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Golovnin A, Melnikova L, Babosha V, Pokholkova GV, Slovohotov I, Umnova A, Maksimenko O, Zhimulev IF, Georgiev P. The N-Terminal Part of Drosophila CP190 Is a Platform for Interaction with Multiple Architectural Proteins. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:15917. [PMID: 37958900 PMCID: PMC10648081 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242115917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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CP190 is a co-factor in many Drosophila architectural proteins, being involved in the formation of active promoters and insulators. CP190 contains the N-terminal BTB/POZ (Broad-Complex, Tramtrack and Bric a brac/POxvirus and Zinc finger) domain and adjacent conserved regions involved in protein interactions. Here, we examined the functional roles of these domains of CP190 in vivo. The best-characterized architectural proteins with insulator functions, Pita, Su(Hw), and dCTCF, interacted predominantly with the BTB domain of CP190. Due to the difficulty of mutating the BTB domain, we obtained a transgenic line expressing a chimeric CP190 with the BTB domain of the human protein Kaiso. Another group of architectural proteins, M1BP, Opbp, and ZIPIC, interacted with one or both of the highly conserved regions in the N-terminal part of CP190. Transgenic lines of D. melanogaster expressing CP190 mutants with a deletion of each of these domains were obtained. The results showed that these mutant proteins only partially compensated for the functions of CP190, weakly binding to selective chromatin sites. Further analysis confirmed the essential role of these domains in recruitment to regulatory regions associated with architectural proteins. We also found that the N-terminal of CP190 was sufficient for recruiting Z4 and Chromator proteins and successfully achieving chromatin opening. Taken together, our results and the results of previous studies showed that the N-terminal region of CP190 is a platform for simultaneous interaction with various DNA-binding architectural proteins and transcription complexes.
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- Anton Golovnin
- Department of Drosophila Molecular Genetics, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, Moscow 119334, Russia
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- Department of Drosophila Molecular Genetics, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, Moscow 119334, Russia
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- Department of the Control of Genetic Processes, Institute of Gene Biology Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, Moscow 119334, Russia
- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, Moscow 119334, Russia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia (I.F.Z.)
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- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, Moscow 119334, Russia
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- Department of the Control of Genetic Processes, Institute of Gene Biology Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, Moscow 119334, Russia
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- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, Moscow 119334, Russia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia (I.F.Z.)
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- Department of the Control of Genetic Processes, Institute of Gene Biology Russian Academy of Sciences, 34/5 Vavilov Street, Moscow 119334, Russia
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Blake-Hedges C, Megraw TL. Coordination of Embryogenesis by the Centrosome in Drosophila melanogaster. Results Probl Cell Differ 2019; 67:277-321. [PMID: 31435800 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23173-6_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The first 3 h of Drosophila melanogaster embryo development are exemplified by rapid nuclear divisions within a large syncytium, transforming the zygote to the cellular blastoderm after 13 successive cleavage divisions. As the syncytial embryo develops, it relies on centrosomes and cytoskeletal dynamics to transport nuclei, maintain uniform nuclear distribution throughout cleavage cycles, ensure generation of germ cells, and coordinate cellularization. For the sake of this review, we classify six early embryo stages that rely on processes coordinated by the centrosome and its regulation of the cytoskeleton. The first stage features migration of one of the female pronuclei toward the male pronucleus following maturation of the first embryonic centrosomes. Two subsequent stages distribute the nuclei first axially and then radially in the embryo. The remaining three stages involve centrosome-actin dynamics that control cortical plasma membrane morphogenesis. In this review, we highlight the dynamics of the centrosome and its role in controlling the six stages that culminate in the cellularization of the blastoderm embryo.
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- Caitlyn Blake-Hedges
- 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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de-Carvalho J, Deshpande O, Nabais C, Telley IA. A cell-free system of Drosophila egg explants supporting native mitotic cycles. Methods Cell Biol 2018; 144:233-257. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2018.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Plevock KM, Galletta BJ, Slep KC, Rusan NM. Newly Characterized Region of CP190 Associates with Microtubules and Mediates Proper Spindle Morphology in Drosophila Stem Cells. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0144174. [PMID: 26649574 PMCID: PMC4674064 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2015] [Accepted: 11/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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CP190 is a large, multi-domain protein, first identified as a centrosome protein with oscillatory localization over the course of the cell cycle. During interphase it has a well-established role within the nucleus as a chromatin insulator. Upon nuclear envelope breakdown, there is a striking redistribution of CP190 to centrosomes and the mitotic spindle, in addition to the population at chromosomes. Here, we investigate CP190 in detail by performing domain analysis in cultured Drosophila S2 cells combined with protein structure determination by X-ray crystallography, in vitro biochemical characterization, and in vivo fixed and live imaging of cp190 mutant flies. Our analysis of CP190 identifies a novel N-terminal centrosome and microtubule (MT) targeting region, sufficient for spindle localization. This region consists of a highly conserved BTB domain and a linker region that serves as the MT binding domain. We present the 2.5 Å resolution structure of the CP190 N-terminal 126 amino acids, which adopts a canonical BTB domain fold and exists as a stable dimer in solution. The ability of the linker region to robustly localize to MTs requires BTB domain-mediated dimerization. Deletion of the linker region using CRISPR significantly alters spindle morphology and leads to DNA segregation errors in the developing Drosophila brain neuroblasts. Collectively, we highlight a multivalent MT-binding architecture in CP190, which confers distinct subcellular cytoskeletal localization and function during mitosis.
