Differences in paclitaxel and docetaxel interactions with tubulin detected by mutagenesis of yeast tubulin.
Differences in paclitaxel and docetaxel interactions with tubulin detected by mutagenesis of yeast tubulin.
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DOI:
10.1002/cmdc.200800288
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发表时间:
2008-12
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影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Himes, Richard H.
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作者:
Winefield, Robert D.;Entwistle, Ruth A.;Foland, Travis B.;Lushington, Gerald H.;Himes, Richard H.
Paclitaxel and a semi-synthetic analogue docetaxel (Scheme) are two taxane anti-tumor agents that are used against a number of cancers.[1] The taxanes bind to the β-subunit of the dimeric protein α, β-tubulin in microtubules in a 1: 1 molar ratio, resulting in a decrease in the dynamic nature of microtubules leading to mitotic arrest and apoptotic cell death.[2] The taxanes also promote the assembly of tubulin into microtubules.[3] Docetaxel is two to three times as effective as paclitaxel in promoting the assembly of mammalian brain tubulin in vitro and has a binding constant that is greater than that of paclitaxel by the same factor.[4] We have been using site-directed mutagenesis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae β-tubulin to examine the taxane binding site in tubulin. Although wild-type S. cerevisiae tubulin does not bind taxanes, we were able to instill taxane binding by making five mutations in β-tubulin.[5] The rationale for choosing the five sites to mutate was based on the electron crystal structure of the mammalian brain tubulin-paclitaxel complex.[6] This structure indicated that the amino acid side chains, K19, V23, D26, H227 and F270, are important in taxane binding. In S. cerevisiae β-tubulin these sites are occupied by different amino acids, A19, T23, G26, N227, and Y270. When we exchanged the five residues for those that occur in brain β-tubulin, yeast tubulin was able to bind paclitaxel.[5] We are currently in the process of determining the relative importance of each residue to taxane binding by systematically reversing our original mutations. As a screen to measure the effects of the changes, we are using a cell-based assay in which we examine effects of the mutations on cell proliferation. To be able to use a cell-based assay we introduced the mutated β-tubulin gene into a yeast strain that has diminished multidrug transport activity [7] to produce a strain that is sensitive to paclitaxel (AD1-8-tax).[8] In the course of these studies we found interesting differences in the sensitivity of the various strains to paclitaxel and docetaxel.The effect of the two taxanes on the growth of the strains is presented in Table 1. The letters B and Y refer to the five residues found in brain and S. cerevisiae tubulin, respectively. The data show that 25 µM of either taxane completely inhibited growth of the strain with brain β-tubulin residues at the five positions (BBBBB), but had no effect on the strain with yeast residues (YYYYY). When positions 23, 26, and 270 were changed back to the residues in yeast β-tubulin, the strains (BYBBB, BBYBB, BBBBY) were insensitive to both taxanes, indicating the importance of these residues to taxane binding. However, substituting a yeast residue at position 19 (YBBBB) or 227 (BBBYB) did not affect the sensitivity to paclitaxel,
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影响因子:
64.8
作者:
SCHIFF, PB;FANT, J;HORWITZ, SB
通讯作者:
HORWITZ, SB
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0403459101
发表时间:
2004-07-06
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Ganesh, T;Guza, RC;Kingston, DGI
通讯作者:
Kingston, DGI
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.051309398
发表时间:
2001-04-24
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Snyder, JP;Nettles, JH;Nogales, E
通讯作者:
Nogales, E
影响因子:
2.1
作者:
GASTEIGER, J;MARSILI, M
通讯作者:
MARSILI, M
影响因子:
15
作者:
Paik, Younkee;Yang, Chao;Kingston, David G. I.
通讯作者:
Kingston, David G. I.