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Chen C, Lim HH, Shi J, Tamura S, Maeshima K, Surana U, Gan L. Budding yeast chromatin is dispersed in a crowded nucleoplasm in vivo. Mol Biol Cell 2016; 27:3357-3368. [PMID: 27605704 PMCID: PMC5170867 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e16-07-0506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Accepted: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Chromatin organization has an important role in the regulation of eukaryotic systems. Although recent studies have refined the three-dimensional models of chromatin organization with high resolution at the genome sequence level, little is known about how the most fundamental units of chromatin-nucleosomes-are positioned in three dimensions in vivo. Here we use electron cryotomography to study chromatin organization in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Direct visualization of yeast nuclear densities shows no evidence of 30-nm fibers. Aside from preribosomes and spindle microtubules, few nuclear structures are larger than a tetranucleosome. Yeast chromatin does not form compact structures in interphase or mitosis and is consistent with being in an "open" configuration that is conducive to high levels of transcription. From our study and those of others, we propose that yeast can regulate its transcription using local nucleosome-nucleosome associations.
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- Chen Chen
- Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for BioImaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Proteos, Singapore 138673, Singapore.,Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore 138668, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for BioImaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- National Institute of Genetics and Sokendai, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
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- National Institute of Genetics and Sokendai, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Proteos, Singapore 138673, Singapore.,Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore 138668, Singapore.,Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for BioImaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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Fees CP, Aiken J, O'Toole ET, Giddings TH, Moore JK. The negatively charged carboxy-terminal tail of β-tubulin promotes proper chromosome segregation. Mol Biol Cell 2016; 27:1786-96. [PMID: 27053662 PMCID: PMC4884069 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e15-05-0300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2015] [Accepted: 03/30/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Microtubules are essential for chromosome segregation. A study of the mechanistic contributions of tubulin proteins identifies a specific role for the negatively charged carboxy-terminal tail domain of b-tubulin in positioning kinetochores in the mitotic spindle and ensuring efficient and accurate chromosome segregation. Despite the broadly conserved role of microtubules in chromosome segregation, we have a limited understanding of how molecular features of tubulin proteins contribute to the underlying mechanisms. Here we investigate the negatively charged carboxy-terminal tail domains (CTTs) of α- and β-tubulins, using a series of mutants that alter or ablate CTTs in budding yeast. We find that ablating β-CTT causes elevated rates of chromosome loss and cell cycle delay. Complementary live-cell imaging and electron tomography show that β-CTT is necessary to properly position kinetochores and organize microtubules within the assembling spindle. We identify a minimal region of negatively charged amino acids that is necessary and sufficient for proper chromosome segregation and provide evidence that this function may be conserved across species. Our results provide the first in vivo evidence of a specific role for tubulin CTTs in chromosome segregation. We propose that β-CTT promotes the ordered segregation of chromosomes by stabilizing the spindle and contributing to forces that move chromosomes toward the spindle poles.
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- Colby P Fees
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Boulder Laboratory for 3D Electron Microscopy of Cells, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045
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Herrero E, Thorpe PH. Synergistic Control of Kinetochore Protein Levels by Psh1 and Ubr2. PLoS Genet 2016; 12:e1005855. [PMID: 26891228 PMCID: PMC4758618 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 01/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The accurate segregation of chromosomes during cell division is achieved by attachment of chromosomes to the mitotic spindle via the kinetochore, a large multi-protein complex that assembles on centromeres. The budding yeast kinetochore comprises more than 60 different proteins. Although the structure and function of many of these proteins has been investigated, we have little understanding of the steady state regulation of kinetochores. The primary model of kinetochore homeostasis suggests that kinetochores assemble hierarchically from the centromeric DNA via the inclusion of a centromere-specific histone into chromatin. We tested this model by trying to perturb kinetochore protein levels by overexpressing an outer kinetochore gene, MTW1. This increase in protein failed to change protein recruitment, consistent with the hierarchical assembly model. However, we find that deletion of Psh1, a key ubiquitin ligase that is known to restrict inner kinetochore protein loading, does not increase levels of outer kinetochore proteins, thus breaking the normal kinetochore stoichiometry. This perturbation leads to chromosome segregation defects, which can be partially suppressed by mutation of Ubr2, a second ubiquitin ligase that normally restricts protein levels at the outer kinetochore. Together these data show that Psh1 and Ubr2 synergistically control the amount of proteins at the kinetochore.
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- Eva Herrero
- The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
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- The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
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Fraschini R. Factors that Control Mitotic Spindle Dynamics. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2016; 925:89-101. [PMID: 27722958 DOI: 10.1007/5584_2016_74] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Mitosis is the last phase of the cell cycle and it leads to the formation of two daughter cells with the same genetic information. This process must occurr in a very precise way and this task is essential to preserve genetic stability and to maintain cell viability. Accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis is brought about by an important cellular organelle: the mitotic spindle. This structure is made of microtubules, polymers of alpha and beta tubulin, and it is highly dynamic during the cell cycle: it emanates from two microtubules organizing centers (Spindle Pole Bodies, SPBs, in yeast) that are essential to build a short bipolar spindle, and it undergoes two steps of elongation during anaphase A and anaphase B in order to separate sister chromatids. Several proteins are involved in the control of mitotic spindle dynamics and their activity is tightly coordinated with other cell cycle events and with cell cycle progression.
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- Roberta Fraschini
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126, Milan, Italy.
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In Situ Cryo-Electron Tomography: A Post-Reductionist Approach to Structural Biology. J Mol Biol 2016; 428:332-343. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.09.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2015] [Revised: 09/28/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Zhou Y, Yang S, Mao T, Zhang Z. MAPanalyzer: a novel online tool for analyzing microtubule-associated proteins. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION 2015; 2015:bav108. [PMID: 26568329 PMCID: PMC4644220 DOI: 10.1093/database/bav108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 10/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The wide functional impacts of microtubules are unleashed and controlled by a battery of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). Specialists in the field appreciate the diversity of known MAPs and propel the identifications of novel MAPs. By contrast, there is neither specific database to record known MAPs, nor MAP predictor that can facilitate the discovery of potential MAPs. We here report the establishment of a MAP-centered online analysis tool MAPanalyzer, which consists of a MAP database and a MAP predictor. In the database, a core MAP dataset, which is fully manually curated from the literature, is further enriched by MAP information collected via automated pipeline. The core dataset, on the other hand, enables the building of a novel MAP predictor which combines specialized machine learning classifiers and the BLAST homology searching tool. Benchmarks on the curated testing dataset and the Arabidopsis thaliana whole genome dataset have shown that the proposed predictor outperforms not only its own components (i.e. the machine learning classifiers and BLAST), but also another popular homology searching tool, PSI-BLAST. Therefore, MAPanalyzer will serve as a promising computational resource for the investigations of MAPs. Database URL:http://systbio.cau.edu.cn/mappred/.
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- Yuan Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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Frankl A, Mari M, Reggiori F. Electron microscopy for ultrastructural analysis and protein localization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. MICROBIAL CELL 2015; 2:412-428. [PMID: 28357267 PMCID: PMC5349205 DOI: 10.15698/mic2015.11.237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a key model system for studying of a multitude of cellular processes because of its amenability to genetics, molecular biology and biochemical procedures. Ultrastructural examinations of this organism, though, are traditionally difficult because of the presence of a thick cell wall and the high density of cytoplasmic proteins. A series of recent methodological and technical developments, however, has revived interest in morphological analyses of yeast (e.g. 123). Here we present a review of established and new methods, from sample preparation to imaging, for the ultrastructural analysis of S. cerevisiae. We include information for the use of different fixation methods, embedding procedures, approaches for contrast enhancement, and sample visualization techniques, with references to successful examples. The goal of this review is to guide researchers that want to investigate a particular process at the ultrastructural level in yeast by aiding in the selection of the most appropriate approach to visualize a specific structure or subcellular compartment.
