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Mennella V, Rogers GC, Rogers SL, Buster DW, Vale RD, Sharp DJ. Functionally distinct kinesin-13 family members cooperate to regulate microtubule dynamics during interphase. Nat Cell Biol 2005; 7:235-45. [PMID: 15723056 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2004] [Accepted: 01/26/2005] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Regulation of microtubule polymerization and depolymerization is required for proper cell development. Here, we report that two proteins of the Drosophila melanogaster kinesin-13 family, KLP10A and KLP59C, cooperate to drive microtubule depolymerization in interphase cells. Analyses of microtubule dynamics in S2 cells depleted of these proteins indicate that both proteins stimulate depolymerization, but alter distinct parameters of dynamic instability; KLP10A stimulates catastrophe (a switch from growth to shrinkage) whereas KLP59C suppresses rescue (a switch from shrinkage to growth). Moreover, immunofluorescence and live analyses of cells expressing tagged kinesins reveal that KLP10A and KLP59C target to polymerizing and depolymerizing microtubule plus ends, respectively. Our data also suggest that KLP10A is deposited on microtubules by the plus-end tracking protein, EB1. Our findings support a model in which these two members of the kinesin-13 family divide the labour of microtubule depolymerization.
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- Vito Mennella
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Maiato H, Sampaio P, Sunkel CE. Microtubule-associated proteins and their essential roles during mitosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 241:53-153. [PMID: 15548419 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(04)41002-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Microtubules play essential roles during mitosis, including chromosome capture, congression, and segregation. In addition, microtubules are also required for successful cytokinesis. At the heart of these processes is the ability of microtubules to do work, a property that derives from their intrinsic dynamic behavior. However, if microtubule dynamics were not properly regulated, it is certain that microtubules alone could not accomplish any of these tasks. In vivo, the regulation of microtubule dynamics is the responsibility of microtubule-associated proteins. Among these, we can distinguish several classes according to their function: (1) promotion and stabilization of microtubule polymerization, (2) destabilization or severance of microtubules, (3) functioning as linkers between various structures, or (4) motility-related functions. Here we discuss how the various properties of microtubule-associated proteins can be used to assemble an efficient mitotic apparatus capable of ensuring the bona fide transmission of the genetic information in animal cells.
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- Hélder Maiato
- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal
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Matsumoto T, Yanagida M. The dream of every chromosome: equal segregation for a healthy life of the host. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2005; 570:281-310. [PMID: 18727505 DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3764-3_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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- Tomohiro Matsumoto
- Department of Gene Mechanisms, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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Riemslag EEF, Janson ME, Dogterom M. Active motor proteins can couple cargo to the ends of growing microtubules. Phys Biol 2004; 1:C5-11. [PMID: 16204831 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3967/1/4/c01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In living cells, dynamic microtubule ends interact with specialized protein complexes located on microtubule targets such as chromosomes and the cell cortex. A significant role in coupling microtubule ends to these complexes has been attributed to motor proteins, which are thought to provide a physical link while at the same time allowing for microtubule growth or shrinkage. In the past, motor-coated beads have been shown to be able to follow the ends of depolymerizing microtubules, in a direction opposite to their natural walking direction. Here we show that beads coated with plus-end-directed motors can also stay attached for several seconds to the ends of growing microtubules. Upon arrival at the microtubule end, fast-moving beads reduce their velocity to the microtubule growth velocity. We show that the tendency to stay attached depends on the initial bead velocity and that the microtubule growth velocity is unaffected by the presence of the bead.
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- Eva E F Riemslag
- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Bisgrove SR, Hable WE, Kropf DL. +TIPs and microtubule regulation. The beginning of the plus end in plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 136:3855-63. [PMID: 15591443 PMCID: PMC535819 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.051037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2004] [Revised: 09/30/2004] [Accepted: 10/12/2004] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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- Sherryl R Bisgrove
- Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0840, USA.
