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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 383, Issue -, Pages 227-235Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20040736
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ATPase activity; Kin I; mitosis; microtubule depolymerization; mitotic centromere-associated kinesin (MCAK); Xenopus kinesin catastrophe modulator-1 (XKCM1)
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Mitotic centromere-associated kinesin (MCAK) is a microtubule (MT)-destabilizing molecular motor. In the present study we show that the final 8 amino acids of the C-terminus of MCAK inhibit lattice-stimulated ATPase activity of the motor. Surprisingly, loss of this C-terminal 'tail' (MCAK-Q710) leads to more rapid depolymerization of MTs relative to full-length MCAK (wt-MCAK). Biochemical and microscopic assays revealed that MCAK-Q710 bound to the MT lattice with higher apparent affinity as compared with wt-MCAK. End-stimulated depolymerization was similar for both enzymes. These data suggest that lattice-bound MCAK can increase the rate of MT depolymerization, but at an energy cost. The function of the C-terminus of MCAK may be to selectively inhibit lattice-stimulated ATPase activity, resulting in limited interactions of the motor with the MT lattice. This increases the coupling between ATP hydrolysis and tubulin dimer release, but it also limits NIT depolymerization.
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