Involvement of tryptophan residues in colchicine binding and the assembly of tubulin |
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Authors: | R B Maccioni N W Seeds |
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Affiliation: | Dept. Biochemistry/Biophysics/Genetics University of Colorado Medical School Denver, CO 80262 USA |
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Abstract: | Chemical modification of tubulin with 2-hydroxy-5-nitrobenzyl bromide, a reagent selective for tryptophan, inhibits tubulin's colchicine binding and in vitro assembly activities. Loss of colchicine binding shows a linear relationship with the modification of tryptophan residues, and is complete when not more than five residues are modified. GTP affords partial protection against this loss of colchicine binding. The in vitro assembly of tubulin is somewhat less sensitive, since microtubules are formed from tubulin dimers possessing 3–4 but not five modified residues. Furthermore, two of the eight tryptophans per dimer are reactive when tubulin is assembled into microtubules. |
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