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- Karen M. Plevock
- Cell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United State of America
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States of America
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- Cell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United State of America
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States of America
- * E-mail: (NMR); (KCS)
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- Cell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United State of America
- * E-mail: (NMR); (KCS)
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Wang S, Wu D, Quintin S, Green RA, Cheerambathur DK, Ochoa SD, Desai A, Oegema K. NOCA-1 functions with γ-tubulin and in parallel to Patronin to assemble non-centrosomal microtubule arrays in C. elegans. eLife 2015; 4:e08649. [PMID: 26371552 PMCID: PMC4608005 DOI: 10.7554/elife.08649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2015] [Accepted: 09/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Non-centrosomal microtubule arrays assemble in differentiated tissues to perform mechanical and transport-based functions. In this study, we identify Caenorhabditis elegans NOCA-1 as a protein with homology to vertebrate ninein. NOCA-1 contributes to the assembly of non-centrosomal microtubule arrays in multiple tissues. In the larval epidermis, NOCA-1 functions redundantly with the minus end protection factor Patronin/PTRN-1 to assemble a circumferential microtubule array essential for worm growth and morphogenesis. Controlled degradation of a γ-tubulin complex subunit in this tissue revealed that γ-tubulin acts with NOCA-1 in parallel to Patronin/PTRN-1. In the germline, NOCA-1 and γ-tubulin co-localize at the cell surface, and inhibiting either leads to a microtubule assembly defect. γ-tubulin targets independently of NOCA-1, but NOCA-1 targeting requires γ-tubulin when a non-essential putatively palmitoylated cysteine is mutated. These results show that NOCA-1 acts with γ-tubulin to assemble non-centrosomal arrays in multiple tissues and highlight functional overlap between the ninein and Patronin protein families. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08649.001 Microtubules are hollow, rigid filaments that are found in the cells of animals and other eukaryotes. These filaments are built from smaller building blocks called tubulin heterodimers; and in dividing animal cells, they mainly emerge from structures called centrosomes. When a cell is dividing, arrays of microtubules that originate from centrosomes help assemble the spindle-like structure that segregates the chromosomes. Many non-dividing or specialized cells—including neurons, skin cells and muscle fibers—assemble other arrays of microtubules that do not emerge from centrosomes, but nevertheless perform a variety of structural, mechanical and transport-based roles. Compared to the centrosomal arrays, much less is known about how these non-centrosomal microtubules are assembled. A vertebrate protein called ‘ninein’ had previously been shown to be involved in anchoring microtubules at centrosomes. Ninein can change its localization from centrosomes to the cell surface in mammalian skin cells, suggesting that it might also have a role in assembling the peripheral microtubule arrays that are found in these cells. Now, Wang et al. have identified a protein from worms called NOCA-1, which contains a region similar to the part of ninein that was previously shown to be needed to anchor microtubules at centrosomes. The experiments show that NOCA-1 guides the assembly of non-centrosomal microtubule arrays in multiple tissues in C. elegans worms. This includes in the outer layer of the worm's larvae, which is similar to mammalian skin. The results also highlight that NOCA-1 performs many of the same roles as a member of the Patronin family of proteins called PTRN-1, which interacts with the ‘minus’ end of a microtubule to prevent the microtubule from breaking apart. Wang et al. also found that NOCA-1 works with another protein called γ-tubulin, which helps new microtubules to form and also interacts with microtubule minus ends. In contrast, PTRN-1 works independently of γ-tubulin. This suggests that NOCA-1 works together with γ-tubulin to protect new microtubule ends or promote their assembly, a role similar to what has been proposed for Patronin family proteins. Overall, Wang et al.'s results highlight the importance of ninein-related proteins in the assembly of non-centrosomal microtubule arrays and suggest overlapping roles for the ninein and Patronin families of proteins. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08649.002
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- Shaohe Wang
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Institut Génétique Biologie Moléculaire Ceasllulaire, Faculté de médecine, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.,Institut Clinique de la Souris, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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Functional role of dimerization and CP190 interacting domains of CTCF protein in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Biol 2015; 13:63. [PMID: 26248466 PMCID: PMC4528719 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-015-0168-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Accepted: 07/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background Insulators play a central role in gene regulation, chromosomal architecture and genome function in higher eukaryotes. To learn more about how insulators carry out their diverse functions, we have begun an analysis of the Drosophila CTCF (dCTCF). CTCF is one of the few insulator proteins known to be conserved from flies to man. Results In the studies reported here we have focused on the identification and characterization of two dCTCF protein interaction modules. The first mediates dCTCF multimerization, while the second mediates dCTCF–CP190 interactions. The multimerization domain maps in the N-terminus of the dCTCF protein and likely mediates the formation of tetrameric complexes. The CP190 interaction module encompasses a sequence ~200 amino acids long that spans the C-terminal and mediates interactions with the N-terminal BTB domain of the CP190 protein. Transgene rescue experiments showed that a dCTCF protein lacking sequences critical for CP190 interactions was almost as effective as wild type in rescuing the phenotypic effects of a dCTCF null allele. The mutation did, however, affect CP190 recruitment to specific Drosophila insulator elements and had a modest effect on dCTCF chromatin association. A protein lacking the N-terminal dCTCF multimerization domain incompletely rescued the zygotic and maternal effect lethality of the null and did not rescue the defects in Abd-B regulation evident in surviving adult dCTCF mutant flies. Finally, we show that elimination of maternally contributed dCTCF at the onset of embryogenesis has quite different effects on development and Abd-B regulation than is observed when the homozygous mutant animals develop in the presence of maternally derived dCTCF activity. Conclusions Our results indicate that dCTCF–CP190 interactions are less critical for the in vivo functions of the dCTCF protein than the N-terminal dCTCF–dCTCF interaction domain. We also show that the phenotypic consequences of dCTCF mutations differ depending upon when and how dCTCF activity is lost. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12915-015-0168-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Dobbelaere J. Genome-wide RNAi screens in S2 cells to identify centrosome components. Methods Cell Biol 2015; 129:279-300. [PMID: 26175444 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2015.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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Centrosomes act as the major microtubule organizing centers in animal cells. To fully understand how the centrosome functions, a detailed analysis of its principal structural components and regulators is needed. Genome-wide RNA interference (RNAi) allows for comprehensive screening of all components. Drosophila tissue culture cells provide an attractive model for such screens. First, Drosophila centrosomes are similar to their human counterparts, but less complex. Thus, all major centrosome components are conserved and fewer redundancies apply. Second, RNAi is highly efficient in Drosophila tissue culture cells and, compared to RNAi in human cells, it is cost-effective. Finally, the availability of comprehensive libraries permits easy genome-wide screening of most of Drosophila's 14,000 protein coding genes. In this paper, we present detailed instructions for designing, performing, and analyzing a genome-wide screen in Drosophila tissue culture cells to identify centrosome components using a microscopy-based approach.
