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Williams SJ, Abrieu A, Losada A. Bub1 targeting to centromeres is sufficient for Sgo1 recruitment in the absence of kinetochores. Chromosoma 2016; 126:279-286. [PMID: 27116032 PMCID: PMC5371614 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-016-0592-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Revised: 04/10/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Centromeric chromatin containing the histone H3 variant centromere protein A (CENP-A) directs kinetochore assembly through a hierarchical binding of CENPs, starting with CENP-C and CENP-T. Centromeres are also the chromosomal regions where cohesion, mediated by cohesin, is most prominently maintained in mitosis. While most cohesin dissociates from chromosome arms in prophase, Shugoshin 1 (Sgo1) prevents this process at centromeres. Centromeric localization of Sgo1 depends on histone H2A phosphorylation by the kinase Bub1, but whether additional interactions with kinetochore components are required for Sgo1 recruitment is unclear. Using the Xenopus egg cell-free system, we here show that both CENP-C and CENP-T can independently drive centromeric accumulation of Sgo1 through recruitment of Bub1 to the KNL1, MIS12, NDC80 (KMN) network. The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) kinase Mps1 is also required for this pathway even in the absence of checkpoint signaling. Sgo1 recruitment is abolished in chromosomes lacking kinetochore components other than CENP-A. However, forced targeting of Bub1 to centromeres is sufficient to restore Sgo1 localization under this condition.
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- Samantha J Williams
- Chromosome Dynamics Group, Molecular Oncology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Melchor Fernández Almagro 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- Université Montpellier, CRBM, 34293, Montpellier, France
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- Chromosome Dynamics Group, Molecular Oncology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Melchor Fernández Almagro 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain.
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Baron AP, von Schubert C, Cubizolles F, Siemeister G, Hitchcock M, Mengel A, Schröder J, Fernández-Montalván A, von Nussbaum F, Mumberg D, Nigg EA. Probing the catalytic functions of Bub1 kinase using the small molecule inhibitors BAY-320 and BAY-524. eLife 2016; 5. [PMID: 26885717 PMCID: PMC4769170 DOI: 10.7554/elife.12187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2015] [Accepted: 01/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The kinase Bub1 functions in the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) and in chromosome congression, but the role of its catalytic activity remains controversial. Here, we use two novel Bub1 inhibitors, BAY-320 and BAY-524, to demonstrate potent Bub1 kinase inhibition both in vitro and in intact cells. Then, we compared the cellular phenotypes of Bub1 kinase inhibition in HeLa and RPE1 cells with those of protein depletion, indicative of catalytic or scaffolding functions, respectively. Bub1 inhibition affected chromosome association of Shugoshin and the chromosomal passenger complex (CPC), without abolishing global Aurora B function. Consequently, inhibition of Bub1 kinase impaired chromosome arm resolution but exerted only minor effects on mitotic progression or SAC function. Importantly, BAY-320 and BAY-524 treatment sensitized cells to low doses of Paclitaxel, impairing both chromosome segregation and cell proliferation. These findings are relevant to our understanding of Bub1 kinase function and the prospects of targeting Bub1 for therapeutic applications. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12187.001 The DNA in our cells is packaged into structures called chromosomes. When a cell divides, these chromosomes need to be copied and then correctly separated so that both daughter cells have a full set of genetic information. Errors in separating chromosomes can lead to the death of cells, birth defects or contribute to the development of cancer. Chromosomes are separated by an array of protein fibers called the mitotic spindle. A surveillance mechanism known as the spindle assembly checkpoint prevents the cell from dividing until all the chromosomes have properly attached to the spindle. A protein called Bub1 is a central element of the SAC. However, it was not clear whether Bub1 works primarily as an enzyme or as a scaffolding protein. Baron, von Schubert et al. characterized two new molecules that inhibit Bub1’s enzyme activity and used them to investigate what role the enzyme plays in the spindle assembly checkpoint in human cells. The experiments compared the effects of these inhibitors to the effects of other molecules that block the production of Bub1. Baron, von Schubert et al.’s findings suggest that Bub1 works primarily as a scaffolding protein, but that the enzyme activity is required for optimal performance. Further experiments show that when the molecules that inhibit the Bub1 enzyme are combined with paclitaxel – a widely used therapeutic drug – cancer cells have more difficulties in separating their chromosomes and divide less often. The new inhibitors used by Baron, von Schubert et al. will be useful for future studies of this protein in different situations. Furthermore, these molecules may have the potential to be used as anti-cancer therapies in combination with other drugs. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12187.002
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- Anna P Baron
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany
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- Global Drug Discovery, Bayer Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Park SH, Xie S, Rao CV, Dai W. Haplo-insufficiency of both BubR1 and SGO1 accelerates cellular senescence. J Hematol Oncol 2016; 9:7. [PMID: 26847209 PMCID: PMC4743409 DOI: 10.1186/s13045-016-0238-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2015] [Accepted: 01/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background Spindle assembly checkpoint components BubR1 and Sgo1 play a key role in the maintenance of chromosomal instability during cell division. These proteins function to block the anaphase entry until all condensed chromosomes have been attached by the microtubules emanating from both spindle poles. Haplo-insufficiency of either BubR1 or SGO1 results in enhanced chromosomal instability and tumor development in the intestine. Recent studies show that spindle checkpoint proteins also have a role in slowing down the ageing process. Therefore, we want to study whether haplo-insufficiency of both BubR1 and SGO1 accelerates cellular senescence in mice. Methods We took advantage of the availability of BubR1 and SGO1 knockout mice and generated primary murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) with mutations in either BubR1, SGO1, or both and analyzed cellular senescence of the MEFs of various genetic backgrounds. Results We observed that BubR1+/−SGO+/− MEFs had an accelerated cellular senescence characterized by morphological changes and expressed senescence-associated β-galactosidase. In addition, compared with wild-type MEFs or MEFs with a single gene deficiency, BubR1+/−SGO1+/− MEFs expressed enhanced levels of p21 but not p16. Conclusions Taken together, our observations suggest that combined deficiency of BubR1 and Sgo1 accelerates cellular senescence.
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- Sung-Hyun Park
- Departments of Environmental Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, New York University Langone Medical Center, 57 Old Forge Road, Tuxedo, New York, 10987, USA
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- Institute of Pathology, Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- Center for Cancer Prevention and Drug Development Program, Department of Medicine, Hem/Onc Section, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma, USA
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- Departments of Environmental Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, New York University Langone Medical Center, 57 Old Forge Road, Tuxedo, New York, 10987, USA.
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Shugoshin forms a specialized chromatin domain at subtelomeres that regulates transcription and replication timing. Nat Commun 2016; 7:10393. [PMID: 26804021 PMCID: PMC4737732 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2015] [Accepted: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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A chromosome is composed of structurally and functionally distinct domains. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the formation of chromatin structure and the function of subtelomeres, the telomere-adjacent regions, remain obscure. Here we report the roles of the conserved centromeric protein Shugoshin 2 (Sgo2) in defining chromatin structure and functions of the subtelomeres in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. We show that Sgo2 localizes at the subtelomeres preferentially during G2 phase and is essential for the formation of a highly condensed subtelomeric chromatin body 'knob'. Furthermore, the absence of Sgo2 leads to the derepression of the subtelomeric genes and premature DNA replication at the subtelomeric late origins. Thus, the subtelomeric specialized chromatin domain organized by Sgo2 represses both transcription and replication to ensure proper gene expression and replication timing.
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DeLuca KF, Herman JA, DeLuca JG. Measuring Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachment Stability in Cultured Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2016; 1413:147-168. [PMID: 27193848 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3542-0_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Duplicated sister chromatids connect to the mitotic spindle through kinetochores, large proteinaceous structures built at sites of centromeric heterochromatin. Kinetochores are responsible for harnessing the forces generated by microtubule polymerization and depolymerization to power chromosome movements. The fidelity of chromosome segregation relies on proper kinetochore function, as precise regulation of the attachment between kinetochores and microtubules is essential to prevent mitotic errors, which are linked to the initiation and progression of cancer and the formation of birth defects (Godek et al., Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 16(1):57-64, 2014; Ricke and van Deursen, Semin Cell Dev Biol 22(6):559-565, 2011; Holland and Cleveland, EMBO Rep 13(6):501-514, 2012). Here we describe assays to quantitatively measure kinetochore-microtubule attachment stability in cultured cells.
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- Keith F DeLuca
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, MRB 237, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, MRB 237, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, MRB 237, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA.
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Breit C, Bange T, Petrovic A, Weir JR, Müller F, Vogt D, Musacchio A. Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors in the Regulation of the Mitotic Checkpoint Kinase Bub1. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0144673. [PMID: 26658523 PMCID: PMC4675524 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2015] [Accepted: 11/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) monitors microtubule attachment to kinetochores to ensure accurate sister chromatid segregation during mitosis. The SAC members Bub1 and BubR1 are paralogs that underwent significant functional specializations during evolution. We report an in-depth characterization of the kinase domains of Bub1 and BubR1. BubR1 kinase domain binds nucleotides but is unable to deliver catalytic activity in vitro. Conversely, Bub1 is an active kinase regulated by intra-molecular phosphorylation at the P+1 loop. The crystal structure of the phosphorylated Bub1 kinase domain illustrates a hitherto unknown conformation of the P+1 loop docked into the active site of the Bub1 kinase. Both Bub1 and BubR1 bind Bub3 constitutively. A hydrodynamic characterization of Bub1:Bub3 and BubR1:Bub3 demonstrates both complexes to have 1:1 stoichiometry, with no additional oligomerization. Conversely, Bub1:Bub3 and BubR1:Bub3 combine to form a heterotetramer. Neither BubR1:Bub3 nor Knl1, the kinetochore receptor of Bub1:Bub3, modulate the kinase activity of Bub1 in vitro, suggesting autonomous regulation of the Bub1 kinase domain. We complement our study with an analysis of the Bub1 substrates. Our results contribute to the mechanistic characterization of a crucial cell cycle checkpoint.
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- Claudia Breit
- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Straße 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Straße 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Straße 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Straße 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Straße 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Straße 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Straße 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
- Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse, 45141, Essen, Germany
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Wang LH, Yen CJ, Li TN, Elowe S, Wang WC, Wang LHC. Sgo1 is a potential therapeutic target for hepatocellular carcinoma. Oncotarget 2015; 6:2023-33. [PMID: 25638162 PMCID: PMC4385833 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.2764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2014] [Accepted: 11/17/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Shugoshin-like protein 1 (Sgo1) is an essential protein in mitosis; it protects sister chromatid cohesion and thereby ensures the fidelity of chromosome separation. We found that the expression of Sgo1 mRNA was relatively low in normal tissues, but was upregulated in 82% of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and correlated with elevated alpha-fetoprotein and early disease onset of HCC. The depletion of Sgo1 reduced cell viability of hepatoma cell lines including HuH7, HepG2, Hep3B, and HepaRG. Using time-lapse microscopy, we showed that hepatoma cells were delayed and ultimately die in mitosis in the absence of Sgo1. In contrast, cell viability and mitotic progression of immortalized cells were not significantly affected. Notably, mitotic cell death induced upon Sgo1 depletion was suppressed upon inhibitions of cyclin-dependent kinase-1 and Aurora kinase-B, or the depletion of mitotic arrest deficient-2. Thus, mitotic cell death induced upon Sgo1 depletion in hepatoma cells is mediated by persistent activation of the spindle assembly checkpoint. Together, these results highlight the essential role of Sgo1 in the maintenance of a proper mitotic progression in hepatoma cells and suggest that Sgo1 is a promising oncotarget for HCC.
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- Lyu-Han Wang
- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Université Laval, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and Reproduction, Perinatal Health, and Infant Health, Québec, Canada
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.,Department of Medical Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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Krenn V, Musacchio A. The Aurora B Kinase in Chromosome Bi-Orientation and Spindle Checkpoint Signaling. Front Oncol 2015; 5:225. [PMID: 26528436 PMCID: PMC4607871 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aurora B, a member of the Aurora family of serine/threonine protein kinases, is a key player in chromosome segregation. As part of a macromolecular complex known as the chromosome passenger complex, Aurora B concentrates early during mitosis in the proximity of centromeres and kinetochores, the sites of attachment of chromosomes to spindle microtubules. There, it contributes to a number of processes that impart fidelity to cell division, including kinetochore stabilization, kinetochore–microtubule attachment, and the regulation of a surveillance mechanism named the spindle assembly checkpoint. In the regulation of these processes, Aurora B is the fulcrum of a remarkably complex network of interactions that feed back on its localization and activation state. In this review, we discuss the multiple roles of Aurora B during mitosis, focusing in particular on its role at centromeres and kinetochores. Many details of the network of interactions at these locations remain poorly understood, and we focus here on several crucial outstanding questions.
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- Veronica Krenn
- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology , Dortmund , Germany
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology , Dortmund , Germany ; Faculty of Biology, Centre for Medical Biotechnology, University Duisburg-Essen , Essen , Germany
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Hoffman CS, Wood V, Fantes PA. An Ancient Yeast for Young Geneticists: A Primer on the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Model System. Genetics 2015; 201:403-23. [PMID: 26447128 PMCID: PMC4596657 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.181503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an important model organism for the study of eukaryotic molecular and cellular biology. Studies of S. pombe, together with studies of its distant cousin, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, have led to the discovery of genes involved in fundamental mechanisms of transcription, translation, DNA replication, cell cycle control, and signal transduction, to name but a few processes. However, since the divergence of the two species approximately 350 million years ago, S. pombe appears to have evolved less rapidly than S. cerevisiae so that it retains more characteristics of the common ancient yeast ancestor, causing it to share more features with metazoan cells. This Primer introduces S. pombe by describing the yeast itself, providing a brief description of the origins of fission yeast research, and illustrating some genetic and bioinformatics tools used to study protein function in fission yeast. In addition, a section on some key differences between S. pombe and S. cerevisiae is included for readers with some familiarity with budding yeast research but who may have an interest in developing research projects using S. pombe.
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- Charles S Hoffman
- Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
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- Cambridge Systems Biology Centre and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, CB2 1GA Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh EH9 3JR Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Asghar A, Lajeunesse A, Dulla K, Combes G, Thebault P, Nigg EA, Elowe S. Bub1 autophosphorylation feeds back to regulate kinetochore docking and promote localized substrate phosphorylation. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8364. [PMID: 26399325 PMCID: PMC4598568 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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During mitosis, Bub1 kinase phosphorylates histone H2A-T120 to promote centromere sister chromatid cohesion through recruitment of shugoshin (Sgo) proteins. The regulation and dynamics of H2A-T120 phosphorylation are poorly understood. Using quantitative phosphoproteomics we show that Bub1 is autophosphorylated at numerous sites. We confirm mitosis-specific autophosphorylation of a several residues and show that Bub1 activation is primed in interphase but fully achieved only in mitosis. Mutation of a single autophosphorylation site T589 alters kinetochore turnover of Bub1 and results in uniform H2A-T120 phosphorylation and Sgo recruitment along chromosome arms. Consequently, improper sister chromatid resolution and chromosome segregation errors are observed. Kinetochore tethering of Bub1-T589A refocuses H2A-T120 phosphorylation and Sgo1 to centromeres. Recruitment of the Bub1-Bub3-BubR1 axis to kinetochores has recently been extensively studied. Our data provide novel insight into the regulation and kinetochore residency of Bub1 and indicate that its localization is dynamic and tightly controlled through feedback autophosphorylation.