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- Andri Frankl
- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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McCoy KM, Tubman ES, Claas A, Tank D, Clancy SA, O'Toole ET, Berman J, Odde DJ. Physical limits on kinesin-5-mediated chromosome congression in the smallest mitotic spindles. Mol Biol Cell 2015; 26:3999-4014. [PMID: 26354423 PMCID: PMC4710232 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-10-1454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 09/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A characteristic feature of mitotic spindles is the congression of chromosomes near the spindle equator, a process mediated by dynamic kinetochore microtubules. A major challenge is to understand how precise, submicrometer-scale control of kinetochore micro-tubule dynamics is achieved in the smallest mitotic spindles, where the noisiness of microtubule assembly/disassembly will potentially act to overwhelm the spatial information that controls microtubule plus end-tip positioning to mediate congression. To better understand this fundamental limit, we conducted an integrated live fluorescence, electron microscopy, and modeling analysis of the polymorphic fungal pathogen Candida albicans, which contains one of the smallest known mitotic spindles (<1 μm). Previously, ScCin8p (kinesin-5 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae) was shown to mediate chromosome congression by promoting catastrophe of long kinetochore microtubules (kMTs). Using C. albicans yeast and hyphal kinesin-5 (Kip1p) heterozygotes (KIP1/kip1∆), we found that mutant spindles have longer kMTs than wild-type spindles, consistent with a less-organized spindle. By contrast, kinesin-8 heterozygous mutant (KIP3/kip3∆) spindles exhibited the same spindle organization as wild type. Of interest, spindle organization in the yeast and hyphal states was indistinguishable, even though yeast and hyphal cell lengths differ by two- to fivefold, demonstrating that spindle length regulation and chromosome congression are intrinsic to the spindle and largely independent of cell size. Together these results are consistent with a kinesin-5-mediated, length-dependent depolymerase activity that organizes chromosomes at the spindle equator in C. albicans to overcome fundamental noisiness in microtubule self-assembly. More generally, we define a dimensionless number that sets a fundamental physical limit for maintaining congression in small spindles in the face of assembly noise and find that C. albicans operates very close to this limit, which may explain why it has the smallest known mitotic spindle that still manifests the classic congression architecture.
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- Kelsey M McCoy
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 Boulder Laboratory for 3D Electron Microscopy of Cells, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Krefman NI, Drubin DG, Barnes G. Control of the spindle checkpoint by lateral kinetochore attachment and limited Mad1 recruitment. Mol Biol Cell 2015; 26:2620-39. [PMID: 26023090 PMCID: PMC4501360 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e15-05-0276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2015] [Accepted: 05/18/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The spindle checkpoint proteins Mad1 and Bub1 are dynamically recruited after induced de novo kinetochore assembly. Detached kinetochores compete with alternate binding sites in the nucleus to recruit Mad1 and Bub1 from very limited pools. Lateral kinetochore attachment to microtubules licenses Mad1 removal from kinetochores. We observed the dynamic recruitment of spindle checkpoint proteins Mad1 and Bub1 to detached kinetochores in budding yeast using real-time live-cell imaging and quantified recruitment in fixed cells. After induced de novo kinetochore assembly at one pair of sister centromeres, Mad1 appeared after the kinetochore protein Mtw1. Detached kinetochores were not associated with the nuclear envelope, so Mad1 does not anchor them to nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). Disrupting Mad1's NPC localization increased Mad1 recruitment to detached sister kinetochores. Conversely, increasing the number of detached kinetochores reduced the amount of Mad1 per detached kinetochore. Bub1 also relocalized completely from the spindle to detached sister centromeres after kinetochore assembly. After their capture by microtubules, Mad1 and Bub1 progressively disappeared from kinetochores. Sister chromatids that arrested with a lateral attachment to one microtubule exhibited half the Mad1 of fully detached sisters. We propose that detached kinetochores compete with alternate binding sites in the nucleus to recruit Mad1 and Bub1 from available pools that are small enough to be fully depleted by just one pair of detached kinetochores and that lateral attachment licenses Mad1 removal from kinetochores after a kinetic delay.
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- Nathaniel I Krefman
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Targeting of γ-tubulin complexes to microtubule organizing centers: conservation and divergence. Trends Cell Biol 2015; 25:296-307. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2014.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2014] [Revised: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 12/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hepperla AJ, Willey PT, Coombes CE, Schuster BM, Gerami-Nejad M, McClellan M, Mukherjee S, Fox J, Winey M, Odde DJ, O'Toole E, Gardner MK. Minus-end-directed Kinesin-14 motors align antiparallel microtubules to control metaphase spindle length. Dev Cell 2015; 31:61-72. [PMID: 25313961 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2013] [Revised: 05/28/2014] [Accepted: 07/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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During cell division, a microtubule-based mitotic spindle mediates the faithful segregation of duplicated chromosomes into daughter cells. Proper length control of the metaphase mitotic spindle is critical to this process and is thought to be achieved through a mechanism in which spindle pole separation forces from plus-end-directed motors are balanced by forces from minus-end-directed motors that pull spindle poles together. However, in contrast to this model, metaphase mitotic spindles with inactive kinesin-14 minus-end-directed motors often have shorter spindle lengths, along with poorly aligned spindle microtubules. A mechanistic explanation for this paradox is unknown. Using computational modeling, in vitro reconstitution, live-cell fluorescence microscopy, and electron microscopy, we now find that the budding yeast kinesin-14 molecular motor Kar3-Cik1 can efficiently align spindle microtubules along the spindle axis. This then allows plus-end-directed kinesin-5 motors to efficiently exert the outward microtubule sliding forces needed for proper spindle bipolarity.
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- Austin J Hepperla
- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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Ward JJ, Roque H, Antony C, Nédélec F. Mechanical design principles of a mitotic spindle. eLife 2014; 3:e03398. [PMID: 25521247 PMCID: PMC4290452 DOI: 10.7554/elife.03398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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An organised spindle is crucial to the fidelity of chromosome segregation, but the relationship between spindle structure and function is not well understood in any cell type. The anaphase B spindle in fission yeast has a slender morphology and must elongate against compressive forces. This 'pushing' mode of chromosome transport renders the spindle susceptible to breakage, as observed in cells with a variety of defects. Here we perform electron tomographic analyses of the spindle, which suggest that it organises a limited supply of structural components to increase its compressive strength. Structural integrity is maintained throughout the spindle's fourfold elongation by organising microtubules into a rigid transverse array, preserving correct microtubule number and dynamically rescaling microtubule length.
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- Jonathan J Ward
- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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Surana U, Liang H, Lim HH. Staging a recovery from mitotic arrest: Unusual ways of Cdk1. BIOARCHITECTURE 2014; 2:33-37. [PMID: 22754627 PMCID: PMC3383719 DOI: 10.4161/bioa.20421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Checkpoint controls, the surveillance pathways that impose "an order of execution" on the major cell cycle events, are critical to the maintenance of genome stability. When cells fail to execute a cellular event or do so erroneously due to misregulation or exposure to genotoxic stresses, these evolutionarily conserved regulatory circuits prevent passage to the subsequent event, thus bringing the cell cycle to a halt. Once the checkpoint stimulus is removed, cells recover from the arrest and eventually resume cell cycle progression. While the activation, execution and maintenance, the three major aspects of the checkpoint controls, have been investigated in detail, the recovery process remains underexplored. It is not clear if cells recover passively upon dissipation of the checkpoint signals or require an active participation by specific effectors. A recent study in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae uncovered two previously unsuspected functions of Cdk1 in efficient recovery from the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) imposed arrest. An inability to fulfil these requirements in the absence of Cdk1 makes it virtually impossible for cells to recover from the mitotic arrest. Given the conserved nature of the SAC, these findings may have implications for vertebrate cells.