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Newton CN, Wagenbach M, Ovechkina Y, Wordeman L, Wilson L. MCAK, a Kin I kinesin, increases the catastrophe frequency of steady-state HeLa cell microtubules in an ATP-dependent manner in vitro. FEBS Lett 2004; 572:80-4. [PMID: 15304328 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.06.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2004] [Accepted: 06/30/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Mitotic-centromere-associated kinesin (MCAK) is a member of the KIN I (internal motor domain) subfamily of kinesin related proteins. MCAK and its homologues destabilize microtubules both in cells and in vitro. Here, we analyzed the effects of MCAK in the presence and absence of ATP on the dynamic instability behavior of steady state microtubules assembled from purified HeLa cell tubulin. In the presence of ATP, substoichiometric levels of full length MCAK and a segment (A182) consisting of the motor and neck domains strongly increased the catastrophe frequency of the microtubules. These data demonstrate that MCAK is a microtubule-catastrophe promoting factor in vitro, and support the hypothesis that MCAK may serve as a catastrophe-promoting factor in cells.
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- Cori N Newton
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and The Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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Hertzer KM, Ems-McClung SC, Walczak CE. Kin I kinesins: insights into the mechanism of depolymerization. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2004; 38:453-69. [PMID: 14695126 DOI: 10.1080/10409230390267419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Kin I kinesins are members of the diverse kinesin superfamily of molecular motors. Whereas most kinesins use ATP to move along microtubules, Kin I kinesins depolymerize microtubules rather than walk along them. Functionally, this distinct subfamily of kinesins is important in regulating cellular microtubule dynamics and plays a crucial role in spindle assembly and chromosome segregation. The molecular mechanism of Kin I-induced microtubule destabilization is as yet unclear. It is generally believed that Kin Is induce a structural change on the microtubule that leads to microtubule destabilization. Recently, much progress has been made towards understanding how Kin Is may cause this structural change, and how ATPase activity is employed in the catalytic cycle.
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- Kathleen M Hertzer
- Medical Sciences Program, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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Ganem NJ, Compton DA. The KinI kinesin Kif2a is required for bipolar spindle assembly through a functional relationship with MCAK. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 166:473-8. [PMID: 15302853 PMCID: PMC2172212 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200404012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Although the microtubule-depolymerizing KinI motor Kif2a is abundantly expressed in neuronal cells, we now show it localizes to centrosomes and spindle poles during mitosis in cultured cells. RNAi-induced knockdown of Kif2a expression inhibited cell cycle progression because cells assembled monopolar spindles. Bipolar spindle assembly was restored in cells lacking Kif2a by treatments that altered microtubule assembly (nocodazole), eliminated kinetochore–microtubule attachment (loss of Nuf2), or stabilized microtubule plus ends at kinetochores (loss of MCAK). Thus, two KinI motors, MCAK and Kif2a, play distinct roles in mitosis, and MCAK activity at kinetochores must be balanced by Kif2a activity at poles for spindle bipolarity. These treatments failed to restore bipolarity to cells lacking the activity of the kinesin Eg5. Thus, two independent pathways contribute to spindle bipolarity, with the Eg5-dependent pathway using motor force to drive spindle bipolarity and the Kif2a-dependent pathway relying on microtubule polymer dynamics to generate force for spindle bipolarity.