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- Adeel Asghar
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1V 0A6.,Department of Reproduction, Mother and Youth Health, Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada G1V 4G2
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1V 0A6
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- ProQR Therapeutics N.V., Darwinweg 24, Leiden 2333 CR, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1V 0A6.,Department of Reproduction, Mother and Youth Health, Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada G1V 4G2
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- Department of Reproduction, Mother and Youth Health, Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada G1V 4G2
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50/70, Basel CH-4056, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1V 0A6.,Department of Reproduction, Mother and Youth Health, Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada G1V 4G2
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Liu H, Qu Q, Warrington R, Rice A, Cheng N, Yu H. Mitotic Transcription Installs Sgo1 at Centromeres to Coordinate Chromosome Segregation. Mol Cell 2015; 59:426-36. [PMID: 26190260 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Revised: 05/06/2015] [Accepted: 06/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Human sister chromatids at metaphase are primarily linked by centromeric cohesion, forming the iconic X shape. Premature loss of centromeric cohesion disrupts orderly mitotic progression. Shugoshin (Sgo1) binds to and protects cohesin at inner centromeres. The kinetochore kinase Bub1 phosphorylates histone H2A at T120 (H2A-pT120) and recruits Sgo1 to kinetochores, 0.5 μm from inner centromeres. Here, we show that Sgo1 is a direct reader of the H2A-pT120 mark. Bub1 also recruits RNA polymerase II (Pol II) to unattached kinetochores and promotes active transcription at mitotic kinetochores. Mitosis-specific inactivation of Pol II traps Sgo1 at kinetochores and weakens centromeric cohesion. Sgo1 interacts with Pol II in human cells and with RNA in vitro. We propose that Pol II-dependent transcription enables kinetochore-bound Sgo1 initially recruited by H2A-pT120 to reach cohesin embedded in centromeric chromatin. Our study implicates mitotic transcription in targeting regulatory factors to highly compacted mitotic chromatin.
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- Hong Liu
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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van de Werken C, Avo Santos M, Laven J, Eleveld C, Fauser B, Lens S, Baart E. Chromosome segregation regulation in human zygotes: altered mitotic histone phosphorylation dynamics underlying centromeric targeting of the chromosomal passenger complex. Hum Reprod 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dev186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Bekier ME, Mazur T, Rashid MS, Taylor WR. Borealin dimerization mediates optimal CPC checkpoint function by enhancing localization to centromeres and kinetochores. Nat Commun 2015; 6:6775. [PMID: 25854549 PMCID: PMC4392389 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2014] [Accepted: 02/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The Chromosomal Passenger Complex (CPC) localizes to centromeres where it activates the mitotic checkpoint in response to inappropriate inter-kinetochore tension. This error correction function is essential for proper chromosome segregation. Here we define several critical features of CPC localization and function. First, the Borealin dimerization domain suppresses dynamic exchange at the centromere to allow optimal CPC function. Second, Borealin dimerization is essential to target a subpopulation of CPC proximal to the kinetochore when the mitotic spindle is disrupted. This subpopulation is also needed for full CPC checkpoint function. The existence of a pool of CPC at the kinetochore suggests that error correction is more complicated than predicted from the Aurora B phosphorylation gradient model. Finally, Haspin kinase plays a key role in maintaining the slowly exchanging centromere Borealin pool, while Aurora B and Mps1 play minimal roles in maintaining CPC localization once cells are in mitosis.
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- Michael E Bekier
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, MS 601, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, MS 601, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, MS 601, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, MS 601, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
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Vleugel M, Omerzu M, Groenewold V, Hadders MA, Lens SMA, Kops GJPL. Sequential multisite phospho-regulation of KNL1-BUB3 interfaces at mitotic kinetochores. Mol Cell 2015; 57:824-835. [PMID: 25661489 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.12.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2014] [Revised: 11/08/2014] [Accepted: 12/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Regulated recruitment of the kinase-adaptor complex BUB1/BUB3 to kinetochores is crucial for correcting faulty chromosome-spindle attachments and for spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) signaling. BUB1/BUB3 localizes to kinetochores by binding phosphorylated MELT motifs (MELpT) in the kinetochore scaffold KNL1. Human KNL1 has 19 repeats that contain a MELT-like sequence. The repeats are, however, larger than MELT, and repeat sequences can vary significantly. Using systematic screening, we show that only a limited number of repeats is "active." Repeat activity correlates with the presence of a vertebrate-specific SHT motif C-terminal to the MELT sequence. SHT motifs are phosphorylated by MPS1 in a manner that requires prior phosphorylation of MELT. Phospho-SHT (SHpT) synergizes with MELpT in BUB3/BUB1 binding in vitro and in cells, and human BUB3 mutated in a predicted SHpT-binding surface cannot localize to kinetochores. Our data show sequential multisite regulation of the KNL1-BUB1/BUB3 interaction and provide mechanistic insight into evolution of the KNL1-BUB3 interface.
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- Mathijs Vleugel
- Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands; Cancer Genomics Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Silkova OG, Loginova DB. Structural and functional organization of centromeres in plant chromosomes. RUSS J GENET+ 2014. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795414120114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The shugoshin/Mei-S332 family are proteins that associate with the chromosomal region surrounding the centromere (the pericentromere) and that play multiple and distinct roles in ensuring the accuracy of chromosome segregation during both mitosis and meiosis. The underlying role of shugoshins appears to be to serve as pericentromeric adaptor proteins that recruit several different effectors to this region of the chromosome to regulate processes critical for chromosome segregation. Crucially, shugoshins undergo changes in their localization in response to the tension that is exerted on sister chromosomes by the forces of the spindle that will pull them apart. This has led to the idea that shugoshins provide a platform for activities required at the pericentromere only when sister chromosomes lack tension. Conversely, disassembly of the shugoshin pericentromeric platform may provide a signal that sister chromosomes are under tension. Here the functions and regulation of these important tension-sensitive pericentromeric proteins are discussed.
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Lin Z, Jia L, Tomchick DR, Luo X, Yu H. Substrate-specific activation of the mitotic kinase Bub1 through intramolecular autophosphorylation and kinetochore targeting. Structure 2014; 22:1616-27. [PMID: 25308863 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2014.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2014] [Revised: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 08/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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During mitosis of human cells, the kinase Bub1 orchestrates chromosome segregation through phosphorylating histone H2A and the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome activator Cdc20. Bub1-mediated H2A-T120 phosphorylation (H2A-pT120) at kinetochores promotes centromeric sister-chromatid cohesion, whereas Cdc20 phosphorylation by Bub1 contributes to spindle checkpoint signaling. Here, we show that phosphorylation at the P+1 substrate-binding loop of human Bub1 enhances its activity toward H2A but has no effect on its activity toward Cdc20. We determine the crystal structure of phosphorylated Bub1. A comparison between structures of phosphorylated and unphosphorylated Bub1 reveals phosphorylation-triggered reorganization of the P+1 loop. This activating phosphorylation of Bub1 is constitutive during the cell cycle. Enrichment of H2A-pT120 at mitotic kinetochores requires kinetochore targeting of Bub1. The P+1 loop phosphorylation of Bub1 appears to occur through intramolecular autophosphorylation. Our study provides structural and functional insights into substrate-specific regulation of a key mitotic kinase and expands the repertoire of kinase activation mechanisms.
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- Zhonghui Lin
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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Eshleman HD, Morgan DO. Sgo1 recruits PP2A to chromosomes to ensure sister chromatid bi-orientation during mitosis. J Cell Sci 2014; 127:4974-83. [PMID: 25236599 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.161273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Sister chromatid bi-orientation on the mitotic spindle is essential for proper chromosome segregation. Defects in bi-orientation are sensed and corrected to prevent chromosome mis-segregation and aneuploidy. This response depends on the adaptor protein Sgo1, which associates with pericentromeric chromatin in mitosis. The mechanisms underlying Sgo1 function and regulation are unclear. Here, we show that Sgo1 is an anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) substrate in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), and that its mitotic destruction depends on an unusual D-box-related sequence motif near its C-terminus. We find that the removal of Sgo1 from chromosomes before anaphase is not dependent on its destruction, but rather on other mechanisms responsive to tension between sister chromatids. Additionally, we find that Sgo1 recruits the protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) isoform containing Rts1 to the pericentromeric region prior to bi-orientation, and that artificial recruitment of Rts1 to this region of a single chromosome is sufficient to perform the function of Sgo1 on that chromosome. We conclude that in early mitosis, Sgo1 associates transiently with pericentromeric chromatin to promote bi-orientation, in large part by recruiting the Rts1 isoform of PP2A.