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- Uttam Surana
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology; Proteos, Singapore
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Nannas NJ, O'Toole ET, Winey M, Murray AW. Chromosomal attachments set length and microtubule number in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitotic spindle. Mol Biol Cell 2014; 25:4034-48. [PMID: 25318669 PMCID: PMC4263447 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-01-0016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Altering the number of kinetochores revealed that chromosomal attachments set the length of the metaphase spindle and the number of microtubules within it. Reducing the number of kinetochores increases length, whereas adding extra kinetochores shortens it, suggesting that kinetochore-generated inward forces help set spindle length in budding yeast. The length of the mitotic spindle varies among different cell types. A simple model for spindle length regulation requires balancing two forces: pulling, due to microtubules that attach to the chromosomes at their kinetochores, and pushing, due to interactions between microtubules that emanate from opposite spindle poles. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we show that spindle length scales with kinetochore number, increasing when kinetochores are inactivated and shortening on addition of synthetic or natural kinetochores, showing that kinetochore–microtubule interactions generate an inward force to balance forces that elongate the spindle. Electron microscopy shows that manipulating kinetochore number alters the number of spindle microtubules: adding extra kinetochores increases the number of spindle microtubules, suggesting kinetochore-based regulation of microtubule number.
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- Natalie J Nannas
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Boulder Laboratory for 3D Electron Microscopy of Cells, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Edzuka T, Yamada L, Kanamaru K, Sawada H, Goshima G. Identification of the augmin complex in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans. PLoS One 2014; 9:e101471. [PMID: 25003582 PMCID: PMC4086812 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Accepted: 06/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Augmin is a protein complex that binds to spindle microtubules (MTs), recruits the potent MT nucleator, γ-tubulin, and thereby promotes the centrosome-independent MT generation within mitotic and meiotic spindles. Augmin is essential for acentrosomal spindle assembly, which is commonly observed during mitosis in plants and meiosis in female animals. In many animal somatic cells that possess centrosomes, the centrosome- and augmin-dependent mechanisms work cooperatively for efficient spindle assembly and cytokinesis. Yeasts have lost the augmin genes during evolution. It is hypothesized that their robust MT nucleation from the spindle pole body (SPB), the centrosome-equivalent structure in fungi, compensates for the lack of augmin. Intriguingly, however, a gene homologous to an augmin subunit (Aug6/AUGF) has been found in the genome of filamentous fungi, which has the SPB as a robust MT nucleation centre. Here, we aimed to clarify if the augmin complex is present in filamentous fungi and to identify its role in mitosis. By analysing the Aug6-like gene in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans, we found that it forms a large complex with several other proteins that share weak but significant homology to known augmin subunits. In A. nidulans, augmin was enriched at the SPB and also associated with spindle MTs during mitosis. However, the augmin gene disruptants did not exhibit growth defects under normal, checkpoint-deficient, or MT-destabilised conditions. Moreover, we obtained no evidence that A. nidulans augmin plays a role in γ-tubulin recruitment or in mitotic cell division. Our study uncovered the conservation of the augmin complex in the fungal species, and further suggests that augmin has several functions, besides mitotic spindle MT nucleation, that are yet to be identified.
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- Tomoya Edzuka
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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- Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Sugashima, Toba, Japan
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- Department of Biological Mechanisms and Functions, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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- Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Sugashima, Toba, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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A critical requirement for mitosis is the distribution of genetic material to the two daughter cells. The central player in this process is the macromolecular kinetochore structure, which binds to both chromosomal DNA and spindle microtubule polymers to direct chromosome alignment and segregation. This review will discuss the key kinetochore activities required for mitotic chromosome segregation, including the recognition of a specific site on each chromosome, kinetochore assembly and the formation of kinetochore-microtubule connections, the generation of force to drive chromosome segregation, and the regulation of kinetochore function to ensure that chromosome segregation occurs with high fidelity.
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- Iain M Cheeseman
- Whitehead Institute and Department of Biology, MIT Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Lin TC, Neuner A, Schlosser YT, Scharf AND, Weber L, Schiebel E. Cell-cycle dependent phosphorylation of yeast pericentrin regulates γ-TuSC-mediated microtubule nucleation. eLife 2014; 3:e02208. [PMID: 24842996 PMCID: PMC4034690 DOI: 10.7554/elife.02208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Budding yeast Spc110, a member of γ-tubulin complex receptor family (γ-TuCR), recruits γ-tubulin complexes to microtubule (MT) organizing centers (MTOCs). Biochemical studies suggest that Spc110 facilitates higher-order γ-tubulin complex assembly (Kollman et al., 2010). Nevertheless the molecular basis for this activity and the regulation are unclear. Here we show that Spc110 phosphorylated by Mps1 and Cdk1 activates γ-TuSC oligomerization and MT nucleation in a cell cycle dependent manner. Interaction between the N-terminus of the γ-TuSC subunit Spc98 and Spc110 is important for this activity. Besides the conserved CM1 motif in γ-TuCRs (Sawin et al., 2004), a second motif that we named Spc110/Pcp1 motif (SPM) is also important for MT nucleation. The activating Mps1 and Cdk1 sites lie between SPM and CM1 motifs. Most organisms have both SPM-CM1 (Spc110/Pcp1/PCNT) and CM1-only (Spc72/Mto1/Cnn/CDK5RAP2/myomegalin) types of γ-TuCRs. The two types of γ-TuCRs contain distinct but conserved C-terminal MTOC targeting domains. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02208.001 Microtubules are hollow structures made of proteins that have a central role in cell division and a variety of other important processes within cells. For a cell to divide successfully, the chromosomes containing the genetic information of the cell must be duplicated and then separated so that one copy of each chromosome ends up in each daughter cell. To separate the chromosomes, microtubules extend out from two structures called spindle pole bodies, which are found at either end of the cell, and pull one copy of each chromosome to opposite sides of the cell. Although the individual proteins that make up a microtubule can self-assemble into tubes, this occurs very slowly, so cells employ other molecules to speed up this process. In yeast cells, a protein called gamma-tubulin is recruited to the spindle pole body by the protein Spc110, where it combines with two other proteins to form a complex called the gamma-tubulin small complex. Several of these complexes then join together to form a ring, which probably acts as the platform that microtubules grow from. Recent observations suggested that Spc110 may help to construct this ring, but without revealing how. Now, Lin et al. reveal that Spc110 can regulate microtubule formation by controlling how several gamma-tubulin small complexes bind together, and have identified the exact section of Spc110 that interacts with the complexes. However, the Spc110 must become active before it can perform this role, and it is only activated during certain stages of cell division, through phosphorylation. The structures in Spc110 that bind to the gamma-tubulin small complex in yeast are also found in gamma-tubulin binding receptor proteins in human cells. The work of Lin et al. demonstrates that proteins that are assumed to have passive roles within cells, such as Spc110, often play more active roles instead. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02208.002
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- Tien-Chen Lin
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie (ZMBH), Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany The Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie (ZMBH), Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie (ZMBH), Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie (ZMBH), Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie (ZMBH), Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie (ZMBH), Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Wang Y, Jin F, Higgins R, McKnight K. The current view for the silencing of the spindle assembly checkpoint. Cell Cycle 2014; 13:1694-701. [PMID: 24776751 DOI: 10.4161/cc.29027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Chromosome bipolar attachment is achieved when sister kinetochores are attached by microtubules emanating from opposite spindle poles, and this process is essential for faithful chromosome segregation during anaphase. A fundamental question in cell biology is how cells ensure that chromosome segregation only occurs after bipolar attachment. It is well documented that unattached kinetochores activate the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) to delay chromosome segregation. Therefore, the silencing of the SAC is thought to trigger anaphase onset, but how correct chromosome attachment is coupled with SAC silencing and the subsequent anaphase onset is poorly understood. The establishment of chromosome bipolar attachment not only results in the occupancy of kinetochores by microtubules but also applies tension on sister kinetochores. A long-standing debate is whether the kinetochore attachment (occupancy) or the tension silences the SAC. Recent work in budding yeast reveals the SAC silencing network SSN that prevents SAC silencing prior to tension generation at kinetochores. Therefore, this signaling pathway ensures that SAC silencing and the subsequent anaphase onset occur only after chromosome bipolar attachment applies tension on chromosomes. This review will summarize the recent advances in the understanding of the SAC silencing process.