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- Neil J Ganem
- Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, 410 Remsen Bldg., Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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Lan W, Zhang X, Kline-Smith SL, Rosasco SE, Barrett-Wilt GA, Shabanowitz J, Hunt DF, Walczak CE, Stukenberg PT. Aurora B phosphorylates centromeric MCAK and regulates its localization and microtubule depolymerization activity. Curr Biol 2004; 14:273-86. [PMID: 14972678 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.01.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 337] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2003] [Revised: 11/24/2003] [Accepted: 01/16/2004] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Sister kinetochores must bind microtubules in a bipolar fashion to equally segregate chromosomes during mitosis. The molecular mechanisms underlying this process remain unclear. Aurora B likely promotes chromosome biorientation by regulating kinetochore-microtubule attachments. MCAK (mitotic centromere-associated kinesin) is a Kin I kinesin that can depolymerize microtubules. These two proteins both localize to mitotic centromeres and have overlapping mitotic functions, including regulation of microtubule dynamics, proper chromosome congression, and correction of improper kinetochore-microtubule attachments. RESULTS We show that Aurora B phosphorylates and regulates MCAK both in vitro and in vivo. Specifically, we mapped six Aurora B phosphorylation sites on MCAK in both the centromere-targeting domain and the neck region. Aurora B activity was required to localize MCAK to centromeres, but not to spindle poles. Aurora B phosphorylation of serine 196 in the neck region of MCAK inhibited its microtubule depolymerization activity. We found that this key site was phosphorylated at centromeres and anaphase spindle midzones in vivo. However, within the inner centromere there were pockets of both phosphorylated and unphosphorylated MCAK protein, suggesting that phosphate turnover is crucial in the regulation of MCAK activity. Addition of alpha-p-S196 antibodies to Xenopus egg extracts or injection of alpha-p-S196 antibodies into cells caused defects in chromosome positioning and/or segregation. CONCLUSIONS We have established a direct link between the microtubule depolymerase MCAK and Aurora B kinase. Our data suggest that Aurora B both positively and negatively regulates MCAK during mitosis. We propose that Aurora B biorients chromosomes by directing MCAK to depolymerize incorrectly oriented kinetochore microtubules.
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- Weijie Lan
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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Carvalho P, Gupta ML, Hoyt MA, Pellman D. Cell Cycle Control of Kinesin-Mediated Transport of Bik1 (CLIP-170) Regulates Microtubule Stability and Dynein Activation. Dev Cell 2004; 6:815-29. [PMID: 15177030 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2004.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2004] [Revised: 04/06/2004] [Accepted: 04/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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CLIPs are microtubule plus end-associated proteins that mediate interactions required for cell polarity and cell division. Here we demonstrate that budding yeast Bik1, unlike its human ortholog CLIP-170, is targeted to the microtubule plus end by a kinesin-dependent transport mechanism. Bik1 forms a complex with the kinesin Kip2. Fluorescently labeled Bik1 and Kip2 comigrate along individual microtubules. Bik1 exists in distinct intracellular pools: a stable pool at the spindle pole body that is depleted during cell cycle progression, a soluble pool from which Bik1 can be recruited during microtubule initiation, and a dynamic plus end pool maintained by Kip2. Kip2 stabilizes microtubules by targeting Bik1 to the plus end and Kip2 levels are controlled during the cell cycle. As with Bik1, the targeting of dynein to the microtubule plus end requires Kip2. These findings reveal a central role for Kip2-dependent transport in the cell cycle control of microtubule dynamics and dynein-dependent motility.
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- Pedro Carvalho
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Pearson CG, Bloom K. Dynamic Microtubules Lead the Way for Spindle Positioning. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2004; 5:481-92. [PMID: 15173827 DOI: 10.1038/nrm1402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Chad G Pearson
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fordham Hall Room 622, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280, USA
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Xiang X, Fischer R. Nuclear migration and positioning in filamentous fungi. Fungal Genet Biol 2004; 41:411-9. [PMID: 14998524 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2003.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2003] [Accepted: 11/18/2003] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Genetic analyses of nuclear distribution mutants have indicated that functions of the microtubule motor, cytoplasmic dynein, and its regulators are important for nuclear positioning in filamentous fungi. Here we review these studies and also present the need to further dissect how dynein and its associated microtubule cytoskeleton are involved mechanistically in nuclear positioning in the multinucleated hyphae.
