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SUBMITTER: Byrd CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC21914 | biostudies-literature | 1999 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Byrd C A CA Bornmann W W Erdjument-Bromage H H Tempst P P Pavletich N N Rosen N N Nathan C F CF Ding A A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19990501 10
Taxol, a plant-derived antitumor agent, stabilizes microtubules. Taxol also elicits cell signals in a manner indistinguishable from bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). LPS-like actions of Taxol are controlled by the lps gene and are independent of binding to the known Taxol target, beta-tubulin. Using biotin-labeled Taxol, avidin-agarose affinity chromatography, and peptide mass fingerprinting, we identified two Taxol targets from mouse macrophages and brain as heat shock proteins (Hsps) of the ...[more]