Molecular Biology of the Nerve Growth Cone: A Perspective

Author(s):  
Karl H. Pfenninger
1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2948-2959 ◽  
Author(s):  
MR Wood ◽  
J DeBin ◽  
GR Strichartz ◽  
KH Pfenninger

1988 ◽  
Vol 85 (14) ◽  
pp. 5001-5005 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. F. Maness ◽  
M. Aubry ◽  
C. G. Shores ◽  
L. Frame ◽  
K. H. Pfenninger

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 2599-2608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Nègre-Aminou ◽  
Raphael A. Nemenoff ◽  
Malcolm R. Wood ◽  
B. A. De La Houssaye ◽  
K. H. Pfenninger

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (7) ◽  
pp. 1503-1513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin M. Craig ◽  
David Van Goor ◽  
Paul Forscher ◽  
Alex Mogilner

1990 ◽  
Vol 111 (5) ◽  
pp. 1959-1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
W T Matten ◽  
M Aubry ◽  
J West ◽  
P F Maness

We show here that tubulin is the major in vivo substrate of the tyrosine-specific protein kinase pp60c-src in nerve growth cone membranes. Phosphotyrosine antibodies were used to demonstrate phosphotyrosyl residues in a subpopulation of alpha- and beta-tubulin that was highly enriched in a subcellular fraction of growth cone membranes from fetal rat brain. The presence of phosphotyrosine-modified isoforms of alpha- and beta-tubulin in vivo was confirmed by 32p labeling of rat cortical neurons in culture. Tubulin in growth cone membranes was phosphorylated at tyrosine in endogenous membrane phosphorylation reactions (0.068 mol phosphotyrosine/mol alpha-tubulin and 0.045 mol phosphotyrosine/mol beta-tubulin), and phosphorylation was specifically inhibited by antibodies directed against pp60c-src, which is localized in the growth cone membranes. pp60c-src was capable of directly phosphorylating tubulin as shown in immune complex kinase assays with purified brain tubulin. Phosphopeptide mapping revealed a limited number of sites of tyrosine phosphorylation in alpha- and beta-tubulin, with similar phosphopeptides observed in vivo and in vitro. These results reveal a novel posttranslational modification of tubulin that could regulate microtubule dynamics at the growth cone.


1997 ◽  
Vol 233 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takako K. Abe ◽  
Hiroshi Tanaka ◽  
Toshihiko Iwanaga ◽  
Shoji Odani ◽  
Ryozo Kuwano

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