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- Yanchang Wang
- Department of Biomedical Sciences; College of Medicine; Florida State University; Tallahassee, FL USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences; College of Medicine; Florida State University; Tallahassee, FL USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences; College of Medicine; Florida State University; Tallahassee, FL USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences; College of Medicine; Florida State University; Tallahassee, FL USA
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The nucleus is a cellular compartment that hosts several macro-molecular machines displaying a highly complex spatial organization. This tight architectural orchestration determines not only DNA replication and repair but also regulates gene expression. In budding yeast microtubules play a key role in structuring the nucleus since they condition the Rabl arrangement in G1 and chromosome partitioning during mitosis through their attachment to centromeres via the kinetochore proteins. Recently, we have shown that upon quiescence entry, intranuclear microtubules emanating from the spindle pole body elongate to form a highly stable bundle that spans the entire nucleus. Here, we examine some molecular mechanisms that may underlie the formation of this structure. As the intranuclear microtubule bundle causes a profound re-organization of the yeast nucleus and is required for cell survival during quiescence, we discuss the possibility that the assembly of such a structure participates in quiescence establishment.
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- Damien Laporte
- Université de Bordeaux; Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires; Bordeaux, France; CNRS; UMR5095 Bordeaux France; Bordeaux, France
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- Université de Bordeaux; Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires; Bordeaux, France; CNRS; UMR5095 Bordeaux France; Bordeaux, France
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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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Verzijlbergen KF, Nerusheva OO, Kelly D, Kerr A, Clift D, de Lima Alves F, Rappsilber J, Marston AL. Shugoshin biases chromosomes for biorientation through condensin recruitment to the pericentromere. eLife 2014; 3:e01374. [PMID: 24497542 PMCID: PMC3910079 DOI: 10.7554/elife.01374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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To protect against aneuploidy, chromosomes must attach to microtubules from opposite poles (‘biorientation’) prior to their segregation during mitosis. Biorientation relies on the correction of erroneous attachments by the aurora B kinase, which destabilizes kinetochore-microtubule attachments that lack tension. Incorrect attachments are also avoided because sister kinetochores are intrinsically biased towards capture by microtubules from opposite poles. Here, we show that shugoshin acts as a pericentromeric adaptor that plays dual roles in biorientation in budding yeast. Shugoshin maintains the aurora B kinase at kinetochores that lack tension, thereby engaging the error correction machinery. Shugoshin also recruits the chromosome-organizing complex, condensin, to the pericentromere. Pericentromeric condensin biases sister kinetochores towards capture by microtubules from opposite poles. Our findings uncover the molecular basis of the bias to sister kinetochore capture and expose shugoshin as a pericentromeric hub controlling chromosome biorientation. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01374.001 When a cell divides to create two new daughter cells, it must produce a copy of each of its chromosomes. It is important that each daughter cell gets just one copy of each chromosome. If an error occurs and one cell gets two copies of a single chromosome, it can lead to cancer or birth defects. Fortunately, there are multiple checks to ensure that this does not happen. During cell division the chromosomes line up in a way that increases the likelihood that each daughter cell will have one copy of each chromosome. After this process—which is called biorientation—is completed, microtubules pull the chromosomes to opposite ends of the cell, which then divides. Proteins called shugoshin proteins are known to be involved in biorientation in many organisms. These proteins are found in a region called the pericentromere, which surrounds the area on the chromosomes that the microtubules attach to, but the details of their involvement in biorientation are not fully understood. Now Verzijlbergen et al. have exploited sophisticated genetic techniques in yeast to explore how shugoshin proteins work. These experiments showed that the shugoshin protein helps to recruit condensin—a protein that keeps the DNA organized within the chromosome—to the pericentromere to assist with biorientation. It also keeps aurora B kinase—one of the enzymes that helps to correct errors during cell division—in the pericentromere when a microtubule attaches to the wrong chromosome. These results help us understand how a ‘hub’ in the pericentromere ensures biorientation. The next challenge will be to understand how this hub is disassembled after biorientation to allow error-free cell division to proceed. As shugoshins have been found to be damaged in some cancers, understanding the workings of this hub could also shed new light on how they contribute to disease. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01374.002
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- Kitty F Verzijlbergen
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Marston AL. Chromosome segregation in budding yeast: sister chromatid cohesion and related mechanisms. Genetics 2014; 196:31-63. [PMID: 24395824 PMCID: PMC3872193 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.145144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Studies on budding yeast have exposed the highly conserved mechanisms by which duplicated chromosomes are evenly distributed to daughter cells at the metaphase-anaphase transition. The establishment of proteinaceous bridges between sister chromatids, a function provided by a ring-shaped complex known as cohesin, is central to accurate segregation. It is the destruction of this cohesin that triggers the segregation of chromosomes following their proper attachment to microtubules. Since it is irreversible, this process must be tightly controlled and driven to completion. Furthermore, during meiosis, modifications must be put in place to allow the segregation of maternal and paternal chromosomes in the first division for gamete formation. Here, I review the pioneering work from budding yeast that has led to a molecular understanding of the establishment and destruction of cohesion.
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- Adele L Marston
- The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, United Kingdom
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Redemann S, Weber B, Möller M, Verbavatz JM, Hyman AA, Baum D, Prohaska S, Müller-Reichert T. The segmentation of microtubules in electron tomograms using Amira. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1136:261-278. [PMID: 24633801 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0329-0_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The development of automatic tools for the three-dimensional reconstruction of the microtubule cytoskeleton is crucial for large-scale analysis of mitotic spindles. Recently, we have published a method for the semiautomatic tracing of microtubules based on 3D template matching (Weber et al., J Struct Biol 178:129-138, 2012). Here, we give step-by-step instructions for the automatic tracing of microtubules emanating from centrosomes in the early mitotic Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. This approach, integrated in the visualization and data analysis software Amira, is applicable to tomographic data sets from other model systems.
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- Stefanie Redemann
- Experimental Center, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus , Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 74, 01307, Dresden, Germany
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Stephens AD, Quammen CW, Chang B, Haase J, Taylor RM, Bloom K. The spatial segregation of pericentric cohesin and condensin in the mitotic spindle. Mol Biol Cell 2013; 24:3909-19. [PMID: 24152737 PMCID: PMC3861086 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-06-0325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2013] [Revised: 09/19/2013] [Accepted: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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In mitosis, the pericentromere is organized into a spring composed of cohesin, condensin, and a rosette of intramolecular chromatin loops. Cohesin and condensin are enriched in the pericentromere, with spatially distinct patterns of localization. Using model convolution of computer simulations, we deduce the mechanistic consequences of their spatial segregation. Condensin lies proximal to the spindle axis, whereas cohesin is radially displaced from condensin and the interpolar microtubules. The histone deacetylase Sir2 is responsible for the axial position of condensin, while the radial displacement of chromatin loops dictates the position of cohesin. The heterogeneity in distribution of condensin is most accurately modeled by clusters along the spindle axis. In contrast, cohesin is evenly distributed (barrel of 500-nm width × 550-nm length). Models of cohesin gradients that decay from the centromere or sister cohesin axis, as previously suggested, do not match experimental images. The fine structures of cohesin and condensin deduced with subpixel localization accuracy reveal critical features of how these complexes mold pericentric chromatin into a functional spring.
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- Andrew D. Stephens
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
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- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
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- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
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Miller MP, Amon A, Ünal E. Meiosis I: when chromosomes undergo extreme makeover. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2013; 25:687-96. [PMID: 23916768 PMCID: PMC3836829 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2013.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2013] [Revised: 07/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/15/2013] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The ultimate success of cell division relies on the accurate partitioning of the genetic material. Errors in this process occur in nearly all tumors and are the leading cause of miscarriages and congenital birth defects in humans. Two cell divisions, mitosis and meiosis, use common as well as unique mechanisms to ensure faithful chromosome segregation. In mitosis, alternating rounds of DNA replication and chromosome segregation preserve the chromosome complement of the progenitor cell. In contrast, during meiosis two consecutive rounds of nuclear division, meiosis I and meiosis II, follow a single round of DNA replication to reduce the chromosome complement by half. Meiosis likely evolved through changes to the mitotic cell division program. This review will focus on the recent findings describing the modifications that transform mitosis into meiosis.
