GTP analogues interact with the tubulin exchangeable site during assembly and upon binding.
GTP analogues interact with the tubulin exchangeable site during assembly and upon binding.
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GTP 类似物在组装过程中和结合后与微管蛋白可交换位点相互作用。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00457a017
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发表时间:
1990
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Himes,RH
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作者:
Mejillano,MR;Barton,JS;Nath,JP;Himes,RH
Revised Manuscript Received September 25, 1989 abstract: The question of whether nonhydrolyzable nucleotide analogues and other nucleoside triphosphates support tubulin assembly was addressed. Tubulin which contained residual GTP at the exchangeable site polymerized in the absence of added GTP inthe presence of DMSO or glycerol. After maximum absorbance was reached, disassembly occurred at a slow rate. When 0.5 mM GMPPCP, GMPPNP, or ATP was included in the assembly reaction, disassembly did not occur, and about 0.1 mol of these nucleotides per mole of tubulin was incorporated into the protein. When 5 mM nucleotide was used or alkaline phosphatase was included in the case of the nonhydrolyzable analogues, a greater amount of assembly occurred and about 0.7-0.8 mol of analogue was incorporated. The products of the assembly reaction were cold-labile mi-crotubules and protofilament ribbons. After cold-depolymerization of the microtubules and ribbons, a second cycle of assembly produced some microtubules, but cold-stable amorphous polymers were the major product. In addition, when GTP at the exchangeable site was first removed by a cycle of assembly, followed by depolymerization, assembly in the presence of GMPPCP, GMPPNP, or ATP produced a mixture of mi-crotubules and cold-stable polymers, both of which contained bound analogue. Incorporation of GMPPCP, GMPPNP, or ATP into polymerized tubulin always occurred atthe expense of GDP at the exchangeable site, the content of which decreased correspondingly. Incubation of tubulin with 5 mM GMPPCP, GMPPNP, or ATP under nonassembly conditions also displaced GDP. Binding of GMPPCP was measured under conditions which produced the maximum removal of GDP and GTP from the exchangeable site, and a of (5.3-7.1) x 104 M'1 was obtained. Studies with other nucleotides showed that assembly in the presence of 5 mM concentrations of ITP, UTP, and CTP led to microtubules and ribbons which did not depolymerize after reachingsteady state. In the case of ITP, IDP was found in the polymerized protein, but no evidence for the incorporation of UTP, CTP, UDP, or CDP was obtained. The stabilization by the pyrimidine nucleotides was due to a low level of nucleoside-diphosphate kinase activity present in the tubulin preparation. From these studies, we conclude that several purine nucleoside triphosphates can bind to the exchangeable nucleotide site and, in the presence of microtubule seeds, tubulin containing these nucleotides participates in the elongation phase of polymerization. In the absence of microtubule seeds, polymerization under the conditions used leads to some microtubules, but the major product is an amorphous cold-stable polymer of tubulin. Tubulin with analogues at the exchangeable site, therefore, appears to have a reduced ability to participate in the nucleation phase of the microtubule polymerization process.