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Microtubule-binding proteins from carrot
Authors:Richard J Cyr  Barry A Palevitz
Institution:(1) Department of Botany, University of Georgia, 30602 Athens, GA, USA
Abstract:Microtubules (MTs) participate in several processes of fundamental importance to growth and development in higher plants, yet little is known about the proteins with which they associate. Information about these molecules is important because they probably play a role in mediating functional and structural differences between various MT arrays. As a first step in gaining insight into this problem, we have isolated, from suspension-cultured cells of carrot (Daucus carota L.), non-tubulin proteins which bind to and affect microtubules (MTs) in vitro. These proteins were isolated using taxol-stabilized neuronal MTs as an affinity substrate. They cause MT bundling at substoichiometric concentrations, support the assembly of tubulin in vitro, and at low concentrations, decorate single MTs in a periodic fashion. The bundled MTs formed in vitro share similarities with those seen in situ in a variety of plant cells, including a center-center spacing of 34 nm, cold stability, resistance to anti-microtubule drugs, and sensitivity to calcium. The bundling activity is specific; other cationic proteins, as well as poly-L-lysine, do not behave in a similar manner. The bundling activity is insensitive to ATP. By assaying bundling activity with dark-field microscopy and employing standard biochemical procedures, a small number of polypeptides involved in the bundling process were identified. Affinity-isolated antibodies to one of these polypeptides (Mr=76000) were found to co-localize with MTs in the cortical array of protoplasts. Our findings are discussed with reference to the importance of these proteins in the cell and to their relationship to microtubule-associated proteins in other eukaryotes.Abbreviations DEAE diethylaminoethyl - MAP(s) microtubule-associated protein(s) - MT(s) microtubule(s) - Mr relative molecular mass - OD optical density - PM 50 mM 1,4-piperazinediethanesulfonic acid (Pipes), pH 6.9, 1 mM magnesium sulphate, 1 mM ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,Nprime,Nprime-tetraacetic acid (EGTA) - SDS-PAGE sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
Keywords:Cytoskeleton  Daucus (microtubules)  Microtubule-associated proteins
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