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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
21
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-6
pubmed:abstractText
Long-distance intracellular delivery is driven by kinesin and dynein motor proteins that ferry cargoes along microtubule tracks . Current models postulate that directional trafficking is governed by known biophysical properties of these motors-kinesins generally move to the plus ends of microtubules in the cell periphery, whereas cytoplasmic dynein moves to the minus ends in the cell center. However, these models are insufficient to explain how polarized protein trafficking to subcellular domains is accomplished. We show that the kinesin-1 cargo protein JNK-interacting protein 1 (JIP1) is localized to only a subset of neurites in cultured neuronal cells. The mechanism of polarized trafficking appears to involve the preferential recognition of microtubules containing specific posttranslational modifications (PTMs) by the kinesin-1 motor domain. Using a genetic approach to eliminate specific PTMs, we show that the loss of a single modification, alpha-tubulin acetylation at Lys-40, influences the binding and motility of kinesin-1 in vitro. In addition, pharmacological treatments that increase microtubule acetylation cause a redirection of kinesin-1 transport of JIP1 to nearly all neurite tips in vivo. These results suggest that microtubule PTMs are important markers of distinct microtubule populations and that they act to control motor-protein trafficking.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0960-9822
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2166-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Acetylation, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-COS Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Drosophila, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Dyneins, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-HeLa Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Kinesin, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Luminescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Microtubules, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Neurites, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Protein Processing, Post-Translational, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Protein Transport, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Tetrahymena, pubmed-meshheading:17084703-Tubulin
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Microtubule acetylation promotes kinesin-1 binding and transport.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural