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KMID : 0380220070400050723
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Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2007 Volume.40 No. 5 p.723 ~ p.730
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Cotton GhKCH2, a Plant-specific Kinesin, is Low-affinitive and Nucleotide-independent as Binding to Microtubule
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Xu Tao
Sun Xuewei
Jiang Shiling
Ren Dongtao
Liu Guoqin
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Abstract
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Kinesin is an ATP-driven microtubule motor protein that plays important roles in control of microtubule dynamics, intracellular transport, cell division and signal transduction.
The kinesin superfamily is composed of numerous members that are classified into 14 subfamilies. Animal kinesins have been well characterized. In contrast, plant kinesins have not yet to be characterized adequately. Here, a novel plant-specific kinesin gene, GhKCH2, has been cloned from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) fibers and biochemically identified by prokaryotic expression, affinity purification, ATPase activity assay and microtubulebinding analysis. The putative motor domain of GhKCH2, M396-734 corresponding to amino acids Q396-N734 was fused with 6×His-tag, soluble-expressed in E. coli and affinity-purified in a large amount. The biochemical analysis demonstrated that the basal ATPase activity of M396-734 is not activated by Ca2+, but stimulated 30-fold max by microtubules. The enzymatic activation is microtubuleconcentration-dependent, and the concentration of microtubules that corresponds to half-maximum activation was about 11 &mgr;M, much higher than that of other kinesins reported. The cosedimentation assay indicated that M396-734 could bind to microtubules in vitro whenever the nucleotide AMP-PNP is present or absent. As a plantspecific microtubule-dependent kinesin with a lower microtubule-affinity and a nucleotide-independent microtubule-binding ability, cotton GhKCH2 might be involved in the function of microtubules during the deposition of cellulose microfibrils in fibers or the formation of cell wall.
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KEYWORD
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Kinesin, Microtubule motor, ATPase activity, Cosedimentation, Microtubule binding site
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