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- Heather D Eshleman
- Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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Yun Y, Holt JE, Lane SIR, McLaughlin EA, Merriman JA, Jones KT. Reduced ability to recover from spindle disruption and loss of kinetochore spindle assembly checkpoint proteins in oocytes from aged mice. Cell Cycle 2014; 13:1938-47. [PMID: 24758999 DOI: 10.4161/cc.28897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Currently, maternal aging in women, based on mouse models, is thought to raise oocyte aneuploidy rates, because chromosome cohesion deteriorates during prophase arrest, and Sgo2, a protector of centromeric cohesion, is lost. Here we show that the most common mouse strain, C57Bl6/J, is resistant to maternal aging, showing little increase in aneuploidy or Sgo2 loss. Instead it demonstrates significant kinetochore-associated loss in the spindle assembly checkpoint protein Mad2 and phosphorylated Aurora C, which is involved in microtubule-kinetochore error correction. Their loss affects the fidelity of bivalent segregation but only when spindle organization is impaired during oocyte maturation. These findings have an impact clinically regarding the handling of human oocytes ex vivo during assisted reproductive techniques and suggest there is a genetic basis to aneuploidy susceptibility.
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- Yan Yun
- School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy; University of Newcastle; Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy; University of Newcastle; Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy; University of Newcastle; Callaghan, NSW, Australia; Centre for Biological Sciences; Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton, UK
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- School of Environmental and Life Sciences; University of Newcastle; Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy; University of Newcastle; Callaghan, NSW, Australia; Centre for Biological Sciences; Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton, UK
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- School of Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacy; University of Newcastle; Callaghan, NSW, Australia; Centre for Biological Sciences; Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton, UK
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The propagation of all organisms depends on the accurate and orderly segregation of chromosomes in mitosis and meiosis. Budding yeast has long served as an outstanding model organism to identify the components and underlying mechanisms that regulate chromosome segregation. This review focuses on the kinetochore, the macromolecular protein complex that assembles on centromeric chromatin and maintains persistent load-bearing attachments to the dynamic tips of spindle microtubules. The kinetochore also serves as a regulatory hub for the spindle checkpoint, ensuring that cell cycle progression is coupled to the achievement of proper microtubule-kinetochore attachments. Progress in understanding the composition and overall architecture of the kinetochore, as well as its properties in making and regulating microtubule attachments and the spindle checkpoint, is discussed.
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Rakkaa T, Escudé C, Giet R, Magnaghi-Jaulin L, Jaulin C. CDK11(p58) kinase activity is required to protect sister chromatid cohesion at centromeres in mitosis. Chromosome Res 2014; 22:267-76. [PMID: 24436071 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-013-9400-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2013] [Revised: 12/22/2013] [Accepted: 12/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The cyclin-dependent kinase CDK11(p58) is specifically expressed at G2/M phase. CDK11(p58) depletion leads to different cell cycle defects such as mitotic arrest, failure in centriole duplication and centrosome maturation, and premature sister chromatid separation. We report that upon CDK11 depletion, loss of sister chromatid cohesion occurs during mitosis but not during G2 phase. CDK11(p58) depletion prevents Bub1 and Shugoshin 1 recruitment but has no effect on the dimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 at centromeres. We also report that a construct expressing a kinase dead version of CDK11(p58) fails to prevent CDK11 depletion-induced sister chromatid separation, showing that CDK11(p58) kinase activity is required for protection of sister chromatid cohesion at centromeres during mitosis. Thus, CDK11(p58) kinase activity appears to be involved in early events in the establishment of the centromere protection machinery.
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- Tarik Rakkaa
- Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, Equipe Epigénétique et Cancer UMR 6290 CNRS, Université Rennes 1, 35043, Rennes Cedex, France
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Mailhes JB, Marchetti F. Advances in understanding the genetic causes and mechanisms of female germ cell aneuploidy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1586/eog.10.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Centromeric cohesion is protected twice at meiosis, by SHUGOSHINs at anaphase I and by PATRONUS at interkinesis. Curr Biol 2013; 23:2090-9. [PMID: 24206843 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.08.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2013] [Revised: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND At meiosis, two successive rounds of chromosome segregation lead to ploidy halving. This is achieved through a stepwise release of sister chromatid cohesion, along chromosome arms to allow homolog segregation at anaphase I and at centromeres to allow sister chromatid segregation at anaphase II. Cohesins, the protein complex that ensures cohesion, must then be protected at centromeres throughout meiosis, until the onset of anaphase II. Members of the Shugoshin protein family have been shown to protect centromeric cohesins at anaphase I, but much less is known about the protection of cohesion during interkinesis, the stage between meiosis I and meiosis II. RESULTS Here, we (1) show that both Arabidopsis SHUGOSHINs paralogs are required for complete protection of centromeric cohesins during meiosis I, without apparent somatic function, and (2) identified PATRONUS (PANS1), a novel protein required for protection of meiotic centromeric cohesion. Although AtSGO1 and AtSGO2 protect centromeric cohesion during anaphase I, PANS1 is required at a later stage, during interkinesis. Additionally, we identified PANS2, a paralog of PANS1, whose mutation is synthetically lethal with pans1 suggesting that PANS genes are also essential for mitosis. PANS1 interacts directly with the CDC27b and the CDC20.1 subunit of the Anaphase Promoting Complex (APC/C), in a manner suggesting that PANS1 could be both a regulator and a target of the APC/C. CONCLUSIONS This study reveals that centromeric cohesion is actively protected at two successive stages of meiosis, by SHUGOSHINs at anaphase I and by PATRONUS at interkinesis.
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Liu H, Jia L, Yu H. Phospho-H2A and cohesin specify distinct tension-regulated Sgo1 pools at kinetochores and inner centromeres. Curr Biol 2013; 23:1927-33. [PMID: 24055156 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Revised: 07/07/2013] [Accepted: 07/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Accurate chromosome segregation requires coordination between the dissolution of sister-chromatid cohesion and the establishment of proper kinetochore-microtubule attachment. During mitosis, sister-chromatid cohesion at centromeres enables the biorientation of and tension across sister kinetochores. The complex between shugoshin and protein phosphatase 2A (Sgo1-PP2A) localizes to centromeres in mitosis, binds to cohesin in a reaction requiring Cdk-dependent phosphorylation of Sgo1, dephosphorylates cohesin-bound sororin, and protects a centromeric pool of cohesin from mitotic kinases and the cohesin inhibitor Wapl. Cleavage of centromeric cohesin by separase allows sister chromatids connected to microtubules from opposing poles to be evenly partitioned into daughter cells. The centromeric localization of Sgo1 requires histone H2A phosphorylation at T120 (H2A-pT120) by the kinase Bub1. The exact role of H2A-pT120 in Sgo1 regulation is, however, unclear. Here, we show that cohesin and H2A-pT120 specify two distinct pools of Sgo1-P2A at inner centromeres and kinetochores, respectively, in human cells. Bub1 inactivation delocalizes cohesin-Sgo1 to chromosome arms. Kinetochore tension triggers Sgo1 dephosphorylation and redistributes Sgo1 from inner centromeres to kinetochores. Incomplete Sgo1 redistribution causes chromosome nondisjunction. Our study suggests that Bub1-mediated H2A phosphorylation penetrates kinetochores and that this histone mark contributes to a tension-sensitive Sgo1-based molecular switch for chromosome segregation.