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- Jeroen Dobbelaere
- Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria.
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Rikhy R, Mavrakis M, Lippincott-Schwartz J. Dynamin regulates metaphase furrow formation and plasma membrane compartmentalization in the syncytial Drosophila embryo. Biol Open 2015; 4:301-11. [PMID: 25661871 PMCID: PMC4359736 DOI: 10.1242/bio.20149936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The successive nuclear division cycles in the syncytial Drosophila embryo are accompanied by ingression and regression of plasma membrane furrows, which surround individual nuclei at the embryo periphery, playing a central role in embryo compartmentalization prior to cellularization. Here, we demonstrate that cell cycle changes in dynamin localization and activity at the plasma membrane (PM) regulate metaphase furrow formation and PM organization in the syncytial embryo. Dynamin was localized on short PM furrows during interphase, mediating endocytosis of PM components. Dynamin redistributed off ingressed PM furrows in metaphase, correlating with stabilized PM components and the associated actin regulatory machinery on long furrows. Acute inhibition of dynamin in the temperature sensitive shibire mutant embryo resulted in morphogenetic consequences in the syncytial division cycle. These included inhibition of metaphase furrow ingression, randomization of proteins normally polarized to intercap PM and disruption of the diffusion barrier separating PM domains above nuclei. Based on these findings, we propose that cell cycle changes in dynamin orchestrate recruitment of actin regulatory machinery for PM furrow dynamics during the early mitotic cycles in the Drosophila embryo.
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- Richa Rikhy
- Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD, NIH, Building 18T, 101, 18 Library Drive, Bethesda, MD, USA. Present address: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune, 411008, India.
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- Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, CNRS UMR7288, Aix-Marseille Université, 13288 Marseille, France
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Theriot JA. Why are bacteria different from eukaryotes? BMC Biol 2013; 11:119. [PMID: 24330667 PMCID: PMC3874686 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-11-119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2013] [Accepted: 12/09/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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- Julie A Theriot
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Isolation, identification, and validation of microtubule-associated proteins from Drosophila embryos. Methods Mol Biol 2011; 777:273-91. [PMID: 21773936 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-252-6_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2023]
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The microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton is required for many aspects of cell function, including the transport of intracellular materials, maintenance of cell polarity, and the regulation of mitosis. These functions are coordinated by MT-associated proteins (MAPs), which work in concert with each other, binding MTs and altering their properties. We have used an MT co-sedimentation assay, combined with 1D and 2D PAGE and mass spectrometry, to isolate MAPs from early Drosophila embryos. This technique has identified many novel proteins and an association with MTs for many known proteins, previously not described as associating with MTs.
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Fisher KH, Deane CM, Wakefield JG. The functional domain grouping of microtubule associated proteins. Commun Integr Biol 2011; 1:47-50. [PMID: 19704789 DOI: 10.4161/cib.1.1.6795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2008] [Accepted: 08/12/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Microtubules (MTs), which play crucial roles in normal cell function, are regulated by MT associated proteins (MAPs). Using a combinatorial approach that includes biochemistry, proteomics and bioinformatics, we have recently identified 270 putative MAPs from Drosophila embryos and characterized some of those required for correct progression through mitosis. Here we identify functional groups of these MAPs using a reciprocal hits sequence alignment technique and assign InterPro functional domains to 28 previously uncharacterized proteins. This approach gives insight into the potential functions of MAPs and how their roles may affect MTs.
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Müller-Reichert T, Greenan G, O’Toole E, Srayko M. The elegans of spindle assembly. Cell Mol Life Sci 2010; 67:2195-213. [PMID: 20339898 PMCID: PMC2883083 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0324-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2010] [Accepted: 02/17/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The Caenorhabditis elegans one-cell embryo is a powerful system in which to study microtubule organization because this large cell assembles both meiotic and mitotic spindles within the same cytoplasm over the course of 1 h in a stereotypical manner. The fertilized oocyte assembles two consecutive acentrosomal meiotic spindles that function to reduce the replicated maternal diploid set of chromosomes to a single-copy haploid set. The resulting maternal DNA then unites with the paternal DNA to form a zygotic diploid complement, around which a centrosome-based mitotic spindle forms. The early C. elegans embryo is amenable to live-cell imaging and electron tomography, permitting a detailed structural comparison of the meiotic and mitotic modes of spindle assembly.
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPICBG), Pfotenhauerstr. 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Boulder Laboratory for 3D Electron Microscopy of Cells, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9 Canada
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Wade RH. On and Around Microtubules: An Overview. Mol Biotechnol 2009; 43:177-91. [DOI: 10.1007/s12033-009-9193-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2009] [Accepted: 06/03/2009] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Wu J, Du H, Wang X, Mei C, Sieck GC, Qian Q. Characterization of primary cilia in human airway smooth muscle cells. Chest 2009; 136:561-570. [PMID: 19318679 DOI: 10.1378/chest.08-1549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Considerable evidence indicates a key role for primary cilia of mammalian cells in mechanochemical sensing. Dysfunctions of primary cilia have been linked to the pathogenesis of several human diseases. However, cilia-related research has been limited to a few cell and tissue types; to our knowledge, no literature exists on primary cilia in airway smooth muscle (ASM). The aim of this study was to characterize primary cilia in human ASM. METHODS Primary cilia of human bronchial smooth muscle cells (HBSMCs) were examined using immunofluorescence confocal microscopy, and scanning and transmission electron microscopy. HBSMC migration and injury repair were examined by scratch-wound and epidermal growth factor (EGF)-induced migration assays. RESULTS Cross-sectional images of normal human bronchi revealed that primary cilia of HBSMCs within each ASM bundle aggregated at the same horizontal level, forming a "cilium layer." Individual cilia of HBSMCs projected into extracellular matrix and exhibited varying degrees of deflection. Mechanochemical sensing molecules, polycystins, and alpha2-, alpha5-, and beta1-integrins were enriched in cilia, as was EGF receptor, known to activate jointly with integrins during cell migration. Migration assays demonstrated a ciliary contribution to HBSMC migration and wound repair. CONCLUSIONS The primary cilia of ASM cells exert a role in sensing and transducing extracellular mechanochemical signals and in ASM injury repair. Defects in ASM ciliary function could potentially affect airway wall maintenance and/or remodeling, possibly relating to the genesis of bronchiectasis in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, a disease of ciliopathy.
