Charge variants of tubulin,tubulin S,membrane-bound and palmitoylated tubulin from brain and pheochromocytoma cells |
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Authors: | Zambito Anna Maria Knipling Leslie Wolff J |
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Institution: | Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, NIDDK, NIH, Building 8, Room 2A23, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. |
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Abstract: | Isoelectric focusing (IEF) of only approximately 1 microg of rat brain tubulin yields 27-30 distinct charge variants in the pH range of 4.5-5.4 with band separations of 0.01-0.02 pH units as detected by silver staining. Variants can be efficiently transferred from the immobilized gradient strip to polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes for reaction with monoclonal antibodies. C-terminal-directed antibodies to alpha- and beta-tubulin yield patterns similar to N-terminal-directed antibodies. Removal of the acidic C-termini with subtilisin to form tubulin S increases the pI values by approximately 1 pH unit, leads to a loss in the isoelectric distinction between the alpha- and beta-tubulin variants seen by N-terminal-directed antibodies, and abolishes reactions with all beta-variants and all but three alpha variants by C-terminal-directed antibodies (TU-04 and TU-14). Many, but not all, of the variants are substrates for autopalmitoylation of rat brain tubulin. The distribution of isoelectric variants differs between cytoplasm and membrane fractions from PC12 pheochromocytoma cells. A potential role for different variants is suggested. |
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