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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2016

Tubulin Dimer Reversible Dissociation: AFFINITY, KINETICS, AND DEMONSTRATION OF A STABLE MONOMER.

Felipe Montecinos-Franjola, Peter Schuck, Dan L Sackett

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Felipe Montecinos-FranjolaFrom the Program in Physical Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD and felipe.montecinos@nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-103X
Peter Schuckthe Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NHBLI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
Dan L SackettFrom the Program in Physical Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD and sackettd@mail.nih.gov.

Funding

Microtubule regulation by small molecules.ZIAHD008765 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI SACKETT, DAN L · 2009 to 2025
$8.9M
Biophysical Characterization Of MacromoleculesZIAEB000008 · NIBIB · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING · PI SCHUCK, PETER · 2009 to 2019
$1.7M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tubulins are evolutionarily conserved proteins that reversibly polymerize and direct intracellular traffic. Of the tubulin family only αβ-tubulin forms stable dimers. We investigated the monomer-dimer equilibrium of rat brain αβ-tubulin using analytical ultracentrifugation and fluorescence anisotropy, observing tubulin in virtually fully monomeric and dimeric states. Monomeric tubulin was stable for a few hours and exchanged into preformed dimers, demonstrating reversibility of dimer dissociation. Global analysis combining sedimentation velocity and fluorescence anisotropy yielded Kd = 84 (54-123) nm Dimer dissociation kinetics were measured by analyzing the shape of the sedimentation boundary and by the relaxation of fluorescence anisotropy following rapid dilution of labeled tubulin, yielding koff in the range 10(-3)-10(-2) s(-1) Thus, tubulin dimers reversibly dissociate with moderately fast kinetics. Monomer-monomer association is much less sensitive than dimer-dimer association to solution changes (GTP/GDP, urea, and trimethylamine oxide).

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Protein MultimerizationAnimalsKineticsProtein StabilityRatsTubulinTubulinanalytical ultracentrifugationdimerizationfluorescence anisotropykineticsmicrotubuleprotein-protein interactionthermodynamicstubulin

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PMID26934918
PMCPMC4861492

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