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- Jun Wu
- Kidney Institute of the China People's Liberation Army, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
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- Kidney Institute of the China People's Liberation Army, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medicine, and the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN; Department of Medicine, and the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN.
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Meireles AM, Fisher KH, Colombié N, Wakefield JG, Ohkura H. Wac: a new Augmin subunit required for chromosome alignment but not for acentrosomal microtubule assembly in female meiosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 184:777-84. [PMID: 19289792 PMCID: PMC2699157 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200811102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The bipolar spindle forms without centrosomes naturally in female meiosis and by experimental manipulation in mitosis. Augmin is a recently discovered protein complex required for centrosome-independent microtubule generation within the spindle in Drosophilamelanogaster cultured cells. Five subunits of Augmin have been identified so far, but neither their organization within the complex nor their role in developing organisms is known. In this study, we report a new Augmin subunit, wee Augmin component (Wac). Wac directly interacts with another Augmin subunit, Dgt2, via its coiled-coil domain. Wac depletion in cultured cells, especially without functional centrosomes, causes severe defects in spindle assembly. We found that a wac deletion mutant is viable but female sterile and shows only a mild impact on somatic mitosis. Unexpectedly, mutant female meiosis showed robust microtubule assembly of the acentrosomal spindle but frequent chromosome misalignment. For the first time, this study establishes the role of an Augmin subunit in developing organisms and provides an insight into the architecture of the complex.
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- Ana M Meireles
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Hughes JR, Meireles AM, Fisher KH, Garcia A, Antrobus PR, Wainman A, Zitzmann N, Deane C, Ohkura H, Wakefield JG. A microtubule interactome: complexes with roles in cell cycle and mitosis. PLoS Biol 2008; 6:e98. [PMID: 18433294 PMCID: PMC2323305 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2007] [Accepted: 03/07/2008] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton is required for many aspects of cell function, including the transport of intracellular materials, the maintenance of cell polarity, and the regulation of mitosis. These functions are coordinated by MT-associated proteins (MAPs), which work in concert with each other, binding MTs and altering their properties. We have used a MT cosedimentation assay, combined with 1D and 2D PAGE and mass spectrometry, to identify over 250 MAPs from early Drosophila embryos. We have taken two complementary approaches to analyse the cellular function of novel MAPs isolated using this approach. First, we have carried out an RNA interference (RNAi) screen, identifying 21 previously uncharacterised genes involved in MT organisation. Second, we have undertaken a bioinformatics analysis based on binary protein interaction data to produce putative interaction networks of MAPs. By combining both approaches, we have identified and validated MAP complexes with potentially important roles in cell cycle regulation and mitosis. This study therefore demonstrates that biologically relevant data can be harvested using such a multidisciplinary approach, and identifies new MAPs, many of which appear to be important in cell division.
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- Julian R Hughes
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Programa Doutoral em Biologia Experimental e Biomedicina, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Life Sciences Interface/Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Life Sciences Interface/Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Sakamoto T, Uezu A, Kawauchi S, Kuramoto T, Makino K, Umeda K, Araki N, Baba H, Nakanishi H. Mass spectrometric analysis of microtubule co-sedimented proteins from rat brain. Genes Cells 2008; 13:295-312. [PMID: 18363962 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2008.01175.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Microtubules (MTs) play crucial roles in a variety of cell functions, such as mitosis, vesicle transport and cell motility. MTs also compose specialized structures, such as centrosomes, spindles and cilia. However, molecular mechanisms of these MT-based functions and structures are not fully understood. Here, we analyzed MT co-sedimented proteins from rat brain by tandem mass spectrometry (MS) upon ion exchange column chromatography. We identified a total of 391 proteins. These proteins were grouped into 12 categories: 57 MT cytoskeletal proteins, including MT-associated proteins (MAPs) and motor proteins; 66 other cytoskeletal proteins; 4 centrosomal proteins; 10 chaperons; 5 Golgi proteins; 7 mitochondrial proteins; 62 nucleic acid-binding proteins; 14 nuclear proteins; 13 ribosomal proteins; 28 vesicle transport proteins; 83 proteins with diverse function and/or localization; and 42 uncharacterized proteins. Of these uncharacterized proteins, six proteins were expressed in cultured cells, resulting in the identification of three novel components of centrosomes and cilia. Our present method is not specific for MAPs, but is useful for identifying low abundant novel MAPs and components of MT-based structures. Our analysis provides an extensive list of potential candidates for future study of the molecular mechanisms of MT-based functions and structures.
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- Tatsuhiko Sakamoto
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8556, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan
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Johansen KM, Johansen J. Cell and Molecular Biology of the Spindle Matrix. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2007; 263:155-206. [PMID: 17725967 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(07)63004-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The concept of a spindle matrix has long been proposed to account for incompletely understood features of microtubule spindle dynamics and force production during mitosis. In its simplest formulation, the spindle matrix is hypothesized to provide a stationary or elastic molecular matrix that can provide a substrate for motor molecules to interact with during microtubule sliding and which can stabilize the spindle during force production. Although this is an attractive concept with the potential to greatly simplify current models of microtubule spindle behavior, definitive evidence for the molecular nature of a spindle matrix or for its direct role in microtubule spindle function has been lagging. However, as reviewed here multiple studies spanning the evolutionary spectrum from lower eukaryotes to vertebrates have provided new and intriguing evidence that a spindle matrix may be a general feature of mitosis.