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- Hong Liu
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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Frameshift mutations of chromosome cohesion–related genes SGOL1 and PDS5B in gastric and colorectal cancers with high microsatellite instability. Hum Pathol 2013; 44:2234-40. [DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2013.04.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2013] [Revised: 03/28/2013] [Accepted: 04/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Replication stress and mitotic dysfunction in cells expressing simian virus 40 large T antigen. J Virol 2013; 87:13179-92. [PMID: 24067972 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02224-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We previously demonstrated that simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen (LT) binds to the Bub1 kinase, a key regulator of the spindle checkpoint and chromosome segregation. Bub1 mutations or altered expression patterns are linked to chromosome missegregation and are considered to be a driving force in some human cancers. Here we report that LT, dependent on Bub1 binding, causes micronuclei, lagging chromatin, and anaphase bridges, which are hallmarks of chromosomal instability (CIN) and Bub1 insufficiency. Using time-lapse microscopy, we demonstrate that LT imposes a Bub1 binding-dependent delay in the metaphase-to-anaphase transition. Kinetochore fibers reveal that LT, via Bub1 binding, causes aberrant kinetochore (KT)-microtubule (MT) attachments and a shortened interkinetochore distance, consistent with a lack of tension. Previously, we showed that LT also induces the DNA damage response (DDR) via Bub1 binding. Using inducible LT cell lines, we show that an activated DDR was observed before the appearance of anaphase bridges and micronuclei. Furthermore, LT induction in serum-starved cells demonstrated γ-H2AX accumulation in cells that had not yet entered mitosis. Thus, DDR activation can occur independently of chromosome segregation defects. Replication stress pathways may be responsible, because signatures of replication stress were observed, which were attenuated by exogenous supplementation with nucleosides. Our observations allow us to propose a model that explains and integrates the diverse manifestations of genomic instability induced by LT.
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Yin FX, Li GP, Bai CL, Liu Y, Wei ZY, Liang CG, Bunch TD, Zan LS. SGO1 maintains bovine meiotic and mitotic centromeric cohesions of sister chromatids and directly affects embryo development. PLoS One 2013; 8:e73636. [PMID: 24019931 PMCID: PMC3760824 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2013] [Accepted: 07/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Shugoshin (SGO) is a critical factor that enforces cohesion from segregation of paired sister chromatids during mitosis and meiosis. It has been studied mainly in invertebrates. Knowledge of SGO(s) in a mammalian system has only been reported in the mouse and Hela cells. In this study, the functions of SGO1 in bovine oocytes during meiotic maturation, early embryonic development and somatic cell mitosis were investigated. The results showed that SGO1 was expressed from germinal vesicle (GV) to the metaphase II stage. SGO1 accumulated on condensed and scattered chromosomes from pre-metaphase I to metaphase II. The over-expression of SGO1 did not interfere with the process of homologous chromosome separation, although once separated they were unable to move to the opposing spindle poles. This often resulted in the formation of oocytes with 60 replicated chromosomes. Depletion of SGO1 in GV oocytes affected chromosomal separation resulting in abnormal chromosome alignment at a significantly higher proportion than in control oocytes. Knockdown of SGO1 expression significantly decreased the embryonic developmental rate and quality. To further confirm the function(s) of SGO1 during mitosis, bovine embryonic fibroblast cells were transfected with SGO1 siRNAs. SGO1 depletion induced the premature dissociation of chromosomal cohesion at the centromere and along the chromosome arm giving rise to abnormal appearing mitotic patterns. The results of this study infer that SGO1 is involved in the centromeric cohesion of sister chromatids and chromosomal movement towards the spindle poles. Depletion of SGO1 causes arrestment of cell division in meiosis and mitosis.
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- Feng-Xia Yin
- The Key Laboratory of National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- The Key Laboratory of National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- The Key Laboratory of National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- The Key Laboratory of National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- The Key Laboratory of National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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Wang Y, Liu L, Liu X, Zhang H, Liu J, Feng B, Shang Y, Zhou L, Wu K, Nie Y, Zhang H, Fan D. Shugoshin1 enhances multidrug resistance of gastric cancer cells by regulating MRP1, Bcl-2, and Bax genes. Tumour Biol 2013; 34:2205-14. [PMID: 23564482 DOI: 10.1007/s13277-013-0758-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2012] [Accepted: 03/20/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major clinical obstacle in treatment of gastric cancer (GC) and it accounts for the majority of cancer-related mortalities. Shugoshin1 (SGO1) is an important player in appropriate chromosome segregation and is involved in tumorigenesis. In this study, we found endogenous SGO1 overexpression in the multidrug-resistant GC cell lines SGC7901/VCR and SGC7901/ADR compared with their parental cell line SGC7901. By enhancing expression of SGO1, sensitivity of SGC7901 cells to vincristine (VCR), adriamycin, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), and cisplatin (CDDP) was significantly diminished. Silencing its expression resulted in enhanced sensitivity of SGC7901/VCR and SGC7901/ADR cells to these antitumor drugs. Additionally, we confirmed that SGO1 increased capacity of cells to enable adriamycin (ADR) efflux and inhibit drug-induced apoptosis by regulating MRP 1, Bcl-2, and Bax genes so as to confer a MDR phenotype to GC cells. In brief, these findings suggest that SGO1 promotes MDR of GC cells and may be useful as a novel therapeutic target for preventing or reversing MDR.
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- Yafang Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology & Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, 710032, China
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Qi ST, Wang ZB, Ouyang YC, Zhang QH, Hu MW, Huang X, Ge Z, Guo L, Wang YP, Hou Y, Schatten H, Sun QY. Overexpression of SETβ, a protein localizing to centromeres, causes precocious separation of chromatids during the first meiosis of mouse oocytes. J Cell Sci 2013; 126:1595-603. [PMID: 23444375 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.116541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Chromosome segregation in mammalian oocyte meiosis is an error-prone process, and any mistake in this process may result in aneuploidy, which is the main cause of infertility, abortion and many genetic diseases. It is now well known that shugoshin and protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) play important roles in the protection of centromeric cohesion during the first meiosis. PP2A can antagonize the phosphorylation of rec8, a member of the cohesin complex, at the centromeres and thus prevent cleavage of rec8 and so maintain the cohesion of chromatids. SETβ is a protein that physically interacts with shugoshin and inhibits PP2A activity. We thus hypothesized that SETβ might regulate cohesion protection and chromosome segregation during oocyte meiotic maturation. Here we report for the first time the expression, subcellular localization and functions of SETβ during mouse oocyte meiosis. Immunoblotting analysis showed that the expression level of SETβ was stable from the germinal vesicle stage to the MII stage of oocyte meiosis. Immunofluorescence analysis showed SETβ accumulation in the nucleus at the germinal vesicle stage, whereas it was targeted mainly to the inner centromere area and faintly localized to the interchromatid axes from germinal vesicle breakdown to MI stages. At the MII stage, SETβ still localized to the inner centromere area, but could relocalize to kinetochores in a process perhaps dependent on the tension on the centromeres. SETβ partly colocalized with PP2A at the inner centromere area. Overexpression of SETβ in mouse oocytes caused precocious separation of sister chromatids, but depletion of SETβ by RNAi showed little effects on the meiotic maturation process. Taken together, our results suggest that SETβ, even though it localizes to centromeres, might not be essential for chromosome separation during mouse oocyte meiotic maturation, although its forced overexpression causes premature chromatid separation.
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- Shu-Tao Qi
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Liu H, Rankin S, Yu H. Phosphorylation-enabled binding of SGO1-PP2A to cohesin protects sororin and centromeric cohesion during mitosis. Nat Cell Biol 2013; 15:40-9. [PMID: 23242214 PMCID: PMC3531828 DOI: 10.1038/ncb2637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2012] [Accepted: 11/01/2012] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Timely dissolution of sister-chromatid cohesion in mitosis ensures accurate chromosome segregation to guard against aneuploidy and tumorigenesis. The complex of shugoshin and protein phosphatase 2A (SGO1-PP2A) protects cohesin at centromeres from premature removal by mitotic kinases and WAPL in prophase. Here we address the regulation and mechanism of human SGO1 in centromeric cohesion protection, and show that cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)-mediated, mitosis-specific phosphorylation of SGO1 activates its cohesion-protection function and enables its direct binding to cohesin. The phospho-SGO1-bound cohesin complex contains PP2A, PDS5 and hypophosphorylated sororin, but lacks WAPL. Expression of non-phosphorylatable sororin bypasses the requirement for SGO1-PP2A in centromeric cohesion. Thus, mitotic phosphorylation of SGO1 targets SGO1-PP2A to cohesin, promotes dephosphorylation of PDS5-bound sororin and protects centromeric cohesin from WAPL. PP2A-orchestrated, site-selective dephosphorylation of cohesin and its regulators underlies centromeric cohesion protection.
