title: [3H](azidophenyl)ureido taxoid photolabels peptide amino acids 281-304 of alpha-tubulin.
abstract: The taxoid binding site on porcine brain tubulin was covalently labeled, in the presence or absence of Taxotere, with the photoaffinity reagent [3H]-p-(azidophenyl)ureido taxoid derivative [3H]TaxAPU [Combeau, C., Commercon, A., Mioskowski, C., Rousseau, B., Aubert, F., & Goeldner, M. (1994) Biochemistry 33, 6676-6683]. After disulfide reduction and carboxymethylation, the alkylated tubulin samples were treated with trypsin and the mixtures of peptides were first fractionated by gel filtration over Sephadex G50. Anion exchange chromatography of the radioactive areas showed, for one area, three major radioactive signals which were further analyzed by reversed phase C18 HPLC, leading to well-resolved radioactive peaks. Microsequencing of these different peaks gave a complete sequence of a tryptic fragment on alpha-tubulin (alpha-281-304) and two partial peptide sequences of a tryptic fragment on beta-tubulin (beta-217-229) in addition to sequences of mixture of peptides. The radioactive signals were lost while concentrating the samples for microsequencing, preventing the identification of the modified amino acids. These results identify the first peptide on alpha-tubulin which binds to the taxoids and confirm the involvement of both alpha- and beta-tubulin in the taxoid binding site.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Bio-organique, URA 1386 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, Illkirch, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Loeb
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Combeau
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ehret-Sabatier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Breton-Gilet
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Faucher
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rousseau
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Commerçon
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goeldner
mesh_terms: D000345:Affinity Labels / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D001386:Azides / Q000378:metabolism*; D001665:Binding Sites; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D000077143:Docetaxel; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D017239:Paclitaxel / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D013552:Swine; D043823:Taxoids; D014357:Trypsin / Q000378:metabolism; D014404:Tubulin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000345:Affinity Labels; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic; D001386:Azides; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D043823:Taxoids; D014404:Tubulin; C087617:((azidophenyl)ureido)taxoid; D000077143:Docetaxel; D014357:Trypsin; D017239:Paclitaxel