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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 108, Issue 3 1083-1092, Copyright © 1995 by Company of Biologists
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A Vassilev, M Kimble, CD Silflow, M LaVoie and R Kuriyama
Department of Cell Biology and Neuroanatomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA.
A new member of the tubulin superfamily, gamma-tubulin, is localized at microtubule-organizing centers (MTOCs) in a variety of organisms. Chlamydomonas cDNA coding for the full-length sequence of gamma-tubulin was expressed in insect ovarian Sf9 cells using the baculovirus expression system. Approximately half of the induced 52 kDa gamma-tubulin was recovered in the supernatant after centrifugation of Sf9 cell lysates at 18,000 g for 15 minutes. When the cell supernatant was analyzed by FPLC on a Superdex 200 sizing column, Chlamydomonas gamma-tubulin separated into two major peaks. The lagging peak contained a monomeric form of gamma-tubulin with a sedimentation coefficient of 2.5 S, which interacted with the Superdex column in a salt-dependent manner. The leading peak, with an apparent molecular mass of 900 kDa, corresponded to a molecular chaperonin complex, and TCP1 chaperonin released folded gamma-tubulin polypeptide from the complex in the presence of MgATP. The released gamma-tubulin monomers were capable of binding to microtubules in vitro and biochemical quantities of active monomers were further purified using a combination of size-exclusion and ion-exchange column chromatography. The endogenous Sf9 cell gamma-tubulin migrated faster than Chlamydomonas gamma-tubulin with an apparent molecular mass of 49 kDa on gels. Analyses on gel filtration and sucrose density gradient centrifugation showed that, while overexpressed Chlamydomonas gamma-tubulin was present in a monomeric form, endogenous gamma-tubulin from Sf9 and HeLa cells exists as a dimer. These results may suggest the possibility that gamma-tubulin could form a heterodimer with hitherto unknown molecule(s).
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