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Tubulin microtubules are essential cytoskeletal filaments, with diverse and critical functions at all stages of the cell cycle. Tubulin dimers, which serve as main building blocks for microtubules, can self-assemble and disassemble, depending on the phosphorylation state of associated nucleotide. Tubulins bound to guanosine triphosphate (GTP) make stable microtubule lattice, but when the GTP molecules lose their γ-phosphates, microtubules become prone to depolymerization. The relationship between tubulin conformation and GTP hydrolysis is still poorly understood. Recent progress in cryo-electron microscopy and related data analysis methods have brought new critical insights into the nucleotide-dependent structure of microtubule lattice (Alushin et al., Cell, 2014; Manka et al., Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 2018; Zhang et al., PNAS, 2018). However, supplementary methods are needed to bridge static cryo-electron microscopy-based structures with microtubule dynamic instability. Here we use all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to examine relaxed conformations and mechanical properties of tubulin dimers, extracted from cryo- electron microscopy-based tubulin structures of different generations. This analysis enables us to draw conclusions about the mechanism for microtubule dynamic instability.
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1. | Краткий текст | тезисы | ijbm_2019_9_s1_or5.pdf | 322,9 КБ | 28 августа 2019 [Fedorov_VA] |