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Protein chains
412 a.a. *
426 a.a. *
Ligands
GTP
GDP
TA1
Metals
_ZN
_MG
* Residue conservation analysis
PDB id:
1jff
Name: Structural protein
Title: Refined structure of alpha-beta tubulin from zinc-induced sheets stabilized with taxol
Structure: Tubulin alpha chain. Chain: a. Tubulin beta chain. Chain: b
Source: Bos taurus. Cattle. Organism_taxid: 9913. Organ: brain. Organ: brain
Biol. unit: Dimer (from PQS)
Authors: J.Lowe,H.Li,K.H.Downing,E.Nogales
Key ref:
J.Löwe et al. (2001). Refined structure of alpha beta-tubulin at 3.5 A resolution. J Mol Biol, 313, 1045-1057. PubMed id: 11700061 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5077
Date:
20-Jun-01     Release date:   19-Sep-01    
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Protein chain
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
P81947  (TBA1B_BOVIN) -  Tubulin alpha-1B chain from Bos taurus
Seq:
Struc:
451 a.a.
412 a.a.*
Protein chain
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Q6B856  (TBB2B_BOVIN) -  Tubulin beta-2B chain from Bos taurus
Seq:
Struc:
445 a.a.
426 a.a.*
Key:    PfamA domain  Secondary structure  CATH domain
* PDB and UniProt seqs differ at 9 residue positions (black crosses)

 Enzyme reactions 
   Enzyme class: Chain A: E.C.3.6.5.-  - ?????
[IntEnz]   [ExPASy]   [KEGG]   [BRENDA]

 

 
DOI no: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5077 J Mol Biol 313:1045-1057 (2001)
PubMed id: 11700061  
 
 
Refined structure of alpha beta-tubulin at 3.5 A resolution.
J.Löwe, H.Li, K.H.Downing, E.Nogales.
 
  ABSTRACT  
 
We present a refined model of the alpha beta-tubulin dimer to 3.5 A resolution. An improved experimental density for the zinc-induced tubulin sheets was obtained by adding 114 electron diffraction patterns at 40-60 degrees tilt and increasing the completeness of structure factor amplitudes to 84.7 %. The refined structure was obtained using maximum-likelihood including phase information from experimental images, and simulated annealing Cartesian refinement to an R-factor of 23.2 and free R-factor of 29.7. The current model includes residues alpha:2-34, alpha:61-439, beta:2-437, one molecule of GTP, one of GDP, and one of taxol, as well as one magnesium ion at the non-exchangeable nucleotide site, and one putative zinc ion near the M-loop in the alpha-tubulin subunit. The acidic C-terminal tails could not be traced accurately, neither could the N-terminal loop including residues 35-60 in the alpha-subunit. There are no major changes in the overall fold of tubulin with respect to the previous structure, testifying to the quality of the initial experimental phases. The overall geometry of the model is, however, greatly improved, and the position of side-chains, especially those of exposed polar/charged groups, is much better defined. Three short protein sequence frame shifts were detected with respect to the non-refined structure. In light of the new model we discuss details of the tubulin structure such as nucleotide and taxol binding sites, lateral contacts in zinc-sheets, and the significance of the location of highly conserved residues.
 
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Figure 4.
Figure 4. Stacking of aromatic residues in the N-terminal b-sheet of a-tubulin. The Figure was generated with O.[45]
Figure 6.
Figure 6. (a) 2F[o] -F[c] density for taxol within the b-tubulin structure shown as C^a trace for clarity. The Figure was generated with O.[45] (b) Stereo view of the taxol site including residues that make direct contact with the taxol molecule. The Figure was generated with Insight II (Biosym Inc.).
 
  The above figures are reprinted by permission from Elsevier: J Mol Biol (2001, 313, 1045-1057) copyright 2001.  
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PDB code: 3cb2
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The paclitaxel site in tubulin probed by site-directed mutagenesis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae beta-tubulin.
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18988212 R.D.Winefield, R.A.Entwistle, T.B.Foland, G.H.Lushington, and R.H.Himes (2008).
Differences in paclitaxel and docetaxel interactions with tubulin detected by mutagenesis of yeast tubulin.
  ChemMedChem, 3, 1844-1847.  
