Microtubules are dynamic structures, which means that they are permanently in a state of assembly and disassembly. Vinca ... Microtubules are an important cellular structure composed of two proteins, α-tubulin and β-tubulin. They are hollow, rod-shaped ... They bind to specific sites on tubulin, inhibiting the assembly of tubulin into microtubules. The original vinca alkaloids are ... Anti-microtubule agents are plant-derived chemicals that block cell division by preventing microtubule function. ...
Microtubule associated protein (Tau) is found predominantly in the central neural system and its major function is to promote ... assembly and to stabilize neuronal microtubules. Six isoforms of Tau were identified in humans that are differentiated by the ... or other modifications that result in the protein detachment from microtubules. These modified Tau molecules can self-associate ... Recombinant Tau-441 protein was purified from bacterial lysate using proprietary method. GST tag was cleaved and removed using ...
Inhibitors of microtubule assembly, vinblastine for example, are used for cancer chemotherapy. How does an inhibitor of ... What happens to the proteins that are synthesized on free ribosomes in the cytoplasm? Do they go through the Golgi apparatus? ... microtubule assembly affect cancerous cells?. * The inhibitors restrict the separation of chromosomes, thereby stopping cell ... The proteins do not go through the Golgi apparatus and move into the nucleus for processing. ...
Mutations in genes encoding tubulins and microtubule-associated proteins are known to cause neurodevelopmental and ... We report that biallelic mutations in TBCD, encoding one of the five co-chaperones required for assembly and disassembly of the ... Microtubules are dynamic cytoskeletal elements coordinating and supporting a variety of neuronal processes, including cell ... Biallelic Mutations in TBCD, Encoding the Tubulin Folding Cofactor D, Perturb Microtubule Dynamics and Cause Early-Onset ...
Individual tubulin proteins in microtubules also have terahertz vibrations. But larger microtubules composed of many tubulins ... Correlating single protein to its supramolecular assembly," Biosensors and Bioelectronics 47: 141-148, 2013, doi: 10.1016/j. ... There is no known mechanism for protecting microtubules (rigid tubes made of the tubulin protein) from decoherence, the ... There is no known mechanism for protecting microtubules (rigid tubes made of the tubulin protein) from decoherence, the ...
The founding member of the EMAP-like protein family is the Echinoderm Microtubule-Associated Protein (EMAP), so-named for its ... Presynaptic assembly requires the packaging of requisite proteins into vesicular cargoes in the cell soma, their long-distance ... These results implicate GTP-binding proteins (G protein) in the signal transduction pathway. This G protein is probably not ... The C-elegans EMAP-like protein, ELP-1 is required for touch sensation and associates with microtubules and adhesion complexes ...
... microtubules and related motor proteins (Vallee et al., 2009; Trivedi and Solecki, 2011). The actomyosin contractile force ... Structural requirements for the assembly of LINC complexes and their function in cellular mechanical stiffness ... To explore the microtubule arrangement in migrating CGCs, we monitored the plus-ends of growing microtubules by transfecting ... We next tested the effect of the microtubule depolymerizer nocodazole. Treatment with nocodazole (1 μM) disrupted microtubule ...
... trafficking of ciliary membrane proteins and regulation of IFT particle assembly [61, 63,64,65]. BBS proteins also appear to ... The ALMS1 protein is a component of the centrosome [18, 19], a microtubule (MT)-nucleating organelle comprising two centrioles ... Protein-protein interactions and proximity interactions. Numerous candidate ALMS1-interacting proteins have been reported. ... The ALMS1 protein. ALMS1 is a large (, 4000 residue) protein that lacks known catalytic domains [11, 12]. It has several ...
... including microtubule-based process (P = 3.48 × 10−10), protein transport (P = 1.35 × 10−9), and mitotic spindle assembly (P = ... how cytoplasmic UHRF1 regulates proteins associated with CPL formation and microtubule-based processes is unknown. The protein ... Only four genes (proteins) overlapped. (F) Gene ontology analysis of the 52 up-regulated and 294 down-regulated proteins in KO ... A proteomic analysis of KO oocytes revealed the down-regulation of proteins associated with microtubules including tubulins, ...
... transcripts in a wide range of tissues may also indicate a potential role for PF2-related proteins in other microtubule-based ... PF2 and its homologues appear to be universal components of motile axonemes that are required for DRC assembly and the ... transcripts in a wide range of tissues may also indicate a potential role for PF2-related proteins in other microtubule-based ... transcripts in a wide range of tissues may also indicate a potential role for PF2-related proteins in other microtubule-based ...
Chromosomes and microtubules are coupled by a large protein complex known as the kinetochore. The kinetochore synchronizes ... I have developed a novel in vitro kinetochore assembly assay that permits real-time imaging of kinetochores as they assemble on ... Proteins are some of the most important functional units in our cells. To make proteins, our cells turn on genes (these are ... In humans, the homolog of SUT-2 protein is MSUT2. MSUT2, an RNA binding protein, is abundant in neurons and correlates with an ...
... or disassembly of structures formed of microtubules and associated proteins in the cytoplasm of a cell. ... A process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, ... A process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or ... or disassembly of structures formed of microtubules and associated proteins in the cytoplasm of a cell. ], comment: [] }, ...
... of PCM proteins. We then showed that Tubulin, the building block of microtubules, functions as a switch like regulatory subunit ... Centrosome assembly: My first work as an independent investigator was the discovery that Asterless/Cep152 is a key regulator in ... This work has discovered many of the ciliary proteins that were studied in the last decade of ciliary research. One conclusion ... My second line of investigation in centrosome assembly involves studying centrosome biogenesis in Drosophila using biochemistry ...
Echinoderm microtubule-associated protein like protein 4, a member of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein family, ... which is necessary for the assembly of a dynamic mitotic spindle (Adib et al. 2019). EML4, through its WD40 repeats, interacts ... Microtubule association of EML proteins and the EML4-ALK variant 3 oncoprotein require an N-terminal trimerization domain ... EML4 and NUDC proteins are required for mitotic spindle formation, attachment of spindle microtubule ends to kinetochores, and ...
... assembly and the functions of the spindle apparatus are tightly regulated by the orchestrated interplay of dynamic microtubules ... 2005). Kif18A is a member of the kinesin-8 protein family characterized by its unique dual functionality, which couples a ... 2001). In addition to Cytoplasmic dynein, motor proteins of the kinesin superfamily are fundamental for the structure and ... Moreover, detailed kinetics studies revealed its inhibitory activity to be ATP competitive and microtubule uncompetitive. When ...
... centromere protein E (CENPE), and centromere protein F (CENPF), and (4) Functional data validating gene depletion among mitotic ... which have revealed a key pathway related to the spindle assembly checkpoint underlying paclitaxel resistance in ovarian cell ... Kinetochore motor proteins CENPE and CENPF are required for proper microtubule attachment and regulation of the spindle ... Since paclitaxel is an effective microtubule drug and exerts apoptotic effect through the regulation of the spindle assembly ...
Alpha-crystallin expression affects microtubule assembly and prevents their aggregation. FASEB J. 2006; 20:846-57. [PMID: ... 127 proteins had an SNR ≥ 1.2. The 127 proteins are listed in Appendix 2. The SNRs of the following eight proteins were above ... The protein-protein interactions may help CRYAA carry out multifaceted functions. Conclusions: One-hundred and twenty-seven of ... PAFAH1B1 positively regulates the activity of the minus-end-directed microtubule motor protein dynein and enhances dynein- ...
May act by stabilizing interphase microtubules. ASAP is a microtubule-associated protein required for spindle function, mitotic ... Required for bipolar spindle assembly, mitosis progression and cytokinesis. ... Required for bipolar spindle assembly, mitosis progression and cytokinesis. May act by stabilizing interphase microtubules. ... ASAP is a microtubule-associated protein required for spindle function, mitotic progression, and cytokinesis (Saffin et al., ...