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- Xin Xiang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
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Ogawa T, Nitta R, Okada Y, Hirokawa N. A common mechanism for microtubule destabilizers-M type kinesins stabilize curling of the protofilament using the class-specific neck and loops. Cell 2004; 116:591-602. [PMID: 14980225 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(04)00129-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2003] [Revised: 01/15/2004] [Accepted: 01/16/2004] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Unlike other kinesins, middle motor domain-type kinesins depolymerize the microtubule from its ends. To elucidate its mechanism, we solved the X-ray crystallographic structure of KIF2C, a murine member of this family. Three major class-specific features were identified. The class-specific N-terminal neck adopts a long and rigid helical structure extending out vertically into the interprotofilament groove. This structure explains its dual roles in targeting to the end of the microtubule and in destabilization of the lateral interaction of the protofilament. The loop L2 forms a unique finger-like structure, long and rigid enough to reach the next tubulin subunit to stabilize the peeling of the protofilament. The open conformation of the switch I loop could be reversed by the shift of the microtubule binding L8 loop, suggesting its role as the sensor to trigger ATP hydrolysis. Mutational analysis supports these structural implications.
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- Tadayuki Ogawa
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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Kin Is, kinesins with an internal catalytic domain, de-polymerize microtubules from both ends, and the KIF2C crystal structure presented by ([this issue of Cell]) provides provocative evidence to support the theory that the highly conserved sequences are critical structural elements in these catastrophic kinesins.
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Ohi R, Sapra T, Howard J, Mitchison TJ. Differentiation of cytoplasmic and meiotic spindle assembly MCAK functions by Aurora B-dependent phosphorylation. Mol Biol Cell 2004; 15:2895-906. [PMID: 15064354 PMCID: PMC420112 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e04-02-0082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The KinI kinesin MCAK is a microtubule depolymerase important for governing spindle microtubule dynamics during chromosome segregation. The dynamic nature of spindle assembly and chromosome-microtubule interactions suggest that mechanisms must exist that modulate the activity of MCAK, both spatially and temporally. In Xenopus extracts, MCAK associates with and is stimulated by the inner centromere protein ICIS. The inner centromere kinase Aurora B also interacts with ICIS and MCAK raising the possibility that Aurora B may regulate MCAK activity as well. Herein, we demonstrate that recombinant Aurora B-INCENP inhibits Xenopus MCAK activity in vitro in a phosphorylation-dependent manner. Substituting endogenous MCAK in Xenopus extracts with the alanine mutant XMCAK-4A, which is resistant to inhibition by Aurora B-INCENP, led to assembly of mono-astral and monopolar structures instead of bipolar spindles. The size of these structures and extent of tubulin polymerization in XMCAK-4A extracts indicate that XM-CAK-4A is not defective for microtubule dynamics regulation throughout the cytoplasm. We further demonstrate that the ability of XMCAK-4A to localize to inner centromeres is abolished. Our results show that MCAK regulation of cytoplasmic and spindle-associated microtubules can be differentiated by Aurora B-dependent phosphorylation, and they further demonstrate that this regulation is required for bipolar meiotic spindle assembly.
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- Ryoma Ohi
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Andrews PD, Ovechkina Y, Morrice N, Wagenbach M, Duncan K, Wordeman L, Swedlow JR. Aurora B regulates MCAK at the mitotic centromere. Dev Cell 2004; 6:253-68. [PMID: 14960279 DOI: 10.1016/s1534-5807(04)00025-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 369] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2003] [Revised: 08/22/2003] [Accepted: 12/11/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Chromosome orientation and alignment within the mitotic spindle requires the Aurora B protein kinase and the mitotic centromere-associated kinesin (MCAK). Here, we report the regulation of MCAK by Aurora B. Aurora B inhibited MCAK's microtubule depolymerizing activity in vitro, and phospho-mimic (S/E) mutants of MCAK inhibited depolymerization in vivo. Expression of either MCAK (S/E) or MCAK (S/A) mutants increased the frequency of syntelic microtubule-kinetochore attachments and mono-oriented chromosomes. MCAK phosphorylation also regulates MCAK localization: the MCAK (S/E) mutant frequently localized to the inner centromere while the (S/A) mutant concentrated at kinetochores. We also detected two different binding sites for MCAK using FRAP analysis of the different MCAK mutants. Moreover, disruption of Aurora B function by expression of a kinase-dead mutant or RNAi prevented centromeric targeting of MCAK. These results link Aurora B activity to MCAK function, with Aurora B regulating MCAK's activity and its localization at the centromere and kinetochore.
