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XB-ART-18527
Cell 1996 Feb 23;844:623-31. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81037-5.
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Identification of a protein that interacts with tubulin dimers and increases the catastrophe rate of microtubules.

Belmont LD , Mitchison TJ .


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Using a polymerization inhibition assay, we have purified a small, heat stable protein that physically interacts with tubulin dimers and increases the catastrophe rate of microtubules. Sequence analysis identified this protein as oncoprotein 18 (Op18)/stathmin, a conserved phosphoprotein that is highly expressed in leukemia cells. Immunodepletion experiments in Xenopus egg extracts showed that Op18/stathmin is involved in physiological regulation of mitotic microtubule dynamics. Op18/stathmin is a microtubule regulator that preferentially interacts with unpolymerized subunits. It is a candidate for increasing the microtubule catastrophe rate in mitosis and might also regulate microtubule dynamics in response to external signals.

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