Dyneins are a family of cytoskeletal motor proteins that move along microtubules in cells. They convert the chemical energy ... Each molecule of the dynein motor is a complex protein assembly composed of many smaller polypeptide subunits. Cytoplasmic and ... Dynein pulls the microtubules and chromosomes to one end of the cell. When the end of the microtubules become close to the cell ... Many viruses use the microtubule transport system to transport nucleic acid/protein cores to intracellular replication sites ...
Motor proteins regulate force interactions between microtubules and microfilaments in the axon. 2000, Pubmed Aleksenko, ... A screen for dynein synthetic lethals in Aspergillus nidulans identifies spindle assembly checkpoint genes and other genes ... Figure 5. NUDE protein tagged with VSV-G epitopes coprecipitates with NUDF in A. nidulans protein extracts. (A) Total protein ... Motor proteins regulate force interactions between microtubules and microfilaments in the axon. 2000, Pubmed ...
... thus provides an important step for subsequent study of microtubule-associated protein-tubulin and plasma-membrane-microtubule ... Tubulin assembly was disrupted by glycerol and a selection of microtubule-reactive drugs. Immunological analysis of the ... This is the first isolation of trypanosome tubulin with the ability to form structurally normal microtubules independent of the ... Polymerization of the tubulin in vitro yielded long, structurally normal, microtubules and some sheet structures on addition of ...
... a group of microtubule-associated proteins that contribute to the assembly and stabilization of microtubules. Tau function is ... proteins that form the catalytic unit of the γ-secretase protein complex (. 6. ). Another recent hypothesis attributes synaptic ... Legend: A, alanine; Aβ, amyloid β; APP-NTF, N-terminal fragment of the amyloid precursor protein; APP-CTF, C-terminal fragment ... A target may be a receptor, proteins (enzymes), DNA, RNA, or ribosomes. In addition, the "drugability" of a target, which may ...
... called tau proteins which have been extensively studied for their function in the assembly and stabilization of microtubules ... are characterized by the aggregation of specific microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) ... Although this protein is natively unfolded and its propensity for aggregation is negligible, post-translational modifications, ... Extended fractional-polynomial generalizations of diffusion and Fisher-KPP equations to model misfolded proteins propagation in ...
... protein polymerization, microtubule assembly and microtubule stability of the unique mechanism of action, thus inhibiting ... can induce and promote microtubule (which tumor cells division, the proliferation of carrier) ...
... thus provides an important step for subsequent study of microtubule-associated protein-tubulin and plasma-membrane-microtubule ... Tubulin assembly was disrupted by glycerol and a selection of microtubule-reactive drugs. Immunological analysis of the ... This is the first isolation of trypanosome tubulin with the ability to form structurally normal microtubules independent of the ... Polymerization of the tubulin in vitro yielded long, structurally normal, microtubules and some sheet structures on addition of ...
GMAP210 protein (Golgi -microtubule-associated protein, GMAP210) coded by the TRIP11 gene is a Golgi apparatus associated ... and a C-terminal microtubule-binding domain (exons 18 to 21). Studies suggested that it plays a role in assembly and ... 2001). "Two splice variants of Golgi microtubule-associated protein of 210 kDa (GMAP-210) differ in their binding to the cis- ... and is also required for the glycosylation and cellular transport of multiple proteins (Ramos-Morales, F. et al. Biochem J 357( ...
Association of mitochondria with microtubules inhibits mitochondrial fission by precluding assembly of the fission protein Dnm1 ... She proposed that kinesin-5 acts with another protein to allow newly nucleated microtubules to grow along existing microtubules ... Microtubule-motor interactions - different modes of regulation. Motor proteins exhibit a range of behaviors on their ... Within a cell, bidirectional transport of cargo on microtubule filaments is brought about by oppositely directed motor proteins ...
These protein complexes have many functions: the regulation of senescence, the oxygen-sensing pathway, microtubule stability ... and orientation, cilia formation, cytokine signaling, collagen IV assembly into the extracellular matrix, assembly regulation ... pVHL also binds to microtubules and to fibronectin, a glycoprotein that interacts with structural proteins of the cell. Cells ... In kindreds with VHL disease that have a deletion or protein-truncating mutation of the VHL gene (type 1 VHL disease), the ...
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