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- Paul D Andrews
- Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee DD1 5EH, United Kingdom.
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Shipley K, Hekmat-Nejad M, Turner J, Moores C, Anderson R, Milligan R, Sakowicz R, Fletterick R. Structure of a kinesin microtubule depolymerization machine. EMBO J 2004; 23:1422-32. [PMID: 15029249 PMCID: PMC391071 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2003] [Accepted: 02/18/2004] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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With their ability to depolymerize microtubules (MTs), KinI kinesins are the rogue members of the kinesin family. Here we present the 1.6 A crystal structure of a KinI motor core from Plasmodium falciparum, which is sufficient for depolymerization in vitro. Unlike all published kinesin structures to date, nucleotide is not present, and there are noticeable differences in loop regions L6 and L10 (the plus-end tip), L2 and L8 and in switch II (L11 and helix4); otherwise, the pKinI structure is very similar to previous kinesin structures. KinI-conserved amino acids were mutated to alanine, and studied for their effects on depolymerization and ATP hydrolysis. Notably, mutation of three residues in L2 appears to primarily affect depolymerization, rather than general MT binding or ATP hydrolysis. The results of this study confirm the suspected importance of loop 2 for KinI function, and provide evidence that KinI is specialized to hydrolyze ATP after initiating depolymerization.
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- Krista Shipley
- Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry/Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry/Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, GH Rm. S412E, 600 16th Street, Suite #2240, San Francisco, CA, 94143-2240, USA. Tel.: +1 415 476 5080; Fax: +1 415 476 1902; E-mail:
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Bringmann H, Skiniotis G, Spilker A, Kandels-Lewis S, Vernos I, Surrey T. A kinesin-like motor inhibits microtubule dynamic instability. Science 2004; 303:1519-22. [PMID: 15001780 DOI: 10.1126/science.1094838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The motility of molecular motors and the dynamic instability of microtubules are key dynamic processes for mitotic spindle assembly and function. We report here that one of the mitotic kinesins that localizes to chromosomes, Xklp1 from Xenopus laevis, could inhibit microtubule growth and shrinkage. This effect appeared to be mediated by a structural change in the microtubule lattice. We also found that Xklp1 could act as a fast, nonprocessive, plus end-directed molecular motor. The integration of the two properties, motility and inhibition of microtubule dynamics, in one molecule emphasizes the versatile properties of kinesin family members.
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- Henrik Bringmann
- Cell Biology and Biophysics Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrabetae 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Moores CA, Hekmat-Nejad M, Sakowicz R, Milligan RA. Regulation of KinI kinesin ATPase activity by binding to the microtubule lattice. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 163:963-71. [PMID: 14662742 PMCID: PMC2173608 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200304034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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KinI kinesins are important in regulating the complex dynamics of the microtubule cytoskeleton. They are unusual in that they depolymerize, rather than move along microtubules. To determine the attributes of KinIs that distinguish them from translocating kinesins, we examined the ATPase activity, microtubule affinity, and three-dimensional microtubule-bound structure of a minimal KinI motor domain. Together, the kinetic, affinity, and structural data lead to the conclusion that on binding to the microtubule lattice, KinIs release ADP and enter a stable, low-affinity, regulated state, from which they do not readily progress through the ATPase cycle. This state may favor detachment, or diffusion of the KinI to its site of action, the microtubule ends. Unlike conventional translocating kinesins, which are microtubule lattice–stimulated ATPases, it seems that with KinIs, nucleotide-mediated modulation of tubulin affinity is only possible when it is coupled to protofilament deformation. This provides an elegant mechanistic basis for their unique depolymerizing activity.
