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  • Title: Roles of nucleoside triphosphates in microtubule assembly.
    Author: Kobayashi T, Simizu T.
    Journal: J Biochem; 1976 Jun; 79(6):1357-64. PubMed ID: 956160.
    Abstract:
    Depolymerization of microtubules in the ATP-reassembly buffer permitted the preparation of GDPETNGTP. Incubation of this tubulin fraction at 35 degrees with ATP induced the phosphorylation of E-site GDP into GTP, which was then dephosphorylated during microtubule assembly. Incubation of GDPETNGTP with phosphoenolpyruvate and pyruvate kinase [EC 2.7.1.40] also induced polymerization. Depolymerization of microtubules in the GTP-reassembly buffer yielded GTPETNGTP, which was capable of polymerizing into microtubules even in the absence of free GTP. In the presence of 4 M glycerol, GDPETNGTP assembled into microtubules with no change in the bound nucleotides.
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