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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 103, Issue 4 965-976, Copyright © 1992 by Company of Biologists
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NK Pryer, RA Walker, VP Skeen, BD Bourns, MF Soboeiro and ED Salmon
Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.
We used video assays to study the dynamic instability behavior of individual microtubules assembled in vitro with purified tau, purified MAP2 or a preparation of unfractionated heat-stable MAPs. Axoneme-nucleated microtubules were assembled from pure tubulin at concentrations between 4 and 9 microM in the presence of MAPs, and observed by video-differential interference contrast microscopy. Microtubules co-assembled with each MAP preparation exhibited the elongation and rapid shortening phases and the abrupt transitions (catastrophe and rescue) characteristic of dynamic instability. Each MAP preparation increased the microtubule elongation rate above that for purified tubulin alone by decreasing the tubulin subunit dissociation rate during elongation. The brain MAPs used in this study reduced the rate of microtubule rapid shortening, but allowed significant loss of polymer during the shortening phase. Purified tau and MAP2 decreased the frequency of catastrophe and increased the frequency of rescue, while the heat-stable MAPs suppressed catastrophe at all but the lowest tubulin concentrations. Thus, each of these MAPs modulates, but does not abolish, dynamic instability behavior of microtubules. We propose a model to explain how MAP2 and tau bind to the microtubule lattice at sites along protofilaments so that the MAPs promote polymerization, but do not significantly block the mechanism of rapid shortening inherent in the tubulin lattice. Rapid shortening, when it occurs, proceeds primarily by the dissociation of short fragments of protofilaments, which contain the bound MAPs.
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