A fluorescence anisotropy assay to discover and characterize ligands targeting the maytansine site of tubulin

Microtubule-targeting agents are used successfully as anticancer therapeutics. Here authors develop a fluorescence-anisotropy-based assay to identify and characterize ligands for the maytansine site of tubulin and provide crystal structures of identified ligands in complex with tubulin.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Grégory Menchon, Andrea E. Prota, Daniel Lucena-Agell, Pascal Bucher, Rolf Jansen, Herbert Irschik, Rolf Müller, Ian Paterson, J. Fernando Díaz, Karl-Heinz Altmann, Michel O. Steinmetz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04535-8