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  • Title: Tau-isoform dependent enhancement of taxol mobility through microtubules.
    Author: Park H, Kim M, Fygenson DK.
    Journal: Arch Biochem Biophys; 2008 Oct 01; 478(1):119-26. PubMed ID: 18691553.
    Abstract:
    Tau, a family of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs), stabilizes microtubules (MTs) and regulates their dynamics. Tau isoforms regulate MT dynamic instability differently: 3-repeat tau is less effective than 4-repeat tau at suppressing the disassembly of MTs. Here, we report another tau-isoform-dependent phenomenon, revealed by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements on a BODIPY-conjugated taxol bound to MTs. Saturating levels of recombinant full-length 3-repeat and 4-repeat tau both cause taxol mobility to be remarkably sensitive to taxol concentration. However, 3-repeat tau induces 2.5-fold faster recovery ( approximately 450s) at low taxol concentrations ( approximately 100 nM) than 4-repeat tau ( approximately 1000 s), indicating that 3-repeat tau decreases the probability of taxol rebinding to its site in the MT lumen. Finding no tau-induced change in the MT-binding affinity of taxol, we conclude that 3-repeat tau either competes for the taxol binding site with an affinity of approximately 1 microM or alters the MT structure so as to facilitate the passage of taxol through pores in the MT wall.
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