18806800 R.Nitta, Y.Okada, and N.Hirokawa (2008).
Structural model for strain-dependent microtubule activation of Mg-ADP release from kinesin.
  Nat Struct Mol Biol, 15, 1067-1075.
PDB codes: 2zfi 2zfj 2zfk 2zfl 2zfm
18601450 S.Enemark, M.A.Deriu, M.Soncini, and A.Redaelli (2008).
Mechanical model of the tubulin dimer based on molecular dynamics simulations.
  J Biomech Eng, 130, 041008.  
18291323 T.Läppchen, V.A.Pinas, A.F.Hartog, G.J.Koomen, C.Schaffner-Barbero, J.M.Andreu, D.Trambaiolo, J.Löwe, A.Juhem, A.V.Popov, and T.den Blaauwen (2008).
Probing FtsZ and tubulin with C8-substituted GTP analogs reveals differences in their nucleotide binding sites.
  Chem Biol, 15, 189-199.
PDB code: 2r75
18515385 Y.Gebremichael, J.W.Chu, and G.A.Voth (2008).
Intrinsic bending and structural rearrangement of tubulin dimer: molecular dynamics simulations and coarse-grained analysis.
  Biophys J, 95, 2487-2499.  
18776989 Z.N.Gheshlaghi, G.H.Riazi, S.Ahmadian, M.Ghafari, and R.Mahinpour (2008).
Toxicity and interaction of titanium dioxide nanoparticles with microtubule protein.
  Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai), 40, 777-782.  
17298389 C.Goswami, T.B.Hucho, and F.Hucho (2007).
Identification and characterisation of novel tubulin-binding motifs located within the C-terminus of TRPV1.
  J Neurochem, 101, 250-262.  
17881728 C.Ma, C.Li, L.Ganesan, J.Oak, S.Tsai, D.Sept, and N.S.Morrissette (2007).
Mutations in alpha-tubulin confer dinitroaniline resistance at a cost to microtubule function.
  Mol Biol Cell, 18, 4711-4720.  
17470637 C.V.Sindelar, and K.H.Downing (2007).
The beginning of kinesin's force-generating cycle visualized at 9-A resolution.
  J Cell Biol, 177, 377-385.
PDB code: 2p4n
17218254 D.A.Keays, G.Tian, K.Poirier, G.J.Huang, C.Siebold, J.Cleak, P.L.Oliver, M.Fray, R.J.Harvey, Z.Molnár, M.C.Piñon, N.Dear, W.Valdar, S.D.Brown, K.E.Davies, J.N.Rawlins, N.J.Cowan, P.Nolan, J.Chelly, and J.Flint (2007).
Mutations in alpha-tubulin cause abnormal neuronal migration in mice and lissencephaly in humans.
  Cell, 128, 45-57.  
17530726 E.Galletti, M.Magnani, M.L.Renzulli, and M.Botta (2007).
Paclitaxel And Docetaxel Resistance: Molecular Mechanisms and Development of New Generation Taxanes.
  ChemMedChem, 2, 920-942.  
17563102 H.P.Erickson (2007).
Evolution of the cytoskeleton.
  Bioessays, 29, 668-677.  
17627938 H.Yang, and F.Cabral (2007).
Heightened sensitivity to paclitaxel in Class IVa beta-tubulin-transfected cells is lost as expression increases.
  J Biol Chem, 282, 27058-27066.  
18075579 J.A.Wells, and C.L.McClendon (2007).
Reaching for high-hanging fruit in drug discovery at protein-protein interfaces.
  Nature, 450, 1001-1009.  
17460120 J.J.Miranda, D.S.King, and S.C.Harrison (2007).
Protein arms in the kinetochore-microtubule interface of the yeast DASH complex.
  Mol Biol Cell, 18, 2503-2510.  
  19455242 J.T.Huzil, K.Chen, L.Kurgan, and J.A.Tuszynski (2007).
The Roles of beta-Tubulin Mutations and Isotype Expression in Acquired Drug Resistance.
  Cancer Inform, 3, 159-181.  
17390000 K.H.Altmann, and J.Gertsch (2007).
Anticancer drugs from nature--natural products as a unique source of new microtubule-stabilizing agents.