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- Kristen M Johansen
- Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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The primary cilium, an organelle largely ignored by physiologists, functions both as a mechano-sensor and a chemo-sensor in renal tubular epithelia. This forgotten structure is critically involved in the determination of left-right sidedness during development and is a key factor in the development of polycystic kidney disease, as well as a number of other abnormalities. This review provides an update of our current understanding about the function of primary cilia. Much new information obtained in the past five years has been stimulated, in part, by discoveries of the primary cilium's key role in the genesis of polycystic kidney disease as well as its involvement in determination of left-right axis asymmetry. Here we focus on the various functions of the primary cilium rather than on its role in pathology.
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- Helle A Praetorius
- The Water and Salt Research Center, Clinical Institute, University of Aarhus, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.
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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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Donkor FF, Mönnich M, Czirr E, Hollemann T, Hoyer-Fender S. Outer dense fibre protein 2 (ODF2) is a self-interacting centrosomal protein with affinity for microtubules. J Cell Sci 2004; 117:4643-51. [PMID: 15340007 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Outer dense fibre protein 2 (ODF2) is a major protein of sperm tail outer dense fibres which are prominent sperm tail-specific cytoskeletal structures. Moreover, ODF2 was also identified as a widespread component of the centrosomal scaffold and was found to associate preferentially with the appendages of the mother centriole [Nakagawa, Y., Yamane, Y., Okanoue, T., Tsukita, S. and Tsukita, S. (2001) Mol. Biol. Cell 12, 1687-1697]. Secondary structure predictions indicated ODF2 as an overall coiled-coil protein with a putative fibre forming capacity. To investigate its potential functions in generating the centrosomal scaffold and in microtubule nucleation we asked whether ODF2 is able to form a fibrillar structure by self-association in vivo and if it interacts with microtubules. By cytological investigation of transfected mammalian cells expressing ODF2-GFP fusion proteins and in vitro coprecipitation assays we could demonstrate that ODF2 is a self-interacting protein that forms a fibrillar structure partially linked to the microtubule network. Microtubule cosedimentation and coprecipitation assays indicated ODF2 as a microtubule-associated protein. However, we could not demonstrate a direct interaction of ODF2 with tubulin, suggesting that binding of endogenous ODF2 to the axonemal as well as to centrosomal microtubules may be mediated by, as yet, unknown proteins.
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- Fatima F Donkor
- Göttinger Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Entwicklungsbiologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Butcher RDJ, Chodagam S, Basto R, Wakefield JG, Henderson DS, Raff JW, Whitfield WGF. TheDrosophilacentrosome-associated protein CP190 is essential for viability but not for cell division. J Cell Sci 2004; 117:1191-9. [PMID: 14996941 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The Drosophila CP190 and CP60 proteins interact with each other and shuttle between the nucleus in interphase and the centrosome in mitosis. Both proteins can bind directly to microtubules in vitro, and have been shown to associate with a specific pattern of loci on salivary gland polytene chromosomes, but their functions are unknown. Here we show that reducing the level of CP190 or CP60 by >90% in tissue culture cells does not significantly interfere with centrosome or microtubule organisation, with cell division, or with cell viability. However, CP190 is an essential protein, as flies homozygous for mutations in the Cp190 gene die at late pupal stages of development. In larval brains of Cp190 mutants, mitosis is not radically perturbed, and a mutated form of CP190 (CP190ΔM), that cannot bind to microtubules or associate with centrosomes, can rescue the lethality associated with mutations in the Cp190 gene. Thus, CP190 plays an essential role in flies that is independent of its association with centrosomes or microtubules.
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- R D J Butcher
- NERC Center for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
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The centrosome organizes microtubules during both interphase and mitosis and therefore governs fundamental processes in the life of a eukaryotic cell. The past few years have seen a substantial increase in the identification of potential components localized at the centrosome. Although we are still far from achieving a coherent picture of the workings of the centrosome, these recent discoveries are promising first steps towards an understanding of centrosomal functions at the molecular level.
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- A Kalt
- Institute for Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximillians-University Munich, Schillerstrasse 42, W-8000 Munich 2, FRG
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Brinkley BR, Ouspenski I, Zinkowski RP. Structure and molecular organization of the centromere-kinetochore complex. Trends Cell Biol 2004; 2:15-21. [PMID: 14731633 DOI: 10.1016/0962-8924(92)90139-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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For over a century, the terms centromere and kinetochore have been used interchangeably to describe a complex locus on eukaryotic chromosomes that attaches chromosomes to spindle fibres and facilitates chromosome movement in mitosis and meiosis. This region has become the focus of research aimed at defining the mechanism of chromosome segregation. A variety of new molecular probes and vastly improved optical-imaging technology have provided much new information on the structure of this locus and raised new hopes that an understanding of its function may soon be at hand.
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- B R Brinkley
- Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Stein PA, Toret CP, Salic AN, Rolls MM, Rapoport TA. A novel centrosome-associated protein with affinity for microtubules. J Cell Sci 2002; 115:3389-402. [PMID: 12154070 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.115.17.3389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have identified a novel mammalian protein, MIR1, with microtubule-binding activity. MIR1 is a relative of MID1/midin, the protein implicated in Opitz G/BBB syndrome. In tissue culture cells, MIR1 is enriched at the centrosome. MIR1 dissociates from centrosomes at the G2/M transition and is recruited back to spindle poles during anaphase. When overexpressed during interphase, MIR1 binds along microtubule filaments, which become stabilized, bundled and detached from the centrosome. In mitosis,overexpressed MIR1 dissociates from microtubules but still affects the normally focused localization of γ-tubulin in spindle poles. Tight binding to microtubules in interphase appears to require an oligomeric state of MIR1, and phosphorylation in mitosis at predicted cyclin-dependent kinase(cdk) sites weakens the interaction.
