Centrosome and spindle pole microtubules are main targets of a fluorescent taxoid inducing cell death

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton
M AbalIsabel Barasoain

Abstract

Microtubules offer a very large local concentration of binding sites for cytotoxic taxoids or for hypothetical endogenous regulators. Several compounds from diverse sources stabilize microtubules and arrest cell division similarly to the antitumour drug Taxol. We have investigated the subcellular location of the Taxol binding sites, employing a fluorescent taxoid (FLUTAX) that reversibly interacts with the Taxol binding sites of microtubules and induces cellular effects similar to Taxol. The specific binding of FLUTAX to a fraction of the available cellular binding sites effectively inhibits division of cultured human tumour cells at G(2)/M, and triggers apoptotic death. The loci of reversible binding, directly imaged in intact U937 cells treated with cytotoxic doses of fluorescent taxoid are the centrosomes, with a few associated microtubules in interphase cells, and the spindle pole microtubules in mitotic cells, instead of uniformly labelling the microtubule cytoskeleton. Cytoskeletal lesions induced and visualized with FLUTAX consist of microtubule bundles and abnormal mitoses, including monopolar spindles and highly fluorescent multipolar spindles. The multiple asters and monopolar spindles mark arrested U937 leukaemia and...Continue Reading

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