) or 90,000 (erythrocyte ankyrin) that contain binding sites for both tubulin and the anion channel. Brain ankyrin is present at about 100 pmol/mg membrane protein, or about twice the number of copies of spectrum beta chains. Brain ankyrin thus is present in sufficient amounts to attach spectrin to membranes, and it has the potential to attach microtubules to membranes as well as to interconnect microtubules with spectrin-associated actin filaments. Another spectrin-binding protein has been purified from brain membranes, and this protein cross-reacts with erythrocyte 4.1. Brain 4.1 is identical to the membrane protein synapsin, which is one of the brain's major substrates for cAMP-dependent and Ca/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases with equivalent physical properties, immunological cross-reaction, and peptide maps. Synapsin (4.1) is present at about 60 pmol/mg membrane protein, and thus is a logical candidate to regulate certain protein linkages involving spectrin.
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Brigati C, Sander B. CPH-86, a highly purified podophyllotoxin, efficiently suppresses in vivo and in vitro immune responses. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY 1985; 7:285-302. [PMID: 2932503 DOI: 10.3109/08923978509026477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Podophyllotoxin, a component of the plant resin Podophyllin, has been used as a clinical drug for many years. Recently it has been highly purified under the denomination of CPH-86. We here demonstrate that extremely low doses of the compound efficiently inhibit antibody responses to SRBC and prolong allogeneic skin graft survival in mice. In vitro immune reactions, such as mitogen and alloantigen induced proliferation and development of cytotoxic T cells, are also suppressed in a dose dependent manner. This effect does not seem to be due to direct cellular toxicity or to a shift in the kinetic pattern of the responses.
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