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Record W1978783601 · doi:10.1002/mrd.10086

Differential distribution of glutamylated tubulin isoforms along the sea urchin sperm axoneme

2002· article· en· W1978783601 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMolecular Reproduction and Development · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMicrotubule and mitosis dynamics
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityRoyal Victoria Hospital
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsAxonemeBiologyTubulinFlagellumSea urchinCell biologyMicrotubuleMotilitySpermGene isoformGeneticsGene

Abstract

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Tubulin belongs to a highly conserved multigenic family, in which several gene products usually coexist in the same tissue or the same cell. Moreover, seven classes of post-translational modifications of these gene products lead to an amazing diversity of tubulin polypeptide chains, within the same cell type, whose physiological function remains elusive. Such diversity has been found in a very stable microtubular organelle, the sea urchin sperm flagellum, where some tubulin isoforms have been directly implicated in motility, whereas others may play a more structural role. In particular, polyglutamylated tubulin has been shown to be crucial for motility (Gagnon et al., 1996: J Cell Sci 109:1545 p). Here, we show with the GT335 antibody that polyglutamylated tubulin is distributed according to a decreasing gradient along the sea urchin sperm axoneme, since a semi-quantitative measurement of immunofluorescence intensity reveals that in its proximal half, the axoneme is sixfold more labeled than in its distal half. This gradient along the length of the axoneme is confirmed by immunogold labeling procedures which, in addition, demonstrate a uniform distribution of polyglutamylated tubulin among peripheral doublets and a lesser content in the central pair within a same section. Moreover, our data obtained with B3, an antibody that recognizes both mono- and poly-glutamylated tubulin, suggest that the number of glutamate residues in the lateral poly-glutamyl chain of tubulin varies along the whole length of the axoneme. These novel results coupled with those published earlier may be important to understand the role of polyglutamylation in flagellar motility.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.064
Threshold uncertainty score0.445

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.206
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it