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- Carolyn A Moores
- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Molecular motor proteins, fueled by energy from ATP hydrolysis, move along actin filaments or microtubules, performing work in the cell. The kinesin microtubule motors transport vesicles or organelles, assemble bipolar spindles or depolymerize microtubules, functioning in basic cellular processes. The mechanism by which motor proteins convert energy from ATP hydrolysis into work is likely to differ in basic ways from man-made machines. Several mechanical elements of the kinesin motors have now been tentatively identified, permitting researchers to begin to decipher the mechanism of motor function. The force-producing conformational changes of the motor and the means by which they are amplified are probably different for the plus- and minus-end kinesin motors.
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- Sharyn A Endow
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Gandhi R, Bonaccorsi S, Wentworth D, Doxsey S, Gatti M, Pereira A. The Drosophila kinesin-like protein KLP67A is essential for mitotic and male meiotic spindle assembly. Mol Biol Cell 2004; 15:121-31. [PMID: 13679514 PMCID: PMC307533 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-05-0342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2003] [Revised: 08/20/2003] [Accepted: 08/28/2003] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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We have performed a mutational analysis together with RNA interference to determine the role of the kinesin-like protein KLP67A in Drosophila cell division. During both mitosis and male meiosis, Klp67A mutations cause an increase in MT length and disrupt discrete aspects of spindle assembly, as well as cytokinesis. Mutant cells exhibit greatly enlarged metaphase spindle as a result of excessive MT polymerization. The analysis of both living and fixed cells also shows perturbations in centrosome separation, chromosome segregation, and central spindle assembly. These data demonstrate that the MT plus end-directed motor KLP67A is essential for spindle assembly during mitosis and male meiosis and suggest that the regulation of MT plus-end polymerization is a key determinant of spindle architecture throughout cell division.
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- Rita Gandhi
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
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Hunding A. Microtubule Dynamics may Embody a Stationary Bipolarity Forming Mechanism Related to the Prokaryotic Division Site Mechanism (Pole-to-Pole Oscillations). J Biol Phys 2004; 30:325-44. [PMID: 23345876 PMCID: PMC3456318 DOI: 10.1007/s10867-004-3387-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Cell division mechanisms in eukaryotes and prokaryotes have until recently been seen as being widely different. However, pole-to-pole oscillations of proteins like MinE in prokaryotes are now known to determine the division plane. These protein waves arise through spontaneous pattern forming reaction-diffusion mechanisms, based on cooperative binding of the proteins to a quasistationary matrix (like the cell membrane or DNA). Rather than waves, stationary bipolar pattern formation may arise as well. Some of the involved proteins have eukaryotic homologs (e.g. FtsZ and tubulin), pointing to a possible ancient shared mechanism. Tubulin polymerizes to microtubules in the spindle. Mitotic microtubules are in a highly dynamical state, frequently undergoing rapid shortening (catastrophe), and fragments formed from the microtubule ends are inferred to enhance the destabilization. Here, we show that cooperative binding of such fragments to microtubules may set up a similar pattern forming mechanism as seen in prokaryotes. The result is a spontaneously formed, well controllable, bipolar state of microtubule dynamics in the cell, which may contribute to defining the bipolar spindle.
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- A. Hunding
- Chemistry Laboratory III, Department of Chemistry C116, H. C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Kline-Smith SL, Khodjakov A, Hergert P, Walczak CE. Depletion of centromeric MCAK leads to chromosome congression and segregation defects due to improper kinetochore attachments. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 15:1146-59. [PMID: 14699064 PMCID: PMC363095 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-08-0581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 218] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The complex behavior of chromosomes during mitosis is accomplished by precise binding and highly regulated polymerization dynamics of kinetochore microtubules. Previous studies have implicated Kin Is, unique kinesins that depolymerize microtubules, in regulating chromosome positioning. We have characterized the immunofluorescence localization of centromere-bound MCAK and found that MCAK localized to inner kinetochores during prophase but was predominantly centromeric by metaphase. Interestingly, MCAK accumulated at leading kinetochores during congression but not during segregation. We tested the consequences of MCAK disruption by injecting a centromere dominant-negative protein into prophase cells. Depletion of centromeric MCAK led to reduced centromere stretch, delayed chromosome congression, alignment defects, and severe missegregation of chromosomes. Rates of chromosome movement were unchanged, suggesting that the primary role of MCAK is not to move chromosomes. Furthermore, we found that disruption of MCAK leads to multiple kinetochore-microtubule attachment defects, including merotelic, syntelic, and combined merotelic-syntelic attachments. These findings reveal an essential role for Kin Is in prevention and/or correction of improper kinetochore-microtubule attachments.