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- Matthew P. Miller
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Marco E, Dorn JF, Hsu PH, Jaqaman K, Sorger PK, Danuser G. S. cerevisiae chromosomes biorient via gradual resolution of syntely between S phase and anaphase. Cell 2013; 154:1127-1139. [PMID: 23993100 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2012] [Revised: 05/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/07/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Following DNA replication, eukaryotic cells must biorient all sister chromatids prior to cohesion cleavage at anaphase. In animal cells, sister chromatids gradually biorient during prometaphase, but current models of mitosis in S. cerevisiae assume that biorientation is established shortly after S phase. This assumption is based on the observation of a bilobed distribution of yeast kinetochores early in mitosis and suggests fundamental differences between yeast mitosis and mitosis in animal cells. By applying super-resolution imaging methods, we show that yeast and animal cells share the key property of gradual and stochastic chromosome biorientation. The characteristic bilobed distribution of yeast kinetochores, hitherto considered synonymous for biorientation, arises from kinetochores in mixed attachment states to microtubules, the length of which discriminates bioriented from syntelic attachments. Our results offer a revised view of mitotic progression in S. cerevisiae that augments the relevance of mechanistic information obtained in this powerful genetic system for mammalian mitosis.
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- Eugenio Marco
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal QC H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Lemieux JE, Kyes SA, Otto TD, Feller AI, Eastman RT, Pinches RA, Berriman M, Su XZ, Newbold CI. Genome-wide profiling of chromosome interactions in Plasmodium falciparum characterizes nuclear architecture and reconfigurations associated with antigenic variation. Mol Microbiol 2013; 90:519-37. [PMID: 23980881 PMCID: PMC3894959 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Spatial relationships within the eukaryotic nucleus are essential for proper nuclear function. In Plasmodium falciparum, the repositioning of chromosomes has been implicated in the regulation of the expression of genes responsible for antigenic variation, and the formation of a single, peri-nuclear nucleolus results in the clustering of rDNA. Nevertheless, the precise spatial relationships between chromosomes remain poorly understood, because, until recently, techniques with sufficient resolution have been lacking. Here we have used chromosome conformation capture and second-generation sequencing to study changes in chromosome folding and spatial positioning that occur during switches in var gene expression. We have generated maps of chromosomal spatial affinities within the P. falciparum nucleus at 25 Kb resolution, revealing a structured nucleolus, an absence of chromosome territories, and confirming previously identified clustering of heterochromatin foci. We show that switches in var gene expression do not appear to involve interaction with a distant enhancer, but do result in local changes at the active locus. These maps reveal the folding properties of malaria chromosomes, validate known physical associations, and characterize the global landscape of spatial interactions. Collectively, our data provide critical information for a better understanding of gene expression regulation and antigenic variation in malaria parasites.
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- Jacob E Lemieux
- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH, Rockville, MD, 20892, USA
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Chacón JM, Gardner MK. Analysis and Modeling of Chromosome Congression During Mitosis in the Chemotherapy Drug Cisplatin. Cell Mol Bioeng 2013; 6:406-417. [PMID: 24563677 DOI: 10.1007/s12195-013-0306-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The chemotherapy drug Cisplatin (cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)) induces crosslinks within and between DNA strands, and between DNA and nearby proteins. Therefore, Cisplatin-treated cells which progress into cell division may do so with altered chromosome mechanical properties. This could have important consequences for the successful completion of mitosis. Using Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy of live Cisplatin-treated Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, we found that metaphase mitotic spindles have disorganized kinetochores relative to untreated cells, and also that there is increased variability in the chromosome stretching distance between sister centromeres. This suggests that chromosome stiffness may become more variable after Cisplatin treatment. We explored the effect of variable chromosome stiffness during mitosis using a stochastic model in which kinetochore microtubule dynamics were regulated by tension imparted by stretched sister chromosomes. Consistent with experimental results, increased variability of chromosome stiffness in the model led to disorganization of kinetochores in simulated metaphase mitotic spindles. Furthermore, the variability in simulated chromosome stretching tension was increased as chromosome stiffness became more variable. Because proper chromosome stretching tension may serve as a signal that is required for proper progression through mitosis, tension variability could act to impair this signal and thus prevent proper mitotic progression. Our results suggest a possible mitotic mode of action for the anti-cancer drug Cisplatin.
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- Jeremy M Chacón
- Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 55455
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- Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 55455
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Farrell M, Gubbels MJ. The Toxoplasma gondii kinetochore is required for centrosome association with the centrocone (spindle pole). Cell Microbiol 2013; 16:78-94. [PMID: 24015880 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2013] [Revised: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/14/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The kinetochore is a multi-protein structure assembled on eukaryotic centromeres mediating chromosome attachment to spindle microtubules. Here we identified the kinetochore proteins Nuf2 and Ndc80 in the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Localization revealed that kinetochores remain clustered throughout the cell cycle and colocalize with clustered centromeres at the centrocone, a structure containing the spindle pole embedded in the nuclear envelope. Pharmacological disruption of microtubules resulted in partial loss of some kinetochore and centromere clustering, indicating microtubules are necessary but not strictly required for kinetochore clustering. Generation of a TgNuf2 conditional knock-down strain revealed it is essential for chromosome segregation, but dispensable for centromere clustering. The centromeres actually remained associated with the centrocone suggesting microtubule binding is not required for their interaction with the spindle pole. The most striking observation upon TgNuf2 depletion was that the centrosome behaved normally, but that it lost its association with the centrocone. This suggests that microtubules are essential to maintain contact between the centrosome and chromosomes, and this interaction is critical for the partitioning of the nuclei into the two daughter parasites. Finally, genetic complementation experiments with mutated TgNuf2 constructs highlighted an apicomplexan-specific motif with a putative role in nuclear localization.
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- Megan Farrell
- Department of Biology, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Higgins Hall 355, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA
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Choy JS, O'Toole E, Schuster BM, Crisp MJ, Karpova TS, McNally JG, Winey M, Gardner MK, Basrai MA. Genome-wide haploinsufficiency screen reveals a novel role for γ-TuSC in spindle organization and genome stability. Mol Biol Cell 2013; 24:2753-63. [PMID: 23825022 PMCID: PMC3756926 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e12-12-0902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2012] [Revised: 06/19/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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How subunit dosage contributes to the assembly and function of multimeric complexes is an important question with implications in understanding biochemical, evolutionary, and disease mechanisms. Toward identifying pathways that are susceptible to decreased gene dosage, we performed a genome-wide screen for haploinsufficient (HI) genes that guard against genome instability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This led to the identification of all three genes (SPC97, SPC98, and TUB4) encoding the evolutionarily conserved γ-tubulin small complex (γ-TuSC), which nucleates microtubule assembly. We found that hemizygous γ-TuSC mutants exhibit higher rates of chromosome loss and increases in anaphase spindle length and elongation velocities. Fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, electron tomography, and model convolution simulation of spc98/+ mutants revealed improper regulation of interpolar (iMT) and kinetochore (kMT) microtubules in anaphase. The underlying cause is likely due to reduced levels of Tub4, as overexpression of TUB4 suppressed the spindle and chromosome segregation defects in spc98/+ mutants. We propose that γ-TuSC is crucial for balanced assembly between iMTs and kMTs for spindle organization and accurate chromosome segregation. Taken together, the results show how gene dosage studies provide critical insights into the assembly and function of multisubunit complexes that may not be revealed by using traditional studies with haploid gene deletion or conditional alleles.