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- Pascal A Stein
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-6091, USA
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- Douglas R Kellogg
- Department of Biology, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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Moritz M, Braunfeld MB, Alberts BM, Agard DA. Reconstitution of centrosome microtubule nucleation in Drosophila. Methods Cell Biol 2002; 67:141-8. [PMID: 11550465 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(01)67010-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- M Moritz
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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Ohta T, Essner R, Ryu JH, Palazzo RE, Uetake Y, Kuriyama R. Characterization of Cep135, a novel coiled-coil centrosomal protein involved in microtubule organization in mammalian cells. J Cell Biol 2002; 156:87-99. [PMID: 11781336 PMCID: PMC2173569 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200108088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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By using monoclonal antibodies raised against isolated clam centrosomes, we have identified a novel 135-kD centrosomal protein (Cep135), present in a wide range of organisms. Cep135 is located at the centrosome throughout the cell cycle, and localization is independent of the microtubule network. It distributes throughout the centrosomal area in association with the electron-dense material surrounding centrioles. Sequence analysis of cDNA isolated from CHO cells predicted a protein of 1,145-amino acid residues with extensive alpha-helical domains. Expression of a series of deletion constructs revealed the presence of three independent centrosome-targeting domains. Overexpression of Cep135 resulted in the accumulation of unique whorl-like particles in both the centrosome and the cytoplasm. Although their size, shape, and number varied according to the level of protein expression, these whorls were composed of parallel dense lines arranged in a 6-nm space. Altered levels of Cep135 by protein overexpression and/or suppression of endogenous Cep135 by RNA interference caused disorganization of interphase and mitotic spindle microtubules. Thus, Cep135 may play an important role in the centrosomal function of organizing microtubules in mammalian cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- CHO Cells
- Centrosome/chemistry
- Centrosome/immunology
- Centrosome/metabolism
- Centrosome/ultrastructure
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cricetinae
- Cytoplasm/metabolism
- Cytoplasm/ultrastructure
- Fibroblasts
- Interphase/drug effects
- Mice
- Microscopy, Immunoelectron
- Microtubule-Associated Proteins/chemistry
- Microtubule-Associated Proteins/genetics
- Microtubule-Associated Proteins/immunology
- Microtubule-Associated Proteins/metabolism
- Microtubules/drug effects
- Microtubules/metabolism
- Microtubules/ultrastructure
- Molecular Weight
- Nocodazole/pharmacology
- Peptides/chemistry
- Peptides/genetics
- Peptides/metabolism
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA, Double-Stranded/genetics
- RNA, Double-Stranded/metabolism
- RNA, Double-Stranded/pharmacology
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Sequence Deletion
- Spindle Apparatus/chemistry
- Spindle Apparatus/drug effects
- Spindle Apparatus/metabolism
- Spindle Apparatus/ultrastructure
- Transfection
- Xenopus
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- Toshiro Ohta
- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Lee MJ, Gergely F, Jeffers K, Peak-Chew SY, Raff JW. Msps/XMAP215 interacts with the centrosomal protein D-TACC to regulate microtubule behaviour. Nat Cell Biol 2001; 3:643-9. [PMID: 11433296 DOI: 10.1038/35083033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The XMAP215/ch-TOG/Msps family of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) promote microtubule growth in vitro and are concentrated at centrosomes in vivo. We show here that Msps (mini-spindles protein) interacts with the centrosomal protein D-TACC, and that this interaction strongly influences microtubule behaviour in Drosophila embryos. If D-TACC levels are reduced, Msps does not concentrate at the centrosomes efficiently and the centrosomal microtubules appear to be destabilized. If D-TACC levels are increased, both D-TACC and Msps accumulate around the centrosomes/spindle poles, and the centrosomal microtubules appear to be stabilized. We show that the interaction between D-TACC and Msps is evolutionarily conserved. We propose that D-TACC and Msps normally cooperate to stabilize centrosomal microtubules by binding to their minus ends and binding to their plus ends as they grow out from the centrosome.
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- M J Lee
- Department of Genetics, Wellcome/CRC Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK
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Wakefield JG, Bonaccorsi S, Gatti M. The drosophila protein asp is involved in microtubule organization during spindle formation and cytokinesis. J Cell Biol 2001; 153:637-48. [PMID: 11352927 PMCID: PMC2192390 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.153.4.637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Abnormal spindle (Asp) is a 220-kD microtubule-associated protein from Drosophila that has been suggested to be involved in microtubule nucleation from the centrosome. Here, we show that Asp is enriched at the poles of meiotic and mitotic spindles and localizes to the minus ends of central spindle microtubules. Localization to these structures is independent of a functional centrosome. Moreover, colchicine treatment disrupts Asp localization to the centrosome, indicating that Asp is not an integral centrosomal protein. In both meiotic and mitotic divisions of asp mutants, microtubule nucleation occurs from the centrosome, and γ-tubulin localizes correctly. However, spindle pole focusing and organization are severely affected. By examining cells that carry mutations both in asp and in asterless, a gene required for centrosome function, we have determined the role of Asp in the absence of centrosomes. Phenotypic analysis of these double mutants shows that Asp is required for the aggregation of microtubules into focused spindle poles, reinforcing the conclusion that its function at the spindle poles is independent of any putative role in microtubule nucleation. Our data also suggest that Asp has a role in the formation of the central spindle. The inability of asp mutants to correctly organize the central spindle leads to disruption of the contractile ring machinery and failure in cytokinesis.
