TTLL10 can perform tubulin glycylation when co-expressed with TTLL8

FEBS Lett. 2009 Jun 18;583(12):1957-63. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.05.003. Epub 2009 May 8.

Abstract

Tubulin can undergo unusual post-translational modifications, glycylation and glutamylation. We previously failed to find glycylase (glycine ligase) for tubulin while identifying TTLL10 as a polyglycylase for nucleosome assembly protein 1. We here examine whether TTLL10 performs tubulin glycylation. We used a polyclonal antibody (R-polygly) raised against a poly(glycine) chain, which does not recognize monoglycylated protein. R-polygly strongly reacted with mouse tracheal cilia and axonemal tubulins. R-polygly detected many proteins in cell lysates co-expressing TTLL10 with TTLL8. Two-dimensional electrophoresis revealed that the R-polygly-reactive proteins included alpha- and beta-tubulin. R-polygly labeling signals overlapped with microtubules. These results indicate that TTLL10 can strongly glycylate tubulin in a TTLL8-dependent manner. Furthermore, these two TTLL proteins can glycylate unidentified 170-, 110-, 75-, 40-, 35-, and 30-kDa acidic proteins.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibody Specificity
  • Axoneme / metabolism
  • COS Cells
  • Chlorocebus aethiops
  • Cilia / metabolism
  • Gene Expression
  • Glycosylation
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Mice
  • Microtubules / metabolism
  • Peptide Synthases / classification
  • Peptide Synthases / genetics
  • Peptide Synthases / metabolism*
  • Phylogeny
  • Protein Processing, Post-Translational
  • Recombinant Proteins / genetics
  • Recombinant Proteins / metabolism
  • Trachea / metabolism
  • Tubulin / chemistry
  • Tubulin / immunology
  • Tubulin / metabolism*

Substances

  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Tubulin
  • Peptide Synthases
  • tubulin polyglutamylase