Journal of Cell Science, Vol 107, Issue 2 683-692, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists

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Tubulin and tektin in sea urchin embryonic cilia: pathways of protein incorporation during turnover and regeneration

RE Stephens
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543.

Axonemal precursor tubulin is the major protein component of the detergent-soluble membrane/matrix fraction of sea urchin embryonic cilia. Its unusual abundance may reflect the rapid turnover of these cilia, a process that is further documented here. However, whether during induced regeneration or normal turnover and growth, most other newly synthesized axonemal proteins are not detectable in the membrane/matrix fraction, raising the question of how non-tubulin precursors transit the growing cilium to the distal tip where assembly is generally thought to occur. Three potential explanations were considered: (1) the assembly of these components is proximal; (2) their relative concentration is too low to detect; or (3) tubulin alone is conveyed via a membrane/matrix pathway while most other axonemal proteins are transported in association with the axoneme. Light microscope autoradiography of axonemes pulse-chase labeled with [3H]leucine showed relatively uniform labeling, with no evidence for proximal incorporation. Fully grown cilia and cilia at early stages of regeneration were isolated from labeled embryos, fractionated into membrane/matrix, axonemal tubulin and architectural remnant components, and their labeled protein compositions were compared. Heavily labeled axonemal proteins, most notably the integral microtubule doublet component tektin-A, were not detected in the membrane/matrix fraction of emerging cilia, even though nearly half of the total ciliary tubulin appeared in that fraction, arguing against membrane-associated or soluble matrix transit for the architectural proteins at low concentrations. However, after thermal fractionation of axonemes from growing cilia, labeled proteins characteristic of the architectural remnant dominated the solubilized microtubule fraction, supporting axoneme-associated transport of the non-tubulin proteins during growth, in contrast to a membrane/matrix pathway for tubulin.

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