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Dependency of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPS) for tubulin stability and assembly; use of estramustine phosphate in the study of microtubules (1991)

Fridén, Bo ; Wallin, Margareta

Springer

Molecular and cellular biochemistry 105 (1991), S. 149-158

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ISSN: 1573-4919

Keywords: Microtubules ; tubulin ; microtubule-associated proteins ; estramustine phosphate

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Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine

Notes: Summary Microtubule-associated proteins (MAPS) were separated from tubulin with several different methods. The ability of the isolated MAPs to reinduce assembly of phosphocellulose purified tubulin differed markedly between the different methods. MAPs isolated by addition of 0.35 M NaCl to taxol-stabilized microtubules stimulated tubulin assembly most effectively, while addition of 0.6M NaCl produced MAPs with a substantially lower ability to stimulate tubulin assembly. The second best preparation was achieved with phosphocellulose chromatographic separation of MAPs with 0.6 M NaCl elution. The addition of estramustine phosphate to microtubules reconstituted of MAPS prepared by 0.35 M NaCl or phosphocellulose chromatography, induced less disassembly than for microtubules assembled from unseparated proteins, and was almost without effect on microtubules reconstituted from MAPs prepared by taxol and 0.6 M NaCl. Estramustine phosphate binds to the tubulin binding part of the MAPs, and the results do therefore indicate that the MAPs are altered by the separation methods. Since the MAPs are regarded as highly stable molecules, one probable alteration could be aggregation of the MAPs, as also indicated by the results. The purified tubulin itself seemed not to be affected by the phosphocellulose purification, since the microtubule proteins were unchanged by the low buffer strenght used during the cromatography. However, the assembly competence after a prolonged incubation of the microtubule proteins at 4° C was dependent on intact bindings between the tubulin and MAPs.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00227754

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Differences in the effect of Ca2+ on isolated microtubules from cod and cow brain (1994)

Strömberg, Elisabeth ; Wallin, Margareta

New York, NY : Wiley-Blackwell

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 28 (1994), S. 59-68

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ISSN: 0886-1544

Keywords: cytoskeleton ; paracrystal ; coiled ribbons ; microtubule-associated proteins ; assembly ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology

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Topics: Biology , Medicine

Notes: Isolated microtubules from cod and cow brains were compared with respect to their response to calcium ions. The effect of Ca2+ on cod microtubules was found to be temperature dependent. In contrast to cow microtubules, cod microtubules assembled at 18°C. At this temperature the assembly was inhibited by Ca2+ concentrations of 2 mM and higher. This was also found for cow microtubules at 37°C. However, at 30°C there was no effect of 2 mM Ca2+ of the amount of assembly or disassembly of cod microtubules consisting of only tubulin or of tubulin and microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). The morphology was affected though, since some coiled ribbons formed from tubulin and MAPs. The calcium-binding calmodulin did not alter the effect of calcium on cod microtubules markedly. At higher Ca2+ concentrations (〉4 mM), coiled ribbons were formed from cod tubulin and MAPs, but mainly amorphous aggregates and very few coiled ribbons were formed from cod tubulin alone, indicating that the Ca2+ effect is modulated by cod MAPs. The modulatory effect of cod MAPs was however not species specific, since both cod and cow MAPs had the same effect on cod microtubules, in spite of a different protein composition. A MAP-dependent effect of Ca2+ was also found for cow microtubule proteins. The assembly of pure cow tubulin, as well as that of cow tubulin and MAPs, was inhibited by 2 mM Ca2+. In the presence of 10 and 20 mM Ca2+, pure cow tubulin formed amorphous aggregates, rings, and even paracrystals, while the assembly of cow tubulin and MAPs was inhibited. Our results suggest therefore that the effect of Ca2+ can be moderated by MAPs, but depends on intrinsic properties of the different tubulins. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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