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- Hong Liu
- Department of Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390
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- Program in Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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- Department of Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390
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The centromere is essential for accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis to achieve transmission of genetic information to daughter cells. To facilitate accurate chromosome segregation, the centromere serves several specific functions, including microtubule binding, spindle-checkpoint control, and sister chromatid cohesion. The kinetochore is formed on the centromere to achieve these functions. To understand kinetochore structure and function, it is critical to identify the protein components of the kinetochore and characterize the functional properties of each component. Here, we review recent progress with regard to the molecular architecture of the kinetochore and discuss the future directions for centromere biology.
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Ricke RM, Jeganathan KB, Malureanu L, Harrison AM, van Deursen JM. Bub1 kinase activity drives error correction and mitotic checkpoint control but not tumor suppression. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 199:931-49. [PMID: 23209306 PMCID: PMC3518220 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201205115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mice expressing a version of Bub1 that lacks kinase activity have increased chromosome segregation errors and aneuploidy but not increased susceptibility to tumors. The mitotic checkpoint protein Bub1 is essential for embryogenesis and survival of proliferating cells, and bidirectional deviations from its normal level of expression cause chromosome missegregation, aneuploidy, and cancer predisposition in mice. To provide insight into the physiological significance of this critical mitotic regulator at a modular level, we generated Bub1 mutant mice that lack kinase activity using a knockin gene-targeting approach that preserves normal protein abundance. In this paper, we uncover that Bub1 kinase activity integrates attachment error correction and mitotic checkpoint signaling by controlling the localization and activity of Aurora B kinase through phosphorylation of histone H2A at threonine 121. Strikingly, despite substantial chromosome segregation errors and aneuploidization, mice deficient for Bub1 kinase activity do not exhibit increased susceptibility to spontaneous or carcinogen-induced tumorigenesis. These findings provide a unique example of a modular mitotic activity orchestrating two distinct networks that safeguard against whole chromosome instability and reveal the differential importance of distinct aneuploidy-causing Bub1 defects in tumor suppression.
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- Robin M Ricke
- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Morimoto A, Shibuya H, Zhu X, Kim J, Ishiguro KI, Han M, Watanabe Y. A conserved KASH domain protein associates with telomeres, SUN1, and dynactin during mammalian meiosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 198:165-72. [PMID: 22826121 PMCID: PMC3410425 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201204085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In yeasts and worms, KASH (Klarsicht/ANC-1/Syne/homology) domain and SUN (Sad-1/UNC-84) domain nuclear envelope (NE) proteins play a crucial role in meiotic chromosome movement and homologue pairing. However, although the vertebrate SUN domain protein SUN1 is involved in these processes, its partner has remained identified. Based on subcellular localization screening in mouse spermatocytes, we identified a novel germ cell-specific protein, KASH5, that localized exclusively at telomeres from the leptotene to diplotene stages in both spermatocytes and oocytes. KASH5 possesses hitherto unknown KASH-related sequences that directly interacted with SUN1 and mediated telomere localization. Thus, KASH5 is a mammalian meiosis-specific KASH domain protein. We show that meiotic chromosome movement depended on microtubules and that KASH5 interacted with the microtubule-associated dynein-dynactin complex. These results suggest that KASH5 connects the telomere-associated SUN1 protein to the cytoplasmic force-generating mechanism involved in meiotic chromosome movement. Our study strongly suggests that the meiotic homologue-pairing mechanism mediated by the SUN-KASH NE bridge is highly conserved among eukaryotes.
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- Akihiro Morimoto
- Laboratory of Chromosome Dynamics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
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Mehta GD, Rizvi SMA, Ghosh SK. Cohesin: a guardian of genome integrity. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2012; 1823:1324-42. [PMID: 22677545 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2012.05.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2012] [Revised: 05/16/2012] [Accepted: 05/25/2012] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Ability to reproduce is one of the hallmark features of all life forms by which new organisms are produced from their progenitors. During this process each cell duplicates its genome and passes a copy of its genome to the daughter cells along with the cellular matrix. Unlike bacteria, in eukaryotes there is a definite time gap between when the genome is duplicated and when it is physically separated. Therefore, for precise halving of the duplicated genome into two, it is required that each pair of duplicated chromosomes, termed sister chromatids, should be paired together in a binary fashion from the moment they are generated. This pairing function between the duplicated genome is primarily provided by a multimeric protein complex, called cohesin. Thus, genome integrity largely depends on cohesin as it ensures faithful chromosome segregation by holding the sister chromatids glued together from S phase to anaphase. In this review, we have discussed the life cycle of cohesin during both mitotic and meiotic cell divisions including the structure and architecture of cohesin complex, relevance of cohesin associated proteins, mechanism of cohesin loading onto the chromatin, cohesion establishment and the mechanism of cohesin disassembly during anaphase to separate the sister chromatids. We have also focused on the role of posttranslational modifications in cohesin biology. For better understanding of the complexity of the cohesin regulatory network to the readers, we have presented an interactome profiling of cohesin core subunits in budding yeast during mitosis and meiosis.
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- Gunjan D Mehta
- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Wadhwani Research Centre for Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
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Yao Y, Dai W. Shugoshins function as a guardian for chromosomal stability in nuclear division. Cell Cycle 2012; 11:2631-42. [PMID: 22732496 PMCID: PMC3850027 DOI: 10.4161/cc.20633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2012] [Accepted: 05/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis is regulated and secured by several distinctly different yet intricately connected regulatory mechanisms. As chromosomal instability is a hallmark of a majority of tumors as well as a cause of infertility for germ cells, extensive research in the past has focused on the identification and characterization of molecular components that are crucial for faithful chromosome segregation during cell division. Shugoshins, including Sgo1 and Sgo2, are evolutionarily conserved proteins that function to protect sister chromatid cohesion, thus ensuring chromosomal stability during mitosis and meiosis in eukaryotes. Recent studies reveal that Shugoshins in higher animals play an essential role not only in protecting centromeric cohesion of sister chromatids and assisting bi-orientation attachment at the kinetochores, but also in safeguarding centriole cohesion/engagement during early mitosis. Many molecular components have been identified that play essential roles in modulating/mediating Sgo functions. This review primarily summarizes recent advances on the mechanisms of action of Shugoshins in suppressing chromosomal instability during nuclear division in eukaryotic organisms.
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- Yixin Yao
- Departments of Environmental Medicine and Pharmacology; New York University School of Medicine; Tuxedo, NY USA
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- Departments of Environmental Medicine and Pharmacology; New York University School of Medicine; Tuxedo, NY USA
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Gutiérrez-Caballero C, Cebollero LR, Pendás AM. Shugoshins: from protectors of cohesion to versatile adaptors at the centromere. Trends Genet 2012; 28:351-60. [PMID: 22542109 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2012.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2011] [Revised: 03/07/2012] [Accepted: 03/07/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sister chromatids are held together by a protein complex named cohesin. Shugoshin proteins protect cohesin from cleavage by separase during meiosis I in eukaryotes and from phosphorylation-mediated removal during mitosis in vertebrates. This protection is crucial for chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis. Mechanistically, shugoshins shield cohesin by forming a complex with the phosphatase PP2A, which dephosphorylates cohesin, leading to its retention at centromeres during the onset of meiotic anaphase and vertebrate mitotic prophase I. In addition to this canonical function, shugoshins have evolved novel, species-specific cellular functions, the mechanisms of which remain a subject of intense debate, but are likely to involve spatio-temporally coordinated interactions with the chromosome passenger complex, the spindle checkpoint and the anaphase promoting complex. Here, we compare and contrast these remarkable features of shugoshins in model organisms and humans.