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- John S. Choy
- Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Fluorescent Imaging Facility, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Fluorescent Imaging Facility, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Nazarova E, O'Toole E, Kaitna S, Francois P, Winey M, Vogel J. Distinct roles for antiparallel microtubule pairing and overlap during early spindle assembly. Mol Biol Cell 2013; 24:3238-50. [PMID: 23966467 PMCID: PMC3806661 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-05-0232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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During spindle assembly, microtubules may attach to kinetochores or pair to form antiparallel pairs or interpolar microtubules, which span the two spindle poles and contribute to mitotic pole separation and chromosome segregation. Events in the specification of the interpolar microtubules are poorly understood. Using three-dimensional electron tomography and analysis of spindle dynamical behavior in living cells, we investigated the process of spindle assembly. Unexpectedly, we found that the phosphorylation state of an evolutionarily conserved Cdk1 site (S360) in γ-tubulin is correlated with the number and organization of interpolar microtubules. Mimicking S360 phosphorylation (S360D) results in bipolar spindles with a normal number of microtubules but lacking interpolar microtubules. Inhibiting S360 phosphorylation (S360A) results in spindles with interpolar microtubules and high-angle, antiparallel microtubule pairs. The latter are also detected in wild-type spindles <1 μm in length, suggesting that high-angle microtubule pairing represents an intermediate step in interpolar microtubule formation. Correlation of spindle architecture with dynamical behavior suggests that microtubule pairing is sufficient to separate the spindle poles, whereas interpolar microtubules maintain the velocity of pole displacement during early spindle assembly. Our findings suggest that the number of interpolar microtubules formed during spindle assembly is controlled in part through activities at the spindle poles.
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- Elena Nazarova
- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3G 0B1, Canada Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3G 0B1, Canada Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO 80309
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Burrack LS, Applen Clancey SE, Chacón JM, Gardner MK, Berman J. Monopolin recruits condensin to organize centromere DNA and repetitive DNA sequences. Mol Biol Cell 2013; 24:2807-19. [PMID: 23885115 PMCID: PMC3771944 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-05-0229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Higher-order structure of chromatin is essential for chromosome segregation and repetitive DNA stability. Monopolin recruits condensin to organize centromere DNA irrespective of the number of kinetochore–microtubule attachments. In addition, the role of monopolin in stabilizing repeat tracts observed in budding yeast is conserved in Candida albicans. The establishment and maintenance of higher-order structure at centromeres is essential for accurate chromosome segregation. The monopolin complex is thought to cross-link multiple kinetochore complexes to prevent merotelic attachments that result in chromosome missegregation. This model is based on structural analysis and the requirement that monopolin execute mitotic and meiotic chromosome segregation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which has more than one kinetochore–microtubule attachment/centromere, and co-orient sister chromatids in meiosis I in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Recent data from S. pombe suggest an alternative possibility: that the recruitment of condensin is the primary function of monopolin. Here we test these models using the yeast Candida albicans. C. albicans cells lacking monopolin exhibit defects in chromosome segregation, increased distance between centromeres, and decreased stability of several types of repeat DNA. Of note, changing kinetochore–microtubule copy number from one to more than one kinetochore–microtubule/centromere does not alter the requirement for monopolin. Furthermore, monopolin recruits condensin to C. albicans centromeres, and overexpression of condensin suppresses chromosome segregation defects in strains lacking monopolin. We propose that the key function of monopolin is to recruit condensin in order to promote the assembly of higher-order structure at centromere and repetitive DNA.
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- Laura S Burrack
- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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Fridman V, Gerson-Gurwitz A, Shapira O, Movshovich N, Lakämper S, Schmidt CF, Gheber L. Kinesin-5 Kip1 is a bi-directional motor that stabilizes microtubules and tracks their plus-ends in vivo. J Cell Sci 2013; 126:4147-59. [PMID: 23868978 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.125153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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In this study, we examined the anaphase functions of the S. cerevisiae kinesin-5 homolog Kip1. We show that Kip1 is attached to the mitotic spindle midzone during late anaphase. This attachment is essential to stabilize interpolar microtubule (iMTs) plus-ends. By detailed examination of iMT dynamics we show that at the end of anaphase, iMTs depolymerize in two stages: during the first stage, one pair of anti-parallel iMTs depolymerizes at a velocity of 7.7 µm/minute; during the second stage, ∼90 seconds later, the remaining pair of iMTs depolymerizes at a slower velocity of 5.4 µm/minute. We show that upon the second depolymerization stage, which coincides with spindle breakdown, Kip1 follows the plus-ends of depolymerizing iMTs and translocates toward the spindle poles. This movement is independent of mitotic microtubule motor proteins or the major plus-end binding or tracking proteins. In addition, we show that Kip1 processively tracks the plus-ends of growing and shrinking MTs, both inside and outside the nucleus. The plus-end tracking activity of Kip1 requires its catalytic motor function, because a rigor mutant of Kip1 does not exhibit this activity. Finally, we show that Kip1 is a bi-directional motor: in vitro, at high ionic strength conditions, single Kip1 molecules move processively in the minus-end direction of the MTs, whereas in a multi-motor gliding assay, Kip1 is plus-end directed. The bi-directionality and plus-end tracking activity of Kip1, properties revealed here for the first time, allow Kip1 to perform its multiple functions in mitotic spindle dynamics and to partition the 2-micron plasmid.
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- Vladimir Fridman
- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Cane S, McGilvray PT, Maresca TJ. Insights from an erroneous kinetochore-microtubule attachment state. BIOARCHITECTURE 2013; 3:69-76. [PMID: 23887229 PMCID: PMC3782542 DOI: 10.4161/bioa.25734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Faithful distribution of the genome requires that sister kinetochores, which assemble on each chromatid during cell division, interact with dynamic microtubules from opposite spindle poles in a configuration called chromosome biorientation. Biorientation produces tension that increases the affinity of kinetochores for microtubules via ill-defined mechanisms. Non-bioriented kinetochore-microtubule (kt-MT) interactions are prevalent but short-lived due to an error correction pathway that reduces the affinity of kinetochores for microtubules. Interestingly, incorrect kt-MT interactions can be stabilized by experimentally applying force to misoriented chromosomes. Here, a live-cell force assay is utilized to characterize the molecular composition of a common type of improper kt-MT attachment. Our force-related studies are also discussed in the context of current models for tension-dependent stabilization of kt-MT interactions.
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- Stuart Cane
- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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A Sensitized Emission Based Calibration of FRET Efficiency for Probing the Architecture of Macromolecular Machines. Cell Mol Bioeng 2013; 6:369-382. [PMID: 24319499 PMCID: PMC3843746 DOI: 10.1007/s12195-013-0290-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2013] [Accepted: 07/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Macromolecular machines participate in almost every cell biological function. These machines can take the form of well-defined protein structures such as the kinetochore, or more loosely organized protein assemblies like the endocytic coat. The protein architecture of these machines—the arrangement of multiple copies of protein subunits at the nanoscale, is necessary for understanding their cell biological function and biophysical mechanism. Defining this architecture in vivo presents a major challenge. High density of protein molecules within macromolecular machines severely limits the effectiveness of super-resolution microscopy. However, this density is ideal for Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), which can determine the proximity between neighboring molecules. Here, we present a simple FRET quantitation scheme that calibrates a standard epifluorescence microscope for measuring donor–acceptor separations. This calibration can be used to deduce FRET efficiency fluorescence intensity measurements. This method will allow accurate determination of FRET efficiency over a wide range of values and FRET pair number. It will also allow dynamic FRET measurements with high spatiotemporal resolution under cell biological conditions. Although the poor maturation efficiency of genetically encoded fluorescent proteins presents a challenge, we show that its effects can be alleviated. To demonstrate this methodology, we probe the in vivo architecture of the γ-Tubulin Ring. Our technique can be applied to study the architecture and dynamics of a wide range of macromolecular machines.