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- James G. Wakefield
- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” 00185 Rome, Italy
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- W F Rothwell
- Sinsheimer Laboratories, Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
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Gergely F, Karlsson C, Still I, Cowell J, Kilmartin J, Raff JW. The TACC domain identifies a family of centrosomal proteins that can interact with microtubules. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:14352-7. [PMID: 11121038 PMCID: PMC18922 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.26.14352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We recently showed that the Drosophila transforming acidic coiled-coil (D-TACC) protein is located in the centrosome, interacts with microtubules, and is required for mitosis in the Drosophila embryo. There are three known human TACC proteins that share a conserved, C-terminal, coiled-coil region with D-TACC. These proteins have all been implicated in cancer, but their normal functions are unknown. We show that all three human TACC proteins are concentrated at centrosomes, but with very different characteristics: TACC1 is weakly concentrated at centrosomes during mitosis; TACC2 is strongly concentrated at centrosomes throughout the cell cycle; and TACC3 is strongly concentrated in a more diffuse region around centrosomes during mitosis. When the C-terminal TACC domain is overexpressed in HeLa cells, it forms large polymers in the cytoplasm that can interact with both microtubules and tubulin. The full-length TACC proteins form similar polymers when overexpressed, but their interaction with microtubules and tubulin is regulated during the cell cycle. At least one of the human TACC proteins appears to increase the number and/or stability of centrosomal microtubules when overexpressed during mitosis. Thus, the TACC domain identifies a family of centrosomal proteins that can interact with microtubules. This may explain the link between the TACC genes and cancer.
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- F Gergely
- Wellcome/Cancer Research Campaign Institute and Department of Genetics, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, United Kingdom
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Sisson JC, Field C, Ventura R, Royou A, Sullivan W. Lava lamp, a novel peripheral golgi protein, is required for Drosophila melanogaster cellularization. J Cell Biol 2000; 151:905-18. [PMID: 11076973 PMCID: PMC2169433 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.151.4.905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2000] [Accepted: 09/28/2000] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Drosophila cellularization and animal cell cytokinesis rely on the coordinated functions of the microfilament and microtubule cytoskeletal systems. To identify new proteins involved in cellularization and cytokinesis, we have conducted a biochemical screen for microfilament/microtubule-associated proteins (MMAPs). 17 MMAPs were identified; seven have been previously implicated in cellularization and/or cytokinesis, including KLP3A, Anillin, Septins, and Dynamin. We now show that a novel MMAP, Lava Lamp (Lva), is also required for cellularization. Lva is a coiled-coil protein and, unlike other proteins previously implicated in cellularization or cytokinesis, it is Golgi associated. Our functional analysis shows that cellularization is dramatically inhibited upon injecting anti-Lva antibodies (IgG and Fab) into embryos. In addition, we show that brefeldin A, a potent inhibitor of membrane trafficking, also inhibits cellularization. Biochemical analysis demonstrates that Lva physically interacts with the MMAPs Spectrin and CLIP190. We suggest that Lva and Spectrin may form a Golgi-based scaffold that mediates the interaction of Golgi bodies with microtubules and facilitates Golgi-derived membrane secretion required for the formation of furrows during cellularization. Our results are consistent with the idea that animal cell cytokinesis depends on both actomyosin-based contraction and Golgi-derived membrane secretion.
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- J C Sisson
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Sinsheimer Labs, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
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Cambiazo V, Logarinho E, Pottstock H, Sunkel CE. Microtubule binding of the drosophila DMAP-85 protein is regulated by phosphorylation in vitro. FEBS Lett 2000; 483:37-42. [PMID: 11033352 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)02077-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The phosphorylation of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) is thought to be a key factor in the regulation of microtubule (MT) stability. Previously we isolated DMAP-85, a Drosophila MAP shown to be associated with stable MTs. In this work we show that DMAP-85 phosphorylated in cell-free early embryo extracts is released from MTs. MPM-2 antibodies recognize the phosphorylated protein. In vitro, DMAP-85 can be phosphorylated by the mitotic kinase Polo affecting its binding to MTs and creating MPM-2 epitopes on the protein. The results suggest that phosphorylation of DMAP-85 might affect its MT stabilizing activity during early mitotic cycles.
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- V Cambiazo
- Laboratorio de Biologia Celular, INTa, Universidad de Chile, Macul 5540 Santiago, Chile.
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Inoue YH, do Carmo Avides M, Shiraki M, Deak P, Yamaguchi M, Nishimoto Y, Matsukage A, Glover DM. Orbit, a novel microtubule-associated protein essential for mitosis in Drosophila melanogaster. J Cell Biol 2000; 149:153-66. [PMID: 10747094 PMCID: PMC2175100 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.149.1.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We describe a Drosophila gene, orbit, that encodes a conserved 165-kD microtubule-associated protein (MAP) with GTP binding motifs. Hypomorphic mutations in orbit lead to a maternal effect resulting in branched and bent mitotic spindles in the syncytial embryo. In the larval central nervous system, such mutants have an elevated mitotic index with some mitotic cells showing an increase in ploidy. Amorphic alleles show late lethality and greater frequencies of hyperploid mitotic cells. The presence of cells in the hypomorphic mutant in which the chromosomes can be arranged, either in a circular metaphase or an anaphase-like configuration on monopolar spindles, suggests that polyploidy arises through spindle and chromosome segregation defects rather than defects in cytokinesis. A role for the Orbit protein in regulating microtubule behavior in mitosis is suggested by its association with microtubules throughout the spindle at all mitotic stages, by its copurification with microtubules from embryonic extracts, and by the finding that the Orbit protein directly binds to MAP-free microtubules in a GTP-dependent manner.
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- Yoshihiro H. Inoue
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
- Cell Cycle Genetics Research Group, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
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- Cell Cycle Genetics Research Group, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, England
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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- Cell Cycle Genetics Research Group, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, England
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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- Cell Cycle Genetics Research Group, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, England
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Lange BM, Bachi A, Wilm M, González C. Hsp90 is a core centrosomal component and is required at different stages of the centrosome cycle in Drosophila and vertebrates. EMBO J 2000; 19:1252-62. [PMID: 10716925 PMCID: PMC305666 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.6.1252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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To determine the molecular composition of the centrosome of a higher eukaryote, we carried out a systematic nano-electrospray tandem or MALDI mass spectrometry analysis of the polypeptides present in highly enriched preparations of immunoisolated Drosophila centrosomes. One of the proteins identified is Hsp83, a member of the highly conserved Hsp90 family including chaperones known to maintain the activity of many proteins but suspected to have other essential, unidentified functions. We have found that a fraction of the total Hsp90 pool is localized at the centrosome throughout the cell cycle at different stages of development in Drosophila and vertebrates. This association between Hsp90 and the centrosome can be observed in purified centrosomes and after treatment with microtubule depolymerizing drugs, two criteria normally used to define core centrosomal components. Disruption of Hsp90 function by mutations in the Drosophila gene or treatment of mammalian cells with the Hsp90 inhibitor geldanamycin, results in abnormal centrosome separation and maturation, aberrant spindles and impaired chromosome segregation. This suggests that another role of Hsp90 might be to ensure proper centrosome function.
