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CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 10, 期 14, 页码 865-868出版社
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00600-X
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Adenomatous polyposis coil protein (APC) is a well-characterized tumor suppressor protein [1-3]. We previously showed that APC tagged with green fluorescent protein (GFP) in Xenopus A6 epithelial cells moves along a subset of microtubules and accumulates at their growing plus ends in cell extensions [4]. EB1, which was identified as an APC binding protein by yeast two-hybrid analysis [5], was also reported to be associated with microtubules [6-8], To examine the interaction between APC and EB1 within cells, we compared the dynamic behavior of EB1-GFP with that of APC-GFP in A6 transfectants, Time lapse microscopy of live cells at interphase revealed that EB1-GFP was concentrated at all of the growing microtubule ends throughout the cytoplasm and abruptly disappeared from the ends when microtubules began to shorten. Therefore, EB1 appeared to be co-localized and interact with APC on the growing ends of a subset of microtubules. When APC-GFP was overexpressed, endogenous EB1 was recruited to APC-GFP, which accumulated in large amounts on microtubules. On the other hand, when microtubules were disassembled by nocodazole, EB1 was not co localized with APC-GFP, which was concentrated along the basal plasma membrane. During mitosis, APC appeared to be dissociated from microtubules, whereas EB1-GFP continued to concentrate at microtubule growing ends. These findings showed that the APC-EB1 interaction is regulated within cells and is allowed near the ends of microtubules only under restricted conditions.
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