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Juanes MA, Twyman H, Tunnacliffe E, Guo Z, ten Hoopen R, Segal M. Spindle pole body history intrinsically links pole identity with asymmetric fate in budding yeast. Curr Biol 2013; 23:1310-9. [PMID: 23810537 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2013] [Revised: 05/01/2013] [Accepted: 05/29/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Budding yeast is a unique model for exploring differential fate in a cell dividing asymmetrically. In yeast, spindle orientation begins with the old spindle pole body (SPB) (from the preceding cell cycle) contacting the bud by its existing astral microtubules (aMTs) while the new pole delays astral microtubule organization. This appears to prime the inheritance of the old pole by the bud. The basis for this asymmetry and the discrimination of the poles by virtue of their history remain a mystery. RESULTS Here, we report that asymmetric aMT organization stems from an outstanding structural asymmetry linked to the SPB cycle. We show that the γ-tubulin nucleation complex (γTC) favors the old spindle pole, an asymmetry inherent to the outer plaque (the cytoplasmic face of the SPB). Indeed, Spc72 (the receptor for the γTC) is acquired by the new SPB outer plaque partway through spindle assembly. The significance of this asymmetry was explored in cells expressing an Spc72(1-276)-Cnm67 fusion that forced symmetric nucleation at the SPB outer plaques. This manipulation triggered simultaneous aMT organization by both spindle poles from the outset and led to symmetric contacts between poles and the bud, effectively disrupting the program for spindle polarity. Temporally symmetric aMT organization perturbed Kar9 polarization by randomizing the choice of the pole to be guided toward the bud. Accordingly, the pattern of SPB inheritance was also randomized. CONCLUSIONS Spc72 differential recruitment imparting asymmetric aMT organization represents the most upstream determinant linking SPB historical identity and fate.
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- M Angeles Juanes
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK
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Productive cell proliferation involves efficient and accurate splitting of the dividing cell into two separate entities. This orderly process reflects coordination of diverse cytological events by regulatory systems that drive the cell from mitosis into G1. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, separation of mother and daughter cells involves coordinated actomyosin ring contraction and septum synthesis, followed by septum destruction. These events occur in precise and rapid sequence once chromosomes are segregated and are linked with spindle organization and mitotic progress by intricate cell cycle control machinery. Additionally, critical paarts of the mother/daughter separation process are asymmetric, reflecting a form of fate specification that occurs in every cell division. This chapter describes central events of budding yeast cell separation, as well as the control pathways that integrate them and link them with the cell cycle.
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Stephens AD, Haggerty RA, Vasquez PA, Vicci L, Snider CE, Shi F, Quammen C, Mullins C, Haase J, Taylor RM, Verdaasdonk JS, Falvo MR, Jin Y, Forest MG, Bloom K. Pericentric chromatin loops function as a nonlinear spring in mitotic force balance. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 200:757-72. [PMID: 23509068 PMCID: PMC3601350 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201208163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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During mitosis, cohesin- and condensin-based pericentric chromatin loops function as a spring network to balance spindle microtubule force. The mechanisms by which sister chromatids maintain biorientation on the metaphase spindle are critical to the fidelity of chromosome segregation. Active force interplay exists between predominantly extensional microtubule-based spindle forces and restoring forces from chromatin. These forces regulate tension at the kinetochore that silences the spindle assembly checkpoint to ensure faithful chromosome segregation. Depletion of pericentric cohesin or condensin has been shown to increase the mean and variance of spindle length, which have been attributed to a softening of the linear chromatin spring. Models of the spindle apparatus with linear chromatin springs that match spindle dynamics fail to predict the behavior of pericentromeric chromatin in wild-type and mutant spindles. We demonstrate that a nonlinear spring with a threshold extension to switch between spring states predicts asymmetric chromatin stretching observed in vivo. The addition of cross-links between adjacent springs recapitulates coordination between pericentromeres of neighboring chromosomes.
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- Andrew D Stephens
- Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Böhm S, Buchberger A. The budding yeast Cdc48(Shp1) complex promotes cell cycle progression by positive regulation of protein phosphatase 1 (Glc7). PLoS One 2013; 8:e56486. [PMID: 23418575 PMCID: PMC3572051 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2012] [Accepted: 01/10/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The conserved, ubiquitin-selective AAA ATPase Cdc48 regulates numerous cellular processes including protein quality control, DNA repair and the cell cycle. Cdc48 function is tightly controlled by a multitude of cofactors mediating substrate specificity and processing. The UBX domain protein Shp1 is a bona fide substrate-recruiting cofactor of Cdc48 in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae. Even though Shp1 has been proposed to be a positive regulator of Glc7, the catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase 1 in S. cerevisiae, its cellular functions in complex with Cdc48 remain largely unknown. Here we show that deletion of the SHP1 gene results in severe growth defects and a cell cycle delay at the metaphase to anaphase transition caused by reduced Glc7 activity. Using an engineered Cdc48 binding-deficient variant of Shp1, we establish the Cdc48Shp1 complex as a critical regulator of mitotic Glc7 activity. We demonstrate that shp1 mutants possess a perturbed balance of Glc7 phosphatase and Ipl1 (Aurora B) kinase activities and show that hyper-phosphorylation of the kinetochore protein Dam1, a key mitotic substrate of Glc7 and Ipl1, is a critical defect in shp1. We also show for the first time a physical interaction between Glc7 and Shp1 in vivo. Whereas loss of Shp1 does not significantly affect Glc7 protein levels or localization, it causes reduced binding of the activator protein Glc8 to Glc7. Our data suggest that the Cdc48Shp1 complex controls Glc7 activity by regulating its interaction with Glc8 and possibly further regulatory subunits.
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- Stefanie Böhm
- Department of Biochemistry, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Duellberg C, Fourniol FJ, Maurer SP, Roostalu J, Surrey T. End-binding proteins and Ase1/PRC1 define local functionality of structurally distinct parts of the microtubule cytoskeleton. Trends Cell Biol 2013; 23:54-63. [PMID: 23103209 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2012.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2012] [Revised: 09/25/2012] [Accepted: 10/02/2012] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The microtubule cytoskeleton is crucial for the intracellular organization of eukaryotic cells. It is a dynamic scaffold that has to perform a variety of very different functions. This multitasking is achieved through the activity of numerous microtubule-associated proteins. Two prominent classes of proteins are central to the selective recognition of distinct transiently existing structural features of the microtubule cytoskeleton. They define local functionality through tightly regulated protein recruitment. Here we summarize the recent developments in elucidating the molecular mechanism underlying the action of microtubule end-binding proteins (EBs) and antiparallel microtubule crosslinkers of the Ase1/PRC1 family that represent the core of these two recruitment modules. Despite their fundamentally different activities, these conserved families share several common features.
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- Christian Duellberg
- London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK
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Tanaka K. Regulatory mechanisms of kinetochore-microtubule interaction in mitosis. Cell Mol Life Sci 2013; 70:559-79. [PMID: 22752158 PMCID: PMC11113415 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1057-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2012] [Revised: 05/29/2012] [Accepted: 06/11/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Interaction of microtubules with kinetochores is fundamental to chromosome segregation. Kinetochores initially associate with lateral surfaces of microtubules and subsequently become attached to microtubule ends. During these interactions, kinetochores can move by sliding along microtubules or by moving together with depolymerizing microtubule ends. The interplay between kinetochores and microtubules leads to the establishment of bi-orientation, which is the attachment of sister kinetochores to microtubules from opposite spindle poles, and subsequent chromosome segregation. Molecular mechanisms underlying these processes have been intensively studied over the past 10 years. Emerging evidence suggests that the KNL1-Mis12-Ndc80 (KMN) network plays a central role in connecting kinetochores to microtubules, which is under fine regulation by a mitotic kinase, Aurora B. However, a growing number of additional molecules are being shown to be involved in the kinetochore-microtubule interaction. Here I overview the current range of regulatory mechanisms of the kinetochore-microtubule interaction, and discuss how these multiple molecules contribute cooperatively to allow faithful chromosome segregation.
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- Kozo Tanaka
- Department of Molecular Oncology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Miyagi, Japan.