  Nat Prod Rep, 24, 327-357.  
17387011 K.H.Downing, and H.Sui (2007).
Structural insights into microtubule doublet interactions in axonemes.
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17043359 K.M.Chung, H.H.Hsu, H.Y.Yeh, and B.Y.Chang (2007).
Mechanism of regulation of prokaryotic tubulin-like GTPase FtsZ by membrane protein EzrA.
  J Biol Chem, 282, 14891-14897.  
17584854 K.Poirier, D.A.Keays, F.Francis, Y.Saillour, N.Bahi, S.Manouvrier, C.Fallet-Bianco, L.Pasquier, A.Toutain, F.P.Tuy, T.Bienvenu, S.Joriot, S.Odent, D.Ville, I.Desguerre, A.Goldenberg, M.L.Moutard, J.P.Fryns, H.van Esch, R.J.Harvey, C.Siebold, J.Flint, C.Beldjord, and J.Chelly (2007).
Large spectrum of lissencephaly and pachygyria phenotypes resulting from de novo missense mutations in tubulin alpha 1A (TUBA1A).
  Hum Mutat, 28, 1055-1064.  
17989090 L.A.Amos, and K.Hirose (2007).
A cool look at the structural changes in kinesin motor domains.
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17563362 M.Mishima, R.Maesaki, M.Kasa, T.Watanabe, M.Fukata, K.Kaibuchi, and T.Hakoshima (2007).
Structural basis for tubulin recognition by cytoplasmic linker protein 170 and its autoinhibition.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104, 10346-10351.
PDB codes: 2e3h 2e3i 2e4h
17323373 M.Prager-Khoutorsky, I.Goncharov, A.Rabinkov, D.Mirelman, B.Geiger, and A.D.Bershadsky (2007).
Allicin inhibits cell polarization, migration and division via its direct effect on microtubules.
  Cell Motil Cytoskeleton, 64, 321-337.  
17056728 P.Drabik, S.Gusarov, and A.Kovalenko (2007).
Microtubule stability studied by three-dimensional molecular theory of solvation.
  Biophys J, 92, 394-403.  
17510284 R.A.Larsen, C.Cusumano, A.Fujioka, G.Lim-Fong, P.Patterson, and J.Pogliano (2007).
Treadmilling of a prokaryotic tubulin-like protein, TubZ, required for plasmid stability in Bacillus thuringiensis.
  Genes Dev, 21, 1340-1352.  
17552983 R.A.Zufall, and L.A.Katz (2007).
Micronuclear and macronuclear forms of beta-tubulin genes in the ciliate Chilodonella uncinata reveal insights into genome processing and protein evolution.
  J Eukaryot Microbiol, 54, 275-282.  
17263521 T.Ganesh, C.Yang, A.Norris, T.Glass, S.Bane, R.Ravindra, A.Banerjee, B.Metaferia, S.L.Thomas, P.Giannakakou, A.A.Alcaraz, A.S.Lakdawala, J.P.Snyder, and D.G.Kingston (2007).
Evaluation of the tubulin-bound paclitaxel conformation: synthesis, biology, and SAR studies of C-4 to C-3' bridged paclitaxel analogues.
  J Med Chem, 50, 713-725.  
17488810 T.Ishida, Y.Kaneko, M.Iwano, and T.Hashimoto (2007).
Helical microtubule arrays in a collection of twisting tubulin mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104, 8544-8549.  
17438074 T.Oda, N.Hirokawa, and M.Kikkawa (2007).
Three-dimensional structures of the flagellar dynein-microtubule complex by cryoelectron microscopy.
  J Cell Biol, 177, 243-252.  
17499915 X.Zhang, F.Yang, J.Y.Shim, K.L.Kirk, D.E.Anderson, and X.Chen (2007).
Identification of arsenic-binding proteins in human breast cancer cells.
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17212416 Y.Paik, C.Yang, B.Metaferia, S.Tang, S.Bane, R.Ravindra, N.Shanker, A.A.Alcaraz, S.A.Johnson, J.Schaefer, R.D.O'Connor, L.Cegelski, J.P.Snyder, and D.G.Kingston (2007).
Rotational-echo double-resonance NMR distance measurements for the tubulin-bound Paclitaxel conformation.
