Abstract
The c-mos protein has been reported to be complexed with tubulin and to co-localize with microtubules in unfertilized Xenopus eggs as well as in NIH3T3 cells transformed by the Xenopus c-mos gene. We performed experiments to determine whether the viral mos protein, p37v-mos, also associates with tubulin. Both mouse c-mos and v-mos proteins synthesized in vitro co-polymerized with tubulin. Upon incubation at 37°C, essentially all of the mos protein (both viral and cellular) co-polymerized with tubulin, while more than 50% of the tubulin remained in the depolymerized state. The mos-tubulin interaction was specific, as indicated by the insolubility of the v-mos protein following a second cycle of temperature-dependent depolymerization/polymerization. Beta-tubulin was shown to co-precipitate with p3Tv-mos and to be phosphorylated by the mos kinase in vitro. Although both v-mos and c-mos proteins co-polymerize with tubulin, p37v-mos behaved differently from p39c-mos on gel filtration columns under conditions that favor disassembly of microtubules. Like Xenopus c-mos, the bulk of the mouse c-mos protein synthesized in vitro appeared in structures that fractionate at about 500 kDa. In contrast to c-mos, the majority of the v-mos protein, either isolated from stably transformed NIH3T3 cells or synthesized in vitro, eluted in the 100 kDa fraction, cofractionating with tubulin dimers. Therefore, the v-mos protein appears to have a higher affinity for unpolymerized tubulin than c-mos, under conditions that favor disassembly of microtubules.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 493-500 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Oncogene |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - Mar 1992 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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The physical interactions between p37env-mos and tubulin structures. / Bai, Wenlong; Singh, Balraj; Yang, Yandan; Ramagli, Louis S.; Nash, Michael; Herzog, Norbert K.; Arlinghaus, Ralph B.
In: Oncogene, Vol. 7, No. 3, 03.1992, p. 493-500.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - The physical interactions between p37env-mos and tubulin structures
AU - Bai, Wenlong
AU - Singh, Balraj
AU - Yang, Yandan
AU - Ramagli, Louis S.
AU - Nash, Michael
AU - Herzog, Norbert K.
AU - Arlinghaus, Ralph B.
PY - 1992/3
Y1 - 1992/3
N2 - The c-mos protein has been reported to be complexed with tubulin and to co-localize with microtubules in unfertilized Xenopus eggs as well as in NIH3T3 cells transformed by the Xenopus c-mos gene. We performed experiments to determine whether the viral mos protein, p37v-mos, also associates with tubulin. Both mouse c-mos and v-mos proteins synthesized in vitro co-polymerized with tubulin. Upon incubation at 37°C, essentially all of the mos protein (both viral and cellular) co-polymerized with tubulin, while more than 50% of the tubulin remained in the depolymerized state. The mos-tubulin interaction was specific, as indicated by the insolubility of the v-mos protein following a second cycle of temperature-dependent depolymerization/polymerization. Beta-tubulin was shown to co-precipitate with p3Tv-mos and to be phosphorylated by the mos kinase in vitro. Although both v-mos and c-mos proteins co-polymerize with tubulin, p37v-mos behaved differently from p39c-mos on gel filtration columns under conditions that favor disassembly of microtubules. Like Xenopus c-mos, the bulk of the mouse c-mos protein synthesized in vitro appeared in structures that fractionate at about 500 kDa. In contrast to c-mos, the majority of the v-mos protein, either isolated from stably transformed NIH3T3 cells or synthesized in vitro, eluted in the 100 kDa fraction, cofractionating with tubulin dimers. Therefore, the v-mos protein appears to have a higher affinity for unpolymerized tubulin than c-mos, under conditions that favor disassembly of microtubules.
AB - The c-mos protein has been reported to be complexed with tubulin and to co-localize with microtubules in unfertilized Xenopus eggs as well as in NIH3T3 cells transformed by the Xenopus c-mos gene. We performed experiments to determine whether the viral mos protein, p37v-mos, also associates with tubulin. Both mouse c-mos and v-mos proteins synthesized in vitro co-polymerized with tubulin. Upon incubation at 37°C, essentially all of the mos protein (both viral and cellular) co-polymerized with tubulin, while more than 50% of the tubulin remained in the depolymerized state. The mos-tubulin interaction was specific, as indicated by the insolubility of the v-mos protein following a second cycle of temperature-dependent depolymerization/polymerization. Beta-tubulin was shown to co-precipitate with p3Tv-mos and to be phosphorylated by the mos kinase in vitro. Although both v-mos and c-mos proteins co-polymerize with tubulin, p37v-mos behaved differently from p39c-mos on gel filtration columns under conditions that favor disassembly of microtubules. Like Xenopus c-mos, the bulk of the mouse c-mos protein synthesized in vitro appeared in structures that fractionate at about 500 kDa. In contrast to c-mos, the majority of the v-mos protein, either isolated from stably transformed NIH3T3 cells or synthesized in vitro, eluted in the 100 kDa fraction, cofractionating with tubulin dimers. Therefore, the v-mos protein appears to have a higher affinity for unpolymerized tubulin than c-mos, under conditions that favor disassembly of microtubules.
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