Abstract This paper summarizes a survey of the electrophoretic behavior of the tubulins of 23 species (mostly protists) as well as their reactivity towards 4 anti-tubulin antibodies (raised against two ciliate tubulins and two vertebrate ones). Some generalizations concerning the relative migration rates of α VS β tubulin could be made, in particular the α/β inversion, first described inPhysarum was extended to several ciliates. Antivertebrate tubulin antibodies displayed a very broad spectrum of reactions, reacting with virtually all the species tested. They appear to correspond to auto-antibodies no exclusively directed against species specific determinants. In contrast, the two anti-ciliate tubulin antibodies displayed a narrow species specificity reacting only with a limited subset of protists. They were shown to be specific for a small number of immunological determinants present on ciliate tubulins. This allowed a rough evaluation of evolutionary relatedness between the various groups of protists analyzed. The results are discussed within the framework of a number of published phyllogenies and shown to be in striking agreement with some of the schemes.
Tubulin evolution: An electrophoretic and immunological analysis
Origins of life ; 13 , 3-4
1984
Article (Journal)
English
Local classification TIB: | 535/3908/4290 | |
BKL: | 44.71 Verkehrsmedizin |
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