  J Am Chem Soc, 129, 361-370.  
18728696 Y.Shin, J.H.Fournier, A.Brückner, C.Madiraju, R.Balachandran, B.S.Raccor, M.C.Edler, E.Hamel, R.P.Sikorski, A.Vogt, B.W.Day, and D.P.Curran (2007).
Synthesis and biological evaluation of (-)-dictyostatin and stereoisomers.
  Tetrahedron, 63, 8537-8562.  
16371510 A.Fourest-Lieuvin, L.Peris, V.Gache, I.Garcia-Saez, C.Juillan-Binard, V.Lantez, and D.Job (2006).
Microtubule regulation in mitosis: tubulin phosphorylation by the cyclin-dependent kinase Cdk1.
  Mol Biol Cell, 17, 1041-1050.  
17193124 A.K.Boal, H.Tellez, S.B.Rivera, N.E.Miller, G.D.Bachand, and B.C.Bunker (2006).
The stability and functionality of chemically crosslinked microtubules.
  Small, 2, 793-803.  
16362723 A.Marx, J.Müller, E.M.Mandelkow, A.Hoenger, and E.Mandelkow (2006).
Interaction of kinesin motors, microtubules, and MAPs.
  J Muscle Res Cell Motil, 27, 125-137.  
16941085 E.J.Carpenter, J.T.Huzil, R.F.Ludueña, and J.A.Tuszynski (2006).
Homology modeling of tubulin: influence predictions for microtubule's biophysical properties.
  Eur Biophys J, 36, 35-43.  
16495041 E.Nogales, and H.W.Wang (2006).
Structural intermediates in microtubule assembly and disassembly: how and why?
  Curr Opin Cell Biol, 18, 179-184.  
16549346 E.Nogales, and H.W.Wang (2006).
Structural mechanisms underlying nucleotide-dependent self-assembly of tubulin and its relatives.
  Curr Opin Struct Biol, 16, 221-229.  
16801540 H.Xiao, P.Verdier-Pinard, N.Fernandez-Fuentes, B.Burd, R.Angeletti, A.Fiser, S.B.Horwitz, and G.A.Orr (2006).
Insights into the mechanism of microtubule stabilization by Taxol.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103, 10166-10173.  
16893427 I.Divinski, M.Holtser-Cochav, I.Vulih-Schultzman, R.A.Steingart, and I.Gozes (2006).
Peptide neuroprotection through specific interaction with brain tubulin.
  J Neurochem, 98, 973-984.  
17130449 J.Liu, and J.N.Onuchic (2006).
A driving and coupling "Pac-Man" mechanism for chromosome poleward translocation in anaphase A.
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16756499 K.A.Michie, and J.Löwe (2006).
Dynamic filaments of the bacterial cytoskeleton.
  Annu Rev Biochem, 75, 467-492.  
16973442 K.Hirose, E.Akimaru, T.Akiba, S.A.Endow, and L.A.Amos (2006).
Large conformational changes in a kinesin motor catalyzed by interaction with microtubules.
  Mol Cell, 23, 913-923.  
16946706 M.Kikkawa, and N.Hirokawa (2006).
High-resolution cryo-EM maps show the nucleotide binding pocket of KIF1A in open and closed conformations.
  EMBO J, 25, 4187-4194.
PDB codes: 2hxf 2hxh
16803461 M.Magnani, F.Ortuso, S.Soro, S.Alcaro, A.Tramontano, and M.Botta (2006).
The betaI/betaIII-tubulin isoforms and their complexes with antimitotic agents. Docking and molecular dynamics studies.
  FEBS J, 273, 3301-3310.  
17181022 S.Jeong, and J.A.Hollingsworth (2006).
Polymerization of nanocrystal quantum dot-tubulin bioconjugates.
  IEEE Trans Nanobioscience, 5, 239-245.  
16928054 S.Tang, C.Yang, P.Brodie, S.Bane, R.Ravindra, S.Sharma, Y.Jiang, J.P.Snyder, and D.G.Kingston (2006).
Bridging converts a noncytotoxic nor-paclitaxel derivative to a cytotoxic analogue by constraining it to the T-Taxol conformation.