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- Cristina Gutiérrez-Caballero
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer (CSIC-USAL), Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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Watanabe Y. Geometry and force behind kinetochore orientation: lessons from meiosis. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2012; 13:370-82. [PMID: 22588367 DOI: 10.1038/nrm3349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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During mitosis, replicated chromosomes (sister chromatids) become attached at the kinetochore by spindle microtubules emanating from opposite poles and segregate equationally. In the first division of meiosis, however, sister chromatids become attached from the same pole and co-segregate, whereas homologous chromosomes connected by chiasmata segregate to opposite poles. Disorder in this specialized chromosome attachment in meiosis is the leading cause of miscarriage in humans. Recent studies have elucidated the molecular mechanisms determining chromosome orientation, and consequently segregation, in meiosis. Comparative studies of meiosis and mitosis have led to the general principle that kinetochore geometry and tension exerted by microtubules synergistically generate chromosome orientation.
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- Yoshinori Watanabe
- Laboratory of Chromosome Dynamics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan.
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Dupont C, Harvey AJ, Armant DR, Zelinski MB, Brenner CA. Expression profiles of cohesins, shugoshins and spindle assembly checkpoint genes in rhesus macaque oocytes predict their susceptibility for aneuploidy during embryonic development. Cell Cycle 2012; 11:740-8. [PMID: 22327397 PMCID: PMC3318107 DOI: 10.4161/cc.11.4.19207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2011] [Revised: 12/23/2011] [Accepted: 12/29/2011] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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High frequencies of chromosomal anomalies are reported in human and non-human primate in vitro-produced preimplantation embryos. It is unclear why certain embryos develop aneuploidies while others remain euploid. A differential susceptibility to aneuploidy is most likely a consequence of events that occur before oocyte collection. One hypothesis is that the relative transcript levels of cohesins, shugoshins and spindle assembly checkpoint genes are correlated with the occurrence of chromosomal anomalies. Transcript levels of these genes were quantified in individual oocytes that were either mature (group 1, low aneuploidy rate) or immature (group 2, high aneuploidy rate) at retrieval, utilizing TaqMan-based real-time PCR. The transcript level in each oocyte was categorized as absent, below the median or above the median in order to conduct comparisons. Statistically significant differences were observed between group 1 and group 2 for SGOL1 and BUB1. There were more oocytes with SGOL1 expression levels above the median in group 1, while oocytes lacking BUB1 were only observed in group 1. These findings suggest that higher SGOL1 levels in group 1 oocytes could better protect against a premature separation of sister chromatids than in embryos derived from group 2 oocytes. The absence of BUB1 transcripts in group 1 was frequently associated with reduced expression of either mitotic cohesins or shugoshins. We hypothesize that ablation of BUB1 could induce mitotic arrest in oocytes that fail to express a complete complement of cohesins and shugoshins, thereby reducing the number of developing aneuploid preimplantation embryos.
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- Catherine Dupont
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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Krenn V, Wehenkel A, Li X, Santaguida S, Musacchio A. Structural analysis reveals features of the spindle checkpoint kinase Bub1-kinetochore subunit Knl1 interaction. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 196:451-67. [PMID: 22331848 PMCID: PMC3283998 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201110013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The function of the essential checkpoint kinases Bub1 and BubR1 requires their recruitment to mitotic kinetochores. Kinetochore recruitment of Bub1 and BubR1 is proposed to rely on the interaction of the tetratricopeptide repeats (TPRs) of Bub1 and BubR1 with two KI motifs in the outer kinetochore protein Knl1. We determined the crystal structure of the Bub1 TPRs in complex with the cognate Knl1 KI motif and compared it with the structure of the equivalent BubR1TPR-KI motif complex. The interaction developed along the convex surface of the TPR assembly. Point mutations on this surface impaired the interaction of Bub1 and BubR1 with Knl1 in vitro and in vivo but did not cause significant displacement of Bub1 and BubR1 from kinetochores. Conversely, a 62-residue segment of Bub1 that includes a binding domain for the checkpoint protein Bub3 and is C terminal to the TPRs was necessary and largely sufficient for kinetochore recruitment of Bub1. These results shed light on the determinants of kinetochore recruitment of Bub1.
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- Veronica Krenn
- Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, 20139 Milan, Italy
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Yamada HY, Yao Y, Wang X, Zhang Y, Huang Y, Dai W, Rao CV. Haploinsufficiency of SGO1 results in deregulated centrosome dynamics, enhanced chromosomal instability and colon tumorigenesis. Cell Cycle 2012; 11:479-88. [PMID: 22262168 PMCID: PMC3315092 DOI: 10.4161/cc.11.3.18994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2011] [Revised: 12/01/2011] [Accepted: 12/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Chromosome instability (CIN) is found in 85% of colorectal cancers. Defects in mitotic processes are implicated in high CIN and may be critical events in colorectal tumorigenesis. Shugoshin-1 (SGO1) aids in the maintenance of chromosome cohesion and prevents premature chromosome separation and CIN. In addition, integrity of the centrosome may be compromised due to the deficiency of Cohesin and Sgo1 through the disengagement of centrioles. We report here the generation and characterization of SGO1-mutant mice and show that haploinsufficiency of SGO1 leads to enhanced colonic tumorigenesis. Complete disruption of SGO1 results in embryonic lethality, whereas SGO1+/- mice are viable and fertile. Haploinsufficiency of SGO1 results in genomic instability manifested as missegregation of chromosomes and formation of extra centrosomal foci in both murine embryonic fibroblasts and adult bone marrow cells. Enhanced CIN observed in SGO1-deficient mice resulted in an increase in formation of aberrant crypt foci (ACF) and accelerated development of tumors after exposure to azoxymethane (AOM), a colon carcinogen. Together, these results suggest that haploinsufficiency of SGO1 causes enhanced CIN, colonic preneoplastic lesions and tumorigenesis in mice. SGO1 is essential for the suppression of CIN and tumor formation.
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- Hiroshi Y Yamada
- Center for Chemoprevention and Cancer Drug Development; Department of Medicine; Medical Oncology Section; University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; PCS Oklahoma Cancer Center; Oklahoma City, OK USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine; New York University School of Medicine; Tuxedo, NY USA
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School; Boston, MA USA
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- Center for Chemoprevention and Cancer Drug Development; Department of Medicine; Medical Oncology Section; University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; PCS Oklahoma Cancer Center; Oklahoma City, OK USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine; New York University School of Medicine; Tuxedo, NY USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine; New York University School of Medicine; Tuxedo, NY USA
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- Center for Chemoprevention and Cancer Drug Development; Department of Medicine; Medical Oncology Section; University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; PCS Oklahoma Cancer Center; Oklahoma City, OK USA
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Barr FA, Elliott PR, Gruneberg U. Protein phosphatases and the regulation of mitosis. J Cell Sci 2011; 124:2323-34. [PMID: 21709074 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.087106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Dynamic control of protein phosphorylation is necessary for the regulation of many cellular processes, including mitosis and cytokinesis. Indeed, although the central role of protein kinases is widely appreciated and intensely studied, the importance of protein phosphatases is often overlooked. Recent studies, however, have highlighted the considerable role of protein phosphatases in both the spatial and temporal control of protein kinase activity, and the modulation of substrate phosphorylation. Here, we will focus on recent advances in our understanding of phosphatase structure, and the importance of phosphatase function in the control of mitotic spindle formation, chromosome architecture and cohesion, and cell division.
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- Francis A Barr
- University of Liverpool, Cancer Research Centre, 200 London Road, Liverpool L3 9TA, UK.
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Zou H. The sister bonding of duplicated chromosomes. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2011; 22:566-71. [PMID: 21497666 PMCID: PMC3142318 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2011.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2011] [Revised: 03/23/2011] [Accepted: 03/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Sister chromatid cohesion and separation are two fundamental chromosome dynamics that are essential to equal chromosome segregation during cell proliferation. In this review, I will discuss the major steps that regulate these dynamics during mitosis, with an emphasis on vertebrate cells. The implications of these machineries outside of sister chromatid cohesion and separation are also discussed.
