beta Tubulin Recombinant Mouse Monoclonal Antibody [1-B11-R] (HA601147)

UNIPROT #

P07437

PROTEIN NAME

beta Tubulin

SYNONYMS

Beta 4 tubulin antibody;Beta 5 tubulin antibody;BetaTubulin antibody;TBB5_HUMAN antibody;TUBB antibody;TUBB2 antibody;TUBB2A antibody;TUBB5 antibody;tubulin beta 2A antibody;Tubulin beta chain antibody;Tubulin beta-5 chain antibody

SEQUENCE SIMILARITIES

Belongs to the tubulin family.

TISSUE SPECIFICITY

Ubiquitously expressed with highest levels in spleen, thymus and immature brain.

POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION

Some glutamate residues at the C-terminus are polyglutamylated, resulting in polyglutamate chains on the gamma-carboxyl group. Polyglutamylation plays a key role in microtubule severing by spastin (SPAST). SPAST preferentially recognizes and acts on microtubules decorated with short polyglutamate tails: severing activity by SPAST increases as the number of glutamates per tubulin rises from one to eight, but decreases beyond this glutamylation threshold.; Some glutamate residues at the C-terminus are monoglycylated but not polyglycylated due to the absence of functional TTLL10 in human. Monoglycylation is mainly limited to tubulin incorporated into axonemes (cilia and flagella). Both polyglutamylation and monoglycylation can coexist on the same protein on adjacent residues, and lowering glycylation levels increases polyglutamylation, and reciprocally. The precise function of monoglycylation is still unclear (Probable).; Phosphorylated on Ser-172 by CDK1 during the cell cycle, from metaphase to telophase, but not in interphase. This phosphorylation inhibits tubulin incorporation into microtubules.

SUBCELLULAR LOCATION

Cytoplasm ,cytoskeleton

FUNCTION

Tubulin in molecular biology can refer either to the tubulin protein superfamily of globular proteins, or one of the member proteins of that superfamily. α- and β-tubulins polymerize into microtubules, a major component of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. Microtubules function in many essential cellular processes, including mitosis. Tubulin-binding drugs kill cancerous cells by inhibiting microtubule dynamics, which are required for DNA segregation and therefore cell division. In eukaryotes, there are six members of the tubulin superfamily, although not all are present in all species. Both α and β tubulins have a mass of around 50 kDa and are thus in a similar range compared to actin (with a mass of ~42 kDa). In contrast, tubulin polymers (microtubules) tend to be much bigger than actin filaments due to their cylindrical nature. Tubulin was long thought to be specific to eukaryotes. More recently, however, several prokaryotic proteins have been shown to be related to tubulin.