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16266809 Y.J.Kim, D.L.Sackett, M.Schapira, D.P.Walsh, J.Min, L.K.Pannell, and Y.T.Chang (2006).
Identification of 12Cysbeta on tubulin as the binding site of tubulyzine.
  Bioorg Med Chem, 14, 1169-1175.  
16959967 Y.L.Shih, and L.Rothfield (2006).
The bacterial cytoskeleton.
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16554299 Y.Wang, G.Tian, N.J.Cowan, and F.Cabral (2006).
Mutations affecting beta-tubulin folding and degradation.
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16184388 A.Priel, J.A.Tuszynski, and N.J.Woolf (2005).
Transitions in microtubule C-termini conformations as a possible dendritic signaling phenomenon.
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15781712 C.Lu, and P.E.Mains (2005).
Mutations of a redundant alpha-tubulin gene affect Caenorhabditis elegans early embryonic cleavage via MEI-1/katanin-dependent and -independent pathways.
  Genetics, 170, 115-126.  
16100275 D.J.Needleman, M.A.Ojeda-Lopez, U.Raviv, K.Ewert, H.P.Miller, L.Wilson, and C.R.Safinya (2005).
Radial compression of microtubules and the mechanism of action of taxol and associated proteins.
  Biophys J, 89, 3410-3423.  
15967998 D.Schlieper, M.A.Oliva, J.M.Andreu, and J.Löwe (2005).
Structure of bacterial tubulin BtubA/B: evidence for horizontal gene transfer.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102, 9170-9175.
PDB codes: 2bto 2btq
15714588 D.W.Heinz, W.D.Schubert, and G.Höfle (2005).
Much anticipated--the bioactive conformation of epothilone and its binding to tubulin.
  Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 44, 1298-1301.  
16080206 E.M.Popodi, H.D.Hoyle, F.R.Turner, and E.C.Raff (2005).
The proximal region of the beta-tubulin C-terminal tail is sufficient for axoneme assembly.
  Cell Motil Cytoskeleton, 62, 48-64.  
15593343 G.R.Criel, P.Van Oostveldt, and T.H.MacRae (2005).
Spatial organization and isotubulin composition of microtubules in epidermal tendon cells of Artemia franciscana.
  J Morphol, 263, 203-215.  
15887183 G.Tedeschi, G.Cappelletti, A.Negri, L.Pagliato, M.G.Maggioni, R.Maci, and S.Ronchi (2005).
Characterization of nitroproteome in neuron-like PC12 cells differentiated with nerve growth factor: identification of two nitration sites in alpha-tubulin.
  Proteomics, 5, 2422-2432.  
15917813 H.Aldaz, L.M.Rice, T.Stearns, and D.A.Agard (2005).
Insights into microtubule nucleation from the crystal structure of human gamma-tubulin.
  Nature, 435, 523-527.
PDB codes: 1z5v 1z5w
15959508 H.W.Wang, and E.Nogales (2005).
Nucleotide-dependent bending flexibility of tubulin regulates microtubule assembly.
  Nature, 435, 911-915.  
15864724 J.A.Tuszyński, T.Luchko, S.Portet, and J.M.Dixon (2005).
Anisotropic elastic properties of microtubules.
  Eur Phys J E Soft Matter, 17, 29-35.  
15770509 J.T.Juuti, S.Jokela, M.T.Tarkka, L.Paulin, and J.Lahdensalo (2005).
Two phylogenetically highly distinct beta-tubulin genes of the basidiomycete Suillus bovinus.
  Curr Genet, 47, 253-263.  
16228897 L.Libusová, T.Sulimenko, V.Sulimenko, R.Janisch, P.Hozák, and P.Dráber (2005).
Distinct localization of a beta-tubulin epitope in the Tetrahymena thermophila and Paramecium caudatum cortex.
  Protoplasma, 225, 157-167.  
15616834 S.L.Cunningham, A.R.Cunningham, and B.W.Day (2005).
CoMFA, HQSAR and molecular docking studies of butitaxel analogues with beta-tubulin.
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15492004 V.Redeker, N.Levilliers, E.Vinolo, J.Rossier, D.Jaillard, D.Burnette, J.Gaertig, and M.H.Bré (2005).