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- Hui Zou
- Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75252-9148, United States.
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Daum JR, Potapova TA, Sivakumar S, Daniel JJ, Flynn JN, Rankin S, Gorbsky GJ. Cohesion fatigue induces chromatid separation in cells delayed at metaphase. Curr Biol 2011; 21:1018-24. [PMID: 21658943 PMCID: PMC3119564 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.05.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2011] [Revised: 04/05/2011] [Accepted: 05/17/2011] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Chromosome instability is thought to be a major contributor to cancer malignancy and birth defects. For balanced chromosome segregation in mitosis, kinetochores on sister chromatids bind and pull on microtubules emanating from opposite spindle poles. This tension contributes to the correction of improper kinetochore attachments and is opposed by the cohesin complex that holds the sister chromatids together. Normally, within minutes of alignment at the metaphase plate, chromatid cohesion is released, allowing each cohort of chromatids to move synchronously to opposite poles in anaphase, an event closely coordinated with mitotic exit. RESULTS Here we show that during experimentally induced metaphase delay, spindle pulling forces can cause asynchronous chromatid separation, a phenomenon we term "cohesion fatigue." Cohesion fatigue is not blocked by inhibition of Plk1, a kinase essential for the "prophase pathway" of cohesin release from chromosomes, or by depletion of separase, the protease that normally drives chromatid separation at anaphase. Cohesion fatigue is inhibited by drug-induced depolymerization of mitotic spindle microtubules and by experimentally increasing the levels of cohesin on mitotic chromosomes. In cells undergoing cohesion fatigue, cohesin proteins remain associated with the separated chromatids. CONCLUSION In cells arrested at metaphase, pulling forces originating from kinetochore-microtubule interactions can, with time, rupture normal sister chromatid cohesion. This cohesion fatigue, resulting in unscheduled chromatid separation in cells delayed at metaphase, constitutes a previously overlooked source for chromosome instability in mitosis and meiosis.
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- John R Daum
- Program in Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
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Bub1 and BubR1: at the interface between chromosome attachment and the spindle checkpoint. Mol Cell Biol 2011; 31:3085-93. [PMID: 21628528 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.05326-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The spindle checkpoint ensures genome fidelity by temporarily halting chromosome segregation and the ensuing mitotic exit until the last kinetochore is productively attached to the mitotic spindle. At the interface between proper chromosome attachment and the metaphase-to-anaphase transition are the mammalian spindle checkpoint kinases. Compelling evidence indicates that the checkpoint kinases Bub1 and BubR1 have the added task of regulating kinetochore-microtubule attachments. However, the debate on the requirement of kinase activity is in full swing. This minireview summarizes recent advances in our understanding of the core spindle checkpoint kinases Bub1 and BubR1 and considers evidence that supports and opposes the role of kinase activity in regulating their functions during mitosis.
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Mitosis is associated with profound changes in cell physiology and a spectacular surge in protein phosphorylation. To accomplish these, a remarkably large portion of the kinome is involved in the process. In the present review, we will focus on classic mitotic kinases, such as cyclin-dependent kinases, Polo-like kinases and Aurora kinases, as well as more recently characterized players such as NIMA (never in mitosis in Aspergillus nidulans)-related kinases, Greatwall and Haspin. Together, these kinases co-ordinate the proper timing and fidelity of processes including centrosomal functions, spindle assembly and microtubule-kinetochore attachment, as well as sister chromatid separation and cytokinesis. A recurrent theme of the mitotic kinase network is the prevalence of elaborated feedback loops that ensure bistable conditions. Sequential phosphorylation and priming phosphorylation on substrates are also frequently employed. Another important concept is the role of scaffolds, such as centrosomes for protein kinases during mitosis. Elucidating the entire repertoire of mitotic kinases, their functions, regulation and interactions is critical for our understanding of normal cell growth and in diseases such as cancers.
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A novel tumor-derived SGOL1 variant causes abnormal mitosis and unstable chromatid cohesion. Oncogene 2011; 30:4453-63. [DOI: 10.1038/onc.2011.152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Mutual regulation between the spindle checkpoint and APC/C. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2011; 22:551-8. [PMID: 21439394 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2011.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2011] [Accepted: 03/16/2011] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis is critical for maintaining genomic stability. The spindle checkpoint is a cellular surveillance system that ensures the fidelity of chromosome segregation. In response to sister chromatids not properly captured by spindle microtubules, the spindle checkpoint interferes with the functions of Cdc20, the mitotic activator of the anaphase-promoting complex or cyclosome (APC/C), thereby blocking APC/C-mediated degradation of securin and cyclin B to delay anaphase onset. This review summarizes the recent progress on the mechanisms by which checkpoint proteins inhibit APC/C, the conformational and enzymatic activation of checkpoint proteins, and the emerging roles of APC/C-dependent ubiquitination in checkpoint inactivation.
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Storchová Z, Becker JS, Talarek N, Kögelsberger S, Pellman D. Bub1, Sgo1, and Mps1 mediate a distinct pathway for chromosome biorientation in budding yeast. Mol Biol Cell 2011; 22:1473-85. [PMID: 21389114 PMCID: PMC3084670 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e10-08-0673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The conserved mitotic kinase Bub1 performs multiple functions that are only partially characterized. Besides its role in the spindle assembly checkpoint and chromosome alignment, Bub1 is crucial for the kinetochore recruitment of multiple proteins, among them Sgo1. Both Bub1 and Sgo1 are dispensable for growth of haploid and diploid budding yeast, but they become essential in cells with higher ploidy. We find that overexpression of SGO1 partially corrects the chromosome segregation defect of bub1Δ haploid cells and restores viability to bub1Δ tetraploid cells. Using an unbiased high-copy suppressor screen, we identified two members of the chromosomal passenger complex (CPC), BIR1 (survivin) and SLI15 (INCENP, inner centromere protein), as suppressors of the growth defect of both bub1Δ and sgo1Δ tetraploids, suggesting that these mutants die due to defects in chromosome biorientation. Overexpression of BIR1 or SLI15 also complements the benomyl sensitivity of haploid bub1Δ and sgo1Δ cells. Mutants lacking SGO1 fail to biorient sister chromatids attached to the same spindle pole (syntelic attachment) after nocodazole treatment. Moreover, the sgo1Δ cells accumulate syntelic attachments in unperturbed mitoses, a defect that is partially corrected by BIR1 or SLI15 overexpression. We show that in budding yeast neither Bub1 nor Sgo1 is required for CPC localization or affects Aurora B activity. Instead we identify Sgo1 as a possible partner of Mps1, a mitotic kinase suggested to have an Aurora B-independent function in establishment of biorientation. We found that Sgo1 overexpression rescues defects caused by metaphase inactivation of Mps1 and that Mps1 is required for Sgo1 localization to the kinetochore. We propose that Bub1, Sgo1, and Mps1 facilitate chromosome biorientation independently of the Aurora B-mediated pathway at the budding yeast kinetochore and that both pathways are required for the efficient turnover of syntelic attachments.
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- Zuzana Storchová
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Cohesin is a conserved multisubunit protein complex with diverse cellular roles, making key contributions to the coordination of chromosome segregation, the DNA damage response and chromatin regulation by epigenetic mechanisms. Much has been learned in recent years about the roles of cohesin in a physiological context, whereas its potential and emerging role in tumour initiation and/or progression has received relatively little attention. In this Opinion article we examine how cohesin deregulation could contribute to cancer development on the basis of its physiological roles.
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- Huiling Xu
- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria 8006, Australia
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During meiosis, DNA replication is followed by 2 successive chromosome segregation events, resulting in the production of gametes with a haploid number of chromosomes from a diploid precursor cell. Faithful chromosome segregation in meiosis requires that sister chromatid cohesion is lost from chromosome arms during meiosis I, but retained at centromeric regions until meiosis II. Recent studies have begun to uncover the mechanisms underlying this stepwise loss of cohesion in meiosis and the role of a conserved protein, shugoshin, in regulating this process.
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- The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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