期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1980
卷号：77
期号：6
页码：3206-3210
DOI：10.1073/pnas.77.6.3206
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Chymotryptic fragments of microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP 2) containing the portion of the molecule responsible for promoting microtubule assembly were identified. These assembly-promoting fragments displaced intact MAP 2, but not MAP 1, from assembled microtubules. This indicates that the association of MAP 2 with the microtubule surface is reversible. Both the assembly-promoting fragments and fragments representing the portion of the MAP 2 molecule observed as a projection on the microtubule surface were found to contain sites for endogenous cyclic AMP-dependent phosphorylation. The projection fragments were capable of endogenous phosphorylation even after their physical separation from microtubules. This suggests an intimate association of a kinase activity with the projections. Detailed analysis of the properties of the chymotryptic fragments of MAP 2 has led to a map of the molecule showing the major sites of proteolytic attack and the sites of phosphorylation.
