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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 15, 2002, 22(6):2106-2114
Microtubule-Associated Protein 1A (MAP1A) and MAP1B: Light Chains
Determine Distinct Functional Properties
Rainer
Noiges,
René
Eichinger,
Waltraud
Kutschera,
Irmgard
Fischer,
Zsuzsanna
Németh,
Gerhard
Wiche, and
Friedrich
Propst
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Vienna
Biocenter, University of Vienna, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
The microtubule-associated proteins 1A (MAP1A) and 1B (MAP1B) are
distantly related protein complexes consisting of heavy and light
chains and are thought to play a role in regulating the neuronal
cytoskeleton, MAP1B during neuritogenesis and MAP1A in mature neurons.
To elucidate functional differences between MAP1B and MAP1A and to
determine the role of the light chain in the MAP1A protein complex, we
chose to investigate the functional properties of the light chain of
MAP1A (LC2) and compare them with the light chain of MAP1B (LC1). We
found that LC2 binds to microtubules in vivo and
in vitro and induces rapid polymerization of tubulin. A
microtubule-binding domain in its NH2 terminus was found to
be necessary and sufficient for these activities. The analysis of LC1
revealed that it too bound to microtubules and induced tubulin
polymerization via a crucial but structurally unrelated
NH2-terminal domain. The two light chains differed, however, in their effects on microtubule bundling and stability in vivo. Furthermore, we identified actin filament
binding domains located at the COOH terminus of LC2 and LC1 and
obtained evidence that binding to actin filaments is
attributable to direct interaction with actin. Our findings
establish LC2 as a crucial determinant of MAP1A function, reveal LC2 as
a potential linker of neuronal microtubules and microfilaments, and
suggest that the postnatal substitution of MAP1B by MAP1A leads to
expression of a protein with an overlapping but distinct set of functions.
Key words:
actin; brain development; microtubule-associated
proteins; microtubule stability; neuronal cytoskeleton; tubulin
polymerization
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/2262106-09$05.00/0
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