title: Mechanical properties of doubly stabilized microtubule filaments.
abstract: Microtubules are cytoskeletal filaments responsible for cell morphology and intracellular organization. Their dynamical and mechanical properties are regulated through the nucleotide state of the tubulin dimers and the binding of drugs and/or microtubule-associated proteins. Interestingly, microtubule-stabilizing factors have differential effects on microtubule mechanics, but whether stabilizers have cumulative effects on mechanics or whether one effect dominates another is not clear. This is especially important for the chemotherapeutic drug Taxol, an important anticancer agent and the only known stabilizer that reduces the rigidity of microtubules. First, we ask whether Taxol will combine additively with another stabilizer or whether one stabilizer will dominate another. We call microtubules in the presence of Taxol and another stabilizer, doubly stabilized. Second, since Taxol is often added to a number of cell types for therapeutic purposes, it is important from a biomedical perspective to understand how Taxol added to these systems affects the mechanical properties in treated cells. To address these questions, we use the method of freely fluctuating filaments with our recently developed analysis technique of bootstrapping to determine the distribution of persistence lengths of a large population of microtubules treated with different stabilizers, including Taxol, guanosine-5' [(α, β)-methyleno] triphosphate, guanosine-5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate), tau, and MAP4. We find that combinations of these stabilizers have novel effects on the mechanical properties of microtubules.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Taviare L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Hawkins
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sept
authors.forename: Binyam
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mogessie
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Straube
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate) / Q000494:pharmacology; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D055595:Mechanical Phenomena; D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008870:Microtubules / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism*; D016011:Normal Distribution; D017239:Paclitaxel / Q000494:pharmacology; D055503:Protein Multimerization; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary; D013552:Swine; D013696:Temperature; D016875:tau Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins; D016875:tau Proteins; D016244:Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate); C004805:5'-guanylylmethylenebisphosphonate; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate; D017239:Paclitaxel
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