Localization of a highly divergent mammalian testicular alpha tubulin that is not detectable in brain.

Abstract:

:Sequence analysis of a mouse testicular alpha-tubulin partial cDNA, pRD alpha TT1, reveals an isotype that differs from both the somatic and the predominant testicular alpha tubulins at approximately 30% of the 212 amino acid residues determined. Although this mouse testicular cDNA retains the highly conserved sequence, Glu-Gly-Glu-Glu, found in the carboxyl termini of many alpha tubulins, the protein extends substantially beyond this sequence and does not terminate with a C-terminal tyrosine. Using rabbit antiserum prepared to a novel synthetic peptide predicted from this mouse testis alpha-tubulin cDNA, we have have detected by immunoblot and indirect immunofluorescence an antigenic epitope present in testicular alpha tubulin that is not detectable in brain alpha tubulins. We find that the antiserum specifically binds to the manchettes and meiotic spindles of the mouse testis but not with neural fibers or tubulin extracts of the adult mouse brain. These results demonstrate that at least one of the multiple alpha-tubulin isotypes of the mammalian testis is expressed and used in male germ cells but not in the brain.

journal_name

Mol Cell Biol

authors

Hecht NB,Distel RJ,Yelick PC,Tanhauser SM,Driscoll CE,Goldberg E,Tung KS

doi

10.1128/mcb.8.2.996

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1988-02-01 00:00:00

pages

996-1000

issue

2

eissn

0270-7306

issn

1098-5549

journal_volume

8

pub_type

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