Mutations of tubulin glycylation sites reveal cross-talk between the C termini of alpha- and beta-tubulin and affect the ciliary matrix in Tetrahymena.
  J Biol Chem, 280, 596-606.  
15558583 Y.Qi, and N.V.Grishin (2005).
Structural classification of thioredoxin-like fold proteins.
  Proteins, 58, 376-388.  
15864652 Z.Venkei, and J.Szabad (2005).
The Kavar(D) dominant female-sterile mutations of Drosophila reveal a role for the maternally provided alpha-tubulin4 isoform in cleavage spindle maintenance and elongation.
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15634091 A.A.Tulub, and V.E.Stefanov (2004).
Activation of tubulin assembly into microtubules upon a series of repeated femtosecond laser impulses.
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15200960 C.A.Moores, M.Perderiset, F.Francis, J.Chelly, A.Houdusse, and R.A.Milligan (2004).
Mechanism of microtubule stabilization by doublecortin.
  Mol Cell, 14, 833-839.  
14691218 D.K.Fygenson, D.J.Needleman, and K.Sneppen (2004).
Variability-based sequence alignment identifies residues responsible for functional differences in alpha and beta tubulin.
  Protein Sci, 13, 25-31.  
14871951 F.Ruiz, P.Dupuis-Williams, C.Klotz, F.Forquignon, M.Bergdoll, J.Beisson, and F.Koll (2004).
Genetic evidence for interaction between eta- and beta-tubulins.
  Eukaryot Cell, 3, 212-220.  
15003198 H.K.Berrieman, M.J.Lind, and L.Cawkwell (2004).
Do beta-tubulin mutations have a role in resistance to chemotherapy?
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15297674 J.H.Nettles, H.Li, B.Cornett, J.M.Krahn, J.P.Snyder, and K.H.Downing (2004).
The binding mode of epothilone A on alpha,beta-tubulin by electron crystallography.
  Science, 305, 866-869.
PDB code: 1tvk
15139810 J.Löwe, F.van den Ent, and L.A.Amos (2004).
Molecules of the bacterial cytoskeleton.
  Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct, 33, 177-198.  
14657251 J.L.Paluh, A.N.Killilea, H.W.Detrich, and K.H.Downing (2004).
Meiosis-specific failure of cell cycle progression in fission yeast by mutation of a conserved beta-tubulin residue.
  Mol Biol Cell, 15, 1160-1171.  
15029249 K.Shipley, M.Hekmat-Nejad, J.Turner, C.Moores, R.Anderson, R.Milligan, R.Sakowicz, and R.Fletterick (2004).
Structure of a kinesin microtubule depolymerization machine.
  EMBO J, 23, 1422-1432.
PDB code: 1ry6
15558053 M.A.Oliva, S.C.Cordell, and J.Löwe (2004).
Structural insights into FtsZ protofilament formation.
  Nat Struct Mol Biol, 11, 1243-1250.
PDB codes: 1w58 1w59 1w5a 1w5b 1w5e 1w5f
15175652 N.Mizuno, S.Toba, M.Edamatsu, J.Watai-Nishii, N.Hirokawa, Y.Y.Toyoshima, and M.Kikkawa (2004).
Dynein and kinesin share an overlapping microtubule-binding site.
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14742718 N.S.Morrissette, A.Mitra, D.Sept, and L.D.Sibley (2004).
Dinitroanilines bind alpha-tubulin to disrupt microtubules.
  Mol Biol Cell, 15, 1960-1968.  
15014504 R.B.Ravelli, B.Gigant, P.A.Curmi, I.Jourdain, S.Lachkar, A.Sobel, and M.Knossow (2004).
Insight into tubulin regulation from a complex with colchicine and a stathmin-like domain.
  Nature, 428, 198-202.
PDB codes: 1sa0 1sa1
15123284 R.M.Buey, J.F.Díaz, J.M.Andreu, A.O'Brate, P.Giannakakou, K.C.Nicolaou, P.K.Sasmal, A.Ritzén, and K.Namoto (2004).
Interaction of epothilone analogs with the paclitaxel binding site: relationship between binding affinity, microtubule stabilization, and cytotoxicity.
