TPPP/p25 Promotes Tubulin Assemblies and Blocks Mitotic Spindle Formation
Recently, we isolated from bovine brain a protein, TPPP/p25 and identified as p25, a brain-specific protein that induced aberrant tubulin assemblies. The primary sequence of this protein differs from that of other proteins identified so far; however, it shows high homology with p25-like hypothetical...
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Published in | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 100; no. 24; pp. 13976 - 13981 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
National Academy of Sciences
25.11.2003
National Acad Sciences |
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Summary: | Recently, we isolated from bovine brain a protein, TPPP/p25 and identified as p25, a brain-specific protein that induced aberrant tubulin assemblies. The primary sequence of this protein differs from that of other proteins identified so far; however, it shows high homology with p25-like hypothetical proteins sought via Blast. Here, we characterized the binding of TPPP/p25 to tubulin by means of surface plasmon resonance; the kinetic parameters are as follows:$k_{on},\>2.4 \times 10^4\>M^{-1}\!\cdot\!s^{-1};\>k_{off},\>5.4 \times 10^{-3}\>s^{-1}$; and$K_d,\>2.3 \times 10^{-7}\>M$. This protein at substoichometric concentration promotes the polymerization of tubulin into double-walled tubules and polymorphic aggregates or bundles paclitaxel-stabilized microtubules as judged by quantitative data of electron and atomic force microscopies. Injection of bovine TPPP/p25 into cleavage Drosophila embryos expressing tubulin-GFP fusion protein reveals that TPPP/p25 inhibits mitotic spindle assembly and nuclear envelope breakdown without affecting other cellular events like centrosome replication and separation, microtubule nucleation by the centrosomes, and nuclear growth. GTP counteracts TPPP/p25 both in vitro and in vivo. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Institute of Enzymology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Budapest, Karolina út 29, Hungary. E-mail: ovadi@enzim.hu. Communicated by Tibor Farkas, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, October 1, 2003 Abbreviations: TPPP/p25, tubulin polymerization promoting protein, MT, microtubule; SPR, surface plasmon resonance; AFM, atomic force microscopy; TEM, transmission electron microscopy; NE, nuclear envelope. |
ISSN: | 0027-8424 1091-6490 |
DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.2436331100 |