gamma-Tubulin is necessary for nucleation and polar orientation of microtubules in vivo. The molecular mechanism of microtubule nucleation by gamma-tubulin and the regulation of this process are not fully understood. Here we show that there are two gamma-tubulin forms in the brain that are present in complexes of various sizes. Large complexes tend to dissociate in the presence of a high salt concentration. Both gamma-tubulins co-polymerized with tubulin dimers, and multiple gamma-tubulin bands were identified in microtubule protein preparations under conditions of non-denaturing electrophoresis. Immunoprecipitation experiments with monoclonal antibodies against gamma-tubulin and alpha-tubulin revealed interactions of both gamma-tubulin forms with tubulin dimers, irrespective of the size of complexes. We suggest that, besides small and large gamma-tubulin complexes, other molecular gamma-tubulin form(s) exist in brain extracts. Two-dimensional electrophoresis revealed multiple charge variants of gamma-tubulin in both brain extracts and microtubule protein preparations. Post-translational modification(s) of gamma-tubulins might therefore have an important role in the regulation of microtubule nucleation in neuronal cells.

Institute of Molecular Genetics Department of Biology of Cytoskeleton Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 142 20 Prague 4 Czech Republic

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