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ArticleBMC research notes2012

Rationalization of paclitaxel insensitivity of yeast β-tubulin and human βIII-tubulin isotype using principal component analysis.

Lalita Das, Bhabatarak Bhattacharya, Gautam Basu

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Article in BMC research notes, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Lalita DasDepartment of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 70054, India.
Bhabatarak Bhattacharya
Gautam Basu
Bose Institute · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe chemotherapeutic agent paclitaxel arrests cell division by binding to the hetero-dimeric protein tubulin. Subtle differences in tubulin sequences, across eukaryotes and among β-tubulin isotypes, can have profound impact on paclitaxel-tubulin binding. To capture the experimentally observed paclitaxel-resistance of human βIII tubulin isotype and yeast β-tubulin, within a common theoretical framework, we have performed structural principal component analyses of β-tubulin sequences across eukaryotes.

resultsThe paclitaxel-resistance of human βIII tubulin isotype and yeast β-tubulin uniquely mapped on to the lowest two principal components, defining the paclitaxel-binding site residues of β-tubulin. The molecular mechanisms behind paclitaxel-resistance, mediated through key residues, were identified from structural consequences of characteristic mutations that confer paclitaxel-resistance. Specifically, Ala277 in βIII isotype was shown to be crucial for paclitaxel-resistance.

conclusionsThe present analysis captures the origin of two apparently unrelated events, paclitaxel-insensitivity of yeast tubulin and human βIII tubulin isotype, through two common collective sequence vectors.

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AlanineAmino Acid SequenceAntineoplastic AgentsBinding SitesDrug Resistance, NeoplasmFungal ProteinsHumansModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMutationNeoplasm ProteinsPaclitaxelPlantsPrincipal Component AnalysisProtein BindingProtein IsoformsAlanineAntineoplastic AgentsFungal ProteinsNeoplasm ProteinsPaclitaxelProtein IsoformsTubulin

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PMID22849332
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