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15286375 R.Nitta, M.Kikkawa, Y.Okada, and N.Hirokawa (2004).
KIF1A alternately uses two loops to bind microtubules.
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PDB codes: 1vfv 1vfw 1vfx 1vfz
14691224 S.A.Sánchez, J.E.Brunet, D.M.Jameson, R.Lagos, and O.Monasterio (2004).
Tubulin equilibrium unfolding followed by time-resolved fluorescence and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
  Protein Sci, 13, 81-88.  
15226503 T.Ganesh, R.C.Guza, S.Bane, R.Ravindra, N.Shanker, A.S.Lakdawala, J.P.Snyder, and D.G.Kingston (2004).
The bioactive Taxol conformation on beta-tubulin: experimental evidence from highly active constrained analogs.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 101, 10006-10011.  
12634795 A.Sali, R.Glaeser, T.Earnest, and W.Baumeister (2003).
From words to literature in structural proteomics.
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14662742 C.A.Moores, M.Hekmat-Nejad, R.Sakowicz, and R.A.Milligan (2003).
Regulation of KinI kinesin ATPase activity by binding to the microtubule lattice.
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14500883 D.Sept, N.A.Baker, and J.A.McCammon (2003).
The physical basis of microtubule structure and stability.
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12496245 J.F.Díaz, I.Barasoain, and J.M.Andreu (2003).
Fast kinetics of Taxol binding to microtubules. Effects of solution variables and microtubule-associated proteins.
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12740436 M.L.Gupta, C.J.Bode, G.I.Georg, and R.H.Himes (2003).
Understanding tubulin-Taxol interactions: mutations that impart Taxol binding to yeast tubulin.
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12933789 S.Huecas, and J.M.Andreu (2003).
Energetics of the cooperative assembly of cell division protein FtsZ and the nucleotide hydrolysis switch.
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12505985 S.Kar, J.Fan, M.J.Smith, M.Goedert, and L.A.Amos (2003).
Repeat motifs of tau bind to the insides of microtubules in the absence of taxol.
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12933799 S.Nagano, H.Li, H.Shimizu, C.Nishida, H.Ogura, P.R.Ortiz de Montellano, and T.L.Poulos (2003).
Crystal structures of epothilone D-bound, epothilone B-bound, and substrate-free forms of cytochrome P450epoK.
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PDB codes: 1pkf 1q5d 1q5e
12821479 T.Lila, T.E.Renau, L.Wilson, J.Philips, G.Natsoulis, M.J.Cope, W.J.Watkins, and J.Buysse (2003).
Molecular basis for fungal selectivity of novel antimitotic compounds.
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12486237 C.Jenkins, R.Samudrala, I.Anderson, B.P.Hedlund, G.Petroni, N.Michailova, N.Pinel, R.Overbeek, G.Rosati, and J.T.Staley (2002).
Genes for the cytoskeletal protein tubulin in the bacterial genus Prosthecobacter.
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12119025 D.E.Pryor, A.O'Brate, G.Bilcer, J.F.Díaz, Y.Wang, Y.Wang, M.Kabaki, M.K.Jung, J.M.Andreu, A.K.Ghosh, P.Giannakakou, and E.Hamel (2002).
The microtubule stabilizing agent laulimalide does not bind in the taxoid site, kills cells resistant to paclitaxel and epothilones, and may not require its epoxide moiety for activity.
  Biochemistry, 41, 9109-9115.  
12495847 E.Mandelkow, and E.M.Mandelkow (2002).
Kinesin motors and disease.
  Trends Cell Biol, 12, 585-591.  
12215443 J.M.Andreu, M.A.Oliva, and O.Monasterio (2002).
Reversible unfolding of FtsZ cell division proteins from archaea and bacteria. Comparison with eukaryotic tubulin folding and assembly.
  J Biol Chem, 277, 43262-43270.  
12023292 P.J.Britto, L.Knipling, and J.Wolff (2002).
The local electrostatic environment determines cysteine reactivity of tubulin.
  J Biol Chem, 277, 29018-29027.  
12473123 S.Pucciarelli, C.Miceli, and R.Melki (2002).
Heterologous expression and folding analysis of a beta-tubulin isotype from the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii.
  Eur J Biochem, 269, 6271-6277.  
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