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- Susan L Kline-Smith
- Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University Medical Sciences Program, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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Betterton MD, Jülicher F. A motor that makes its own track: helicase unwinding of DNA. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2003; 91:258103. [PMID: 14754162 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.258103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We study the unwinding of DNA by helicase proteins as a representative system in which a motor protein interacts with a mobile obstacle. In our discrete model, the interaction between the helicase and the DNA fork is characterized by an interaction potential. For the case of a hard-wall potential, the helicase opens the DNA by rectifying thermal fluctuations which spontaneously open base pairs. A potential with nonzero range describes the destabilization of the double strand by the enzymatic action of the helicase. We derive solutions for the opening speed as a function of the potential shape and relate our results to experiments on helicase motion.
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- M D Betterton
- Insitut Curie, Physico-chimie Curie, UMR 168, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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Hashimoto T. Dynamics and regulation of plant interphase microtubules: a comparative view. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2003; 6:568-576. [PMID: 14611955 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2003.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Microtubule and actin cytoskeletons are fundamental to a variety of cellular activities within eukaryotic organisms. Extensive information on the dynamics and functions of microtubules, as well as on their regulatory proteins, have been revealed in fungi and animals, and corresponding pictures are now slowly emerging in plants. During interphase, plant cells contain highly dynamic cortical microtubules that organize into ordered arrays, which are apparently regulated by distinct groups of microtubule regulators. Comparison with fungal and animal microtubules highlights both conserved and unique mechanisms for the regulation of the microtubule cytoskeleton in plants.
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- Takashi Hashimoto
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.
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Kollmar M, Glöckner G. Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Dictyostelium discoideum kinesin proteins. BMC Genomics 2003; 4:47. [PMID: 14641909 PMCID: PMC305348 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-4-47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2003] [Accepted: 11/27/2003] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background Kinesins constitute a large superfamily of motor proteins in eukaryotic cells. They perform diverse tasks such as vesicle and organelle transport and chromosomal segregation in a microtubule- and ATP-dependent manner. In recent years, the genomes of a number of eukaryotic organisms have been completely sequenced. Subsequent studies revealed and classified the full set of members of the kinesin superfamily expressed by these organisms. For Dictyostelium discoideum, only five kinesin superfamily proteins (Kif's) have already been reported. Results Here, we report the identification of thirteen kinesin genes exploiting the information from the raw shotgun reads of the Dictyostelium discoideum genome project. A phylogenetic tree of 390 kinesin motor domain sequences was built, grouping the Dictyostelium kinesins into nine subfamilies. According to known cellular functions or strong homologies to kinesins of other organisms, four of the Dictyostelium kinesins are involved in organelle transport, six are implicated in cell division processes, two are predicted to perform multiple functions, and one kinesin may be the founder of a new subclass. Conclusion This analysis of the Dictyostelium genome led to the identification of eight new kinesin motor proteins. According to an exhaustive phylogenetic comparison, Dictyostelium contains the same subset of kinesins that higher eukaryotes need to perform mitosis. Some of the kinesins are implicated in intracellular traffic and a small number have unpredictable functions.