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Interplay Between Spindle Architecture and Function. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 306:83-125. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-407694-5.00003-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Pereira AJ, Maiato H. Maturation of the kinetochore-microtubule interface and the meaning of metaphase. Chromosome Res 2012; 20:563-77. [PMID: 22801775 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-012-9298-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Chromosome positioning at the equator of the mitotic spindle emerges out of a relatively entropic background. At this moment, termed metaphase, all kinetochores have typically captured microtubules leading to satisfaction of the spindle-assembly checkpoint, but the cell does not enter anaphase immediately. The waiting time in metaphase is related to the kinetics of securin and cyclin B1 degradation, which trigger sister-chromatid separation and promote anaphase processivity, respectively. Yet, as judged by metaphase duration, such kinetics vary widely between cell types and organisms, with no evident correlation to ploidy or cell size. During metaphase, many animal and plant spindles are also characterized by a conspicuous "flux" activity characterized by continuous poleward translocation of spindle microtubules, which maintain steady-state length and position. Whether spindle microtubule flux plays a specific role during metaphase remains arguable. Based on known experimental parameters, we have performed a comparative analysis amongst different cell types from different organisms and show that spindle length, metaphase duration and flux velocity combine within each system to obey a quasi-universal rule. As so, knowledge of two of these parameters is enough to estimate the third. This trend indicates that metaphase duration is tuned to allow approximately one kinetochore-to-pole round of microtubule flux. We propose that the time cells spend in metaphase evolved as a quality enhancement step that allows for the uniform stabilization/correction of kinetochore-microtubule attachments, thereby promoting mitotic fidelity.
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- António J Pereira
- Chromosome Instability and Dynamics Laboratory, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal.
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Roy B, Varshney N, Yadav V, Sanyal K. The process of kinetochore assembly in yeasts. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2012; 338:107-17. [PMID: 23039831 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2012] [Revised: 09/29/2012] [Accepted: 10/01/2012] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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High fidelity chromosome segregation is essential for efficient transfer of the genetic material from the mother to daughter cells. The kinetochore (KT), which connects the centromere DNA to the spindle apparatus, plays a pivotal role in this process. In spite of considerable divergence in the centromere DNA sequence, basic architecture of a KT is evolutionarily conserved from yeast to humans. However, the identification of a large number of KT proteins paved the way of understanding conserved and diverged regulatory steps that lead to the formation of a multiprotein KT super-complex on the centromere DNA in different organisms. Because it is a daunting task to summarize the entire spectrum of information in a minireview, we focus here on the recent understanding in the process of KT assembly in three yeasts: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Candida albicans. Studies in these unicellular organisms suggest that although the basic process of KT assembly remains the same, the dependence of a conserved protein for its KT localization may vary in these organisms.
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- Babhrubahan Roy
- Molecular Mycology Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
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Tanaka K. Dynamic regulation of kinetochore-microtubule interaction during mitosis. J Biochem 2012; 152:415-24. [DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvs109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Akiyoshi B, Biggins S. Reconstituting the kinetochore–microtubule interface: what, why, and how. Chromosoma 2012; 121:235-50. [PMID: 22289864 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-012-0362-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2011] [Revised: 01/15/2012] [Accepted: 01/16/2012] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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The kinetochore is the proteinaceous complex that governs the movement of duplicated chromosomes by interacting with spindle microtubules during mitosis and meiosis. Faithful chromosome segregation requires that kinetochores form robust load-bearing attachments to the tips of dynamic spindle microtubules, correct microtubule attachment errors, and delay the onset of anaphase until all chromosomes have made proper attachments. To understand how this macromolecular machine operates to segregate duplicated chromosomes with exquisite accuracy, it is critical to reconstitute and study kinetochore–microtubule interactions in vitro using defined components. Here, we review the current status of reconstitution as well as recent progress in understanding the microtubule-binding functions of kinetochores in vivo.
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- Bungo Akiyoshi
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK.
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitotic spindle in budding yeast is exemplified by its simplicity and elegance. Microtubules are nucleated from a crystalline array of proteins organized in the nuclear envelope, known as the spindle pole body in yeast (analogous to the centrosome in larger eukaryotes). The spindle has two classes of nuclear microtubules: kinetochore microtubules and interpolar microtubules. One kinetochore microtubule attaches to a single centromere on each chromosome, while approximately four interpolar microtubules emanate from each pole and interdigitate with interpolar microtubules from the opposite spindle to provide stability to the bipolar spindle. On the cytoplasmic face, two to three microtubules extend from the spindle pole toward the cell cortex. Processes requiring microtubule function are limited to spindles in mitosis and to spindle orientation and nuclear positioning in the cytoplasm. Microtubule function is regulated in large part via products of the 6 kinesin gene family and the 1 cytoplasmic dynein gene. A single bipolar kinesin (Cin8, class Kin-5), together with a depolymerase (Kip3, class Kin-8) or minus-end-directed kinesin (Kar3, class Kin-14), can support spindle function and cell viability. The remarkable feature of yeast cells is that they can survive with microtubules and genes for just two motor proteins, thus providing an unparalleled system to dissect microtubule and motor function within the spindle machine.
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Boettcher B, Marquez-Lago TT, Bayer M, Weiss EL, Barral Y. Nuclear envelope morphology constrains diffusion and promotes asymmetric protein segregation in closed mitosis. J Cell Biol 2012; 197:921-37. [PMID: 22711697 PMCID: PMC3384416 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201112117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2011] [Accepted: 05/15/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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During vegetative growth, Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells divide asymmetrically: the mother cell buds to produce a smaller daughter cell. This daughter asymmetrically inherits the transcription factor Ace2, which activates daughter-specific transcriptional programs. In this paper, we investigate when and how this asymmetry is established and maintained. We show that Ace2 asymmetry is initiated in the elongated, but undivided, anaphase nucleus. At this stage, the nucleoplasm was highly compartmentalized; little exchange was observed for nucleoplasmic proteins between mother and bud. Using photobleaching and in silico modeling, we show that diffusion barriers compartmentalize the nuclear membranes. In contrast, the behavior of proteins in the nucleoplasm is well explained by the dumbbell shape of the anaphase nucleus. This compartmentalization of the nucleoplasm promoted Ace2 asymmetry in anaphase nuclei. Thus, our data indicate that yeast cells use the process of closed mitosis and the morphological constraints associated with it to asymmetrically segregate nucleoplasmic components.
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Integrative Systems Biology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Kunigami, Okinawa 904-0412, Japan
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Nucleation and transport organize microtubules in metaphase spindles. Cell 2012; 149:554-64. [PMID: 22541427 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.03.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2011] [Revised: 11/27/2011] [Accepted: 03/16/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Spindles are arrays of microtubules that segregate chromosomes during cell division. It has been difficult to validate models of spindle assembly due to a lack of information on the organization of microtubules in these structures. Here we present a method, based on femtosecond laser ablation, capable of measuring the detailed architecture of spindles. We used this method to study the metaphase spindle in Xenopus laevis egg extracts and found that microtubules are shortest near poles and become progressively longer toward the center of the spindle. These data, in combination with mathematical modeling, imaging, and biochemical perturbations, are sufficient to reject previously proposed mechanisms of spindle assembly. Our results support a model of spindle assembly in which microtubule polymerization dynamics are not spatially regulated, and the proper organization of microtubules in the spindle is determined by nonuniform microtubule nucleation and the local sorting of microtubules by transport.
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Total centromere size and genome size are strongly correlated in ten grass species. Chromosome Res 2012; 20:403-12. [PMID: 22552915 PMCID: PMC3391362 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-012-9284-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2012] [Revised: 04/11/2012] [Accepted: 04/12/2012] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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It has been known for decades that centromere size varies across species, but the factors involved in setting centromere boundaries are unknown. As a means to address this question, we estimated centromere sizes in ten species of the grass family including rice, maize, and wheat, which diverged 60~80 million years ago and vary by 40-fold in genome size. Measurements were made using a broadly reactive antibody to rice centromeric histone H3 (CENH3). In species-wide comparisons, we found a clear linear relationship between total centromere size and genome size. Species with large genomes and few chromosomes tend to have the largest centromeres (e.g., rye) while species with small genomes and many chromosomes have the smallest centromeres (e.g., rice). However, within a species, centromere size is surprisingly uniform. We present evidence from three oat–maize addition lines that support this claim, indicating that each of three maize centromeres propagated in oat are not measurably different from each other. In the context of previously published data, our results suggest that the apparent correlation between chromosome and centromere size is incidental to a larger trend that reflects genome size. Centromere size may be determined by a limiting component mechanism similar to that described for Caenorhabditis elegans centrosomes.
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