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CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON
卷 56, 期 4, 页码 225-236出版社
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/cm.10147
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ribonucleoprotein particles; multidrug resistance; cytoskeleton; VPARP; MVP; TEP1
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Vaults are large (13 Mda) ribonucleoprotein particles that are especially abundant in multidrug resistant cancer cells and have been implicated in nucleocytoplasmic drug transport. To understand how these large barrel-shaped complexes are transported through the cytosol, we examined the association of vaults with microtubules both in vitro and in vivo. Within cells, a subpopulation of vaults clearly associates with microtubules, and these vaults remain associated with tubulin dimers/oligomers when microtubules are disassembled by nocodazole treatment. In vitro, a microtubule-pull down assay using highly purified rat vaults and reassembled microtubules reveals that vaults exhibit concentration-dependent binding to microtubules that does not require the carboxyl terminal end of tubulin. Remarkably, negative staining for electron microscopy reveals that vault binding to microtubules is mediated by the vault caps; more than 82% of bound vaults attach to the microtubule lattice with their long axes perpendicular to the long axis of the microtubule. Five to six vault particles were bound per micron of microtubule, with no crosslinking of microtubules observed, suggesting that only one end of the vault can bind microtubules. Taken together, the data support the model of vaults as barrel-shaped containers that transiently interact with microtubules.
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