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Tubulin-nucleotide interactions. Effects of removal of exchangeable guanine nucleotide on protein conformation and microtubule assembly.

ABSTRACT: The removal of tightly bound GDP from the exchangeable nucleotide-binding site of tubulin has been performed with alkaline phosphatase under conditions which essentially retain the assembly properties of the protein. When microtubule protein is treated with alkaline phosphatase, nucleotide is selectively removed from tubulin dimer rather than from MAP (microtubule-associated protein)-containing oligomeric species. Tubulin devoid of E-site (the exchangeable nucleotide-binding site of the tubulin dimer) nucleotide shows enhanced proteolytic susceptibility of the beta-subunit to thermolysin and decreased protein stability, consistent with nucleotide removal causing changes in protein tertiary structure. Pyrophosphate ion (3 mM) is able to promote formation of normal microtubules in the complete absence of GTP by incubation at 37 degrees C either with nucleotide-depleted microtubule protein or with nucleotide-depleted tubulin dimer to which MAPs have been added. The resulting microtubules contain up to 80% of tubulin lacking E-site nucleotide. In addition to its effects on nucleation, pyrophosphate competes weakly with GDP bound at the E-site. It is deduced that binding of pyrophosphate at a vacant E-site can promote microtubule assembly. The minimum structural requirement for ligands to induce tubulin assembly apparently involves charge neutralization at the E-site by bidentate ligation, which stabilizes protein domains in a favourable orientation for promoting the supramolecular protein-protein interactions involved in microtubule formation.

SUBMITTER: Manser EJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1147531 | biostudies-other | 1987 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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