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- Martin Kollmar
- Abteilung NMR basierte Strukturbiologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Am Faβberg 11, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Abteilung Genom-Analyse, Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie, Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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Ohi R, Coughlin ML, Lane WS, Mitchison TJ. An inner centromere protein that stimulates the microtubule depolymerizing activity of a KinI kinesin. Dev Cell 2003; 5:309-21. [PMID: 12919681 DOI: 10.1016/s1534-5807(03)00229-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mitosis requires precise control of microtubule dynamics. The KinI kinesin MCAK, a microtubule depolymerase, is critical for this regulation. In a screen to discover previously uncharacterized microtubule-associated proteins, we identified ICIS, a protein that stimulates MCAK activity in vitro. Consistent with this biochemical property, blocking ICIS function in Xenopus extracts with antibodies caused excessive microtubule growth and inhibited spindle formation. Prior to anaphase, ICIS localized in an MCAK-dependent manner to inner centromeres, the chromosomal region located in between sister kinetochores. From Xenopus extracts, ICIS coimmunoprecipitated MCAK and the inner centromere proteins INCENP and Aurora B, which are thought to promote chromosome biorientation. By immunoelectron microscopy, we found that ICIS is present on the surface of inner centromeres, placing it in an ideal location to depolymerize microtubules associated laterally with inner centromeres. At inner centromeres, MCAK-ICIS may destabilize these microtubules and provide a mechanism that prevents kinetochore-microtubule attachment errors.
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- Ryoma Ohi
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Homma N, Takei Y, Tanaka Y, Nakata T, Terada S, Kikkawa M, Noda Y, Hirokawa N. Kinesin superfamily protein 2A (KIF2A) functions in suppression of collateral branch extension. Cell 2003; 114:229-39. [PMID: 12887924 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(03)00522-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Through interactions with microtubules, the kinesin superfamily of proteins (KIFs) could have multiple roles in neuronal function and development. During neuronal development, postmitotic neurons develop primary axons extending toward targets, while other collateral branches remain short. Although the process of collateral branching is important for correct wiring of the brain, the mechanisms involved are not well understood. In this study, we analyzed kif2a(-/-) mice, whose brains showed multiple phenotypes, including aberrant axonal branching due to overextension of collateral branches. In kif2a(-/-) growth cones, microtubule-depolymerizing activity decreased. Moreover, many individual microtubules showed abnormal behavior at the kif2a(-/-) cell edge. Based on these results, we propose that KIF2A regulates microtubule dynamics at the growth cone edge by depolymerizing microtubules and that it plays an important role in the suppression of collateral branch extension.
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- Noriko Homma
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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All kinesins share a conserved core motor domain implying a common mechanism for generating force from ATP hydrolysis. How is it then that kinesins exhibit such divergent activities: motility, microtubule cross-linking and microtubule depolymerization? Although conventional motile kinesins have served as the paradigm for understanding kinesin function, the unconventional kinesins exploit variations on the motile theme to perform unexpected tasks. This review summarizes the biological functions and examines the possible molecular mechanisms of Kin C and Kin I unconventional kinesins. We also discuss the possible differences between the microtubule destabilization models proposed for Kar3 and Kin I kinesins.
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- Yulia Ovechkina
- University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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An important function of microtubules is to move cellular structures such as chromosomes, mitotic spindles and other organelles around inside cells. This is achieved by attaching the ends of microtubules to cellular structures; as the microtubules grow and shrink, the structures are pushed or pulled around the cell. How do the ends of microtubules couple to cellular structures, and how does this coupling regulate the stability and distribution of the microtubules? It is now clear that there are at least three properties of a microtubule end: it has alternate structures; it has a biochemical transition defined by GTP hydrolysis; and it forms a distinct target for the binding of specific proteins. These different properties can be unified by thinking of the microtubule as a molecular machine, which switches between growing and shrinking modes. Each mode is associated with a specific end structure on which end-binding proteins can assemble to modulate dynamics and couple the dynamic properties of microtubules to the movement of cellular structures.
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- Joe Howard
- Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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The Kin I kinesins are microtubule-destabilizing enzymes important for neuronal transport, spindle assembly, and chromosome segregation. now show that the Kin I MCAK is a microtubule end-stimulated ATPase that can catalytically depolymerize MT's.
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- Claire E Walczak
- Medical Sciences, Indiana University, 915 E. 3rd Street, Myers Hall 262, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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