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Vol. 11, Issue 5, 1887-1903, May 2000

Structure-Function Relationships in Yeast Tubulins

Kristy L. Richards,*dagger Kirk R. Anders,*dagger Eva Nogales,Dagger § Katja Schwartz,* Kenneth H. Downing,§ and David Botstein*||

 *Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305;  Dagger Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720; and  §Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720

A comprehensive set of clustered charged-to-alanine mutations was generated that systematically alter TUB1, the major alpha -tubulin gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A variety of phenotypes were observed, including supersensitivity and resistance to the microtubule-destabilizing drug benomyl, lethality, and cold- and temperature-sensitive lethality. Many of the most benomyl-sensitive tub1 alleles were synthetically lethal in combination with tub3Delta , supporting the idea that benomyl supersensitivity is a rough measure of microtubule instability and/or insufficiency in the amount of alpha -tubulin. The systematic tub1 mutations were placed, along with the comparable set of tub2 mutations previously described, onto a model of the yeast alpha -beta -tubulin dimer based on the three-dimensional structure of bovine tubulin. The modeling revealed a potential site for binding of benomyl in the core of beta -tubulin. Residues whose mutation causes cold sensitivity were concentrated at the lateral and longitudinal interfaces between adjacent subunits. Residues that affect binding of the microtubule-binding protein Bim1p form a large patch across the exterior-facing surface of alpha -tubulin in the model. Finally, the positions of the mutations suggest that proximity to the alpha -beta interface may account for the finding of synthetic lethality of five viable tub1 alleles with the benomyl-resistant but otherwise entirely viable tub2-201 allele.


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dagger These authors contributed equally to this work.

|| Corresponding author. E-mail address: botstein{at}genome.stanford.edu.


Molecular Biology of the Cell
Vol. 11, 1887-1903, May 2000
Copyright © 2000 by The American Society for Cell Biology



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