Structure and Phosphorylation of Microtubule-associated Protein 2 (MAP 2)

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Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1980 Jun 1

PMID 6251448

Citations 56

Authors

R Vallee

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Abstract

Chymotryptic fragments of microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP 2) containing the portion of the molecule responsible for promoting microtubule assembly were identified. These assembly-promoting fragments displaced intact MAP 2, but not MAP 1, from assembled microtubules. This indicates that the association of MAP 2 with the microtubule surface is reversible. Both the assembly-promoting fragments and fragments representing the portion of the MAP 2 molecule observed as a projection on the microtubule surface were found to contain sites for endogenous cyclic AMP-dependent phosphorylation. The projection fragments were capable of endogenous phosphorylation even after their physical separation from microtubules. This suggests an intimate association of a kinase activity with the projections. Detailed analysis of the properties of the chymotryptic fragments of MAP 2 has led to a map of the molecule showing the major sites of proteolytic attack and the sites of phosphorylation.

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