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  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    New York, NY : Wiley-Blackwell
    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 22 (1992), S. 25-37 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: tubulin structure ; microtubule ; antibody ; microtubule poison ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Polyclonal antibodies have been raised against the peptide 28-38 of the β-subunit of the tubulin heterodimer in order to study the accessibility of this region in the tubulin heterodimer and in various tubulin assemblies. These antibodies were specific for all β'-tubulin subunits, except for β-tubulin isotypes, and did not recognize the α-tubulin subunit. The 28-38 region does not play a role in the interaction between the α-and β-subunits since it was accessible to the antibodies on the native heterodimer. The accessibility of the antibodies was not modified by several microtubular poisons. In contrast, in all tubulin assemblies obtained in the presence of microtubule associated proteins, the region 28-38 was not available to the antibodies. These antibodies did not react with microtubules or tubulin spirals assembled either from microtubule proteins or from pure tubulin when these tubulin assemblies were probed in the absence of free tubulin after centrifugation on glass coverslips. In addition, antibodies failed to interact with the microtubule cytoskeleton in cultured Ptk2 cells indicating that the 28-38 region of β-tubulin is also protected in cellular structures. These observations suggest that the 28-38 region of the β-tubulin subunit is either located in a zone of interaction between two successive tubulin dimers within a protofilament or hidden by an allosteric conformational change which occurs during tubulin assembly. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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  • 2
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    Electronic Resource
    New York, NY : Wiley-Blackwell
    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 29 (1994), S. 271-279 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: peptide antibodies ; protein processing ; axonemes ; microtubule associated proteins ; UV photocleavage ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Dyneins are multi-subunit enzymes that transduce chemical energy into the mechanical energy that makes cilia and flagella beat and moves organelles towards the minus end of microtubules. The ATPase activity is borne by heavy chains, and recent molecular analysis indicates that dynein heavy chain genes form an ancient multigene family: the similarity between the same isoform of two distantly related species is greater than that between different isoforms of the same species. We have exploited sequence identities between a Paramecium axonemal dynein heavy chain gene cloned in our laboratory and sequences of dynein heavy chains from other species to prepare antibodies against active-site peptides capable of recognizing dynein heavy chains regardless of species or isoform. One of the antibodies is perfectly specific for the larger product of V1 photolysis (HUV1) and thus incorporates a unique property of the hydrolytic ATP binding site of all known dynein heavy chains, the capacity for photocleavage in the presence of micromolar vanadate. Our characterization of these reagents suggests that they will be useful for biochemical and in situ studies of known dyneins as well as identification of potential new members of the family. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: maytansine ; vinblastine ; diphenylpyridazone ; colchicine ; taxol ; tubulin ; microtubule ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: We have investigated the effects of the microtubule poison rhazinilam on microtubule assembly in vivo and in vitro. In mammalian cells, rhazinilam mimics the effects of taxol and leads to microtubule bundles, multiple asters, and microtubule cold stability. In vitro, rhazinilam protected preassembled microtubules from cold-induced disassembly, but not from calcium ion-induced disassembly. Moreover, both at 0°C and at 37°C, rhazinilam induced the formation of anomalous tubulin assemblies (spirals). This process was prevented by maytansine and vinblastine, but not by colchicine. Preferential saturable and stoichiometric binding of radioactive rhazinilam to tubulin in spirals was observed with a dissociation constant of 5 μM. This binding was abolished in the presence of vinblastine and maytansine. In contrast, specific binding of radioactive rhazinilam to tubulin assembled in microtubules was undetectable. These results demonstrate that rhazinilam alters microtubule stability differently than taxol, and that the overall similar effects of rhazinilam and taxol on the cellular cytoskeleton are the consequence of two distinct mechanisms of action at the molecular level. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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