Cold adaptation of microtubule assembly and dynamics -: Structural interpretation of primary sequence changes present in the α- and β-tubulins of antarctic fishes

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Detrich, HW
Parker, SK
Williams, RC
Nogales, E
Downing, KH
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[1] Northeastern Univ, Dept Biol, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] Vanderbilt Univ, Dept Mol Biol, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Div Life Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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10.1074/jbc.M005699200
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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The microtubules of Antarctic fishes, unlike those of homeotherms, assemble at very low temperatures (-1.8 degreesC). The adaptations that enhance assembly of these microtubules are intrinsic to the tubulin dimer and reduce its critical concentration for polymerization at 0 degreesC to similar to0.9 mg/ml (Williams, R, C., Jr., Correia, J. J., and DeVries, A. L. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 2790-2798). Here we demonstrate that microtubules formed by pure brain tubulins of Antarctic fishes exhibit slow dynamics at both low (5 degreesC) and high (25 degreesC) temperatures; the rates of polymer growth and shortening and the frequencies of interconversion between these states are small relative to those observed for mammalian microtubules (37 degreesC). To investigate the contribution of tubulin primary sequence variation to the functional properties of the microtubules of Antarctic fishes, we have sequenced brain cDNAs that encode 9 alpha -tubulins and 4 beta -tubulins from the yellowbelly rockcod Notothenia coriiceps and 4 alpha -tubulins and 2 beta -tubulins from the ocellated icefish Chionodraco rastrospinosus. The tubulins of these fishes mere found to contain small sets of unique or rare residue substitutions that mapped to the lateral, interprotofilament surfaces or to the interiors of the alpha- and beta -polypeptides; longitudinal interaction surfaces are not altered in the fish tubulins. Four changes (A278T and S287T in alpha; S280G and A285S in beta) were present in the S7-H9 interprotofilament ''M'' loops of some monomers and would be expected to increase the flexibility of these regions. A fifth lateral substitution specific to the alpha -chain (M302L or M302F) may increase the hydrophobicity of the interprotofilament interaction. Two hydrophobic substitutions (alpha :S187A in helix H5 and beta :Y202F in sheet S6) may act to stabilize the monomers in conformations favorable to polymerization. We propose that cold adaptation of microtubule assembly in Antarctic fishes has occurred in part by evolutionary restructuring of the lateral surfaces and the cores of the tubulin monomers.
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