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- B M Lange
- Cell Biology and Cell Biophysics Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Sibon OC, Kelkar A, Lemstra W, Theurkauf WE. DNA-replication/DNA-damage-dependent centrosome inactivation in Drosophila embryos. Nat Cell Biol 2000; 2:90-5. [PMID: 10655588 DOI: 10.1038/35000041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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During early embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster, mutations in the DNA-replication checkpoint lead to chromosome-segregation failures. Here we show that these segregation failures are associated with the assembly of an anastral microtubule spindle, a mitosis-specific loss of centrosome function, and dissociation of several components of the gamma-tubulin ring complex from a core centrosomal structure. The DNA-replication inhibitor aphidicolin and DNA-damaging agents trigger identical mitotic defects in wild-type embryos, indicating that centrosome inactivation is a checkpoint-independent and mitosis-specific response to damaged or incompletely replicated DNA. We propose that centrosome inactivation is part of a damage-control system that blocks chromosome segregation when replication/damage checkpoint control fails.
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- O C Sibon
- Department of Radiobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Gergely F, Kidd D, Jeffers K, Wakefield JG, Raff JW. D-TACC: a novel centrosomal protein required for normal spindle function in the early Drosophila embryo. EMBO J 2000; 19:241-52. [PMID: 10637228 PMCID: PMC305558 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.2.241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/1999] [Revised: 11/10/1999] [Accepted: 11/11/1999] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We identify Drosophila TACC (D-TACC) as a novel protein that is concentrated at centrosomes and interacts with microtubules. We show that D-TACC is essential for normal spindle function in the early embryo; if D-TACC function is perturbed by mutation or antibody injection, the microtubules emanating from centrosomes in embryos are short and chromosomes often fail to segregate properly. The C-terminal region of D-TACC interacts, possibly indirectly, with microtubules, and can target a heterologous fusion protein to centrosomes and microtubules in embryos. This C-terminal region is related to the mammalian transforming, acidic, coiled-coil-containing (TACC) family of proteins. The function of the TACC proteins is unknown, but the genes encoding the known TACC proteins are all associated with genomic regions that are rearranged in certain cancers. We show that at least one of the mammalian TACC proteins appears to be associated with centrosomes and microtubules in human cells. We propose that this conserved C-terminal 'TACC domain' defines a new family of microtubule-interacting proteins.
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- F Gergely
- Wellcome/CRC Institute and Department of Genetics, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK
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Cullen CF, Deák P, Glover DM, Ohkura H. mini spindles: A gene encoding a conserved microtubule-associated protein required for the integrity of the mitotic spindle in Drosophila. J Cell Biol 1999; 146:1005-18. [PMID: 10477755 PMCID: PMC2169485 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.146.5.1005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We describe a new Drosophila gene, mini spindles (msps) identified in a cytological screen for mitotic mutant. Mutation in msps disrupts the structural integrity of the mitotic spindle, resulting in the formation of one or more small additional spindles in diploid cells. Nucleation of microtubules from centrosomes, metaphase alignment of chromosomes, or the focusing of spindle poles appears much less affected. The msps gene encodes a 227-kD protein with high similarity to the vertebrate microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs), human TOGp and Xenopus XMAP215, and with limited similarity to the Dis1 and STU2 proteins from fission yeast and budding yeast. Consistent with their sequence similarity, Msps protein also associates with microtubules in vitro. In the embryonic division cycles, Msps protein localizes to centrosomal regions at all mitotic stages, and spreads over the spindles during metaphase and anaphase. The absence of centrosomal staining in interphase of the cellularized embryos suggests that the interactions between Msps protein and microtubules or centrosomes may be regulated during the cell cycle.
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- C. Fiona Cullen
- Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Research Campaign Laboratories, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, The University of Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom
- Cancer Research Campaign Cell Cycle Genetics Group, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Research Campaign Laboratories, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, The University of Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom
- Cancer Research Campaign Cell Cycle Genetics Group, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, United Kingdom
- Cancer Research Campaign Laboratories, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, The University of Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom
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As an organizer of the microtubule cytoskeleton in animals, the centrosome has an important function. From the early light microscopic observation of the centrosome to examination by electron microscopy, the centrosome field is now in an era of molecular identification and precise functional analyses. Tables compiling centrosomal proteins and reviews on the centrosome are presented here and demonstrate how active the field is. However, despite this intense research activity, many classical questions are still unanswered. These include those regarding the precise function of centrioles, the mechanism of centrosome duplication and assembly, the origin of the centrosome, and the regulation and mechanism of the centrosomal microtubule nucleation activity. Fortunately, these questions are becoming elucidated based on experimental data discussed here. Given the fact that the centrosome is primarily a site of microtubule nucleation, special focus is placed on the process of microtubule nucleation and on the regulation of centrosomal microtubule nucleation capacity during the cell cycle and in some tissues.
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- S S Andersen
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08540-1014, USA
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- M Bornens
- Section de Recherche, Institut Curie, UMR-144/CNRS, Paris, France
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González C, Tavosanis G, Mollinari C. Centrosomes and microtubule organisation during Drosophila development. J Cell Sci 1998; 111 ( Pt 18):2697-706. [PMID: 9718363 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.111.18.2697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Are the microtubule-organising centers of the different cell types of a metazoan interchangeable? If not, what are the differences between them? Do they play any role in the differentiation processes to which these cells are subjected? Nearly one hundred years of centrosome research has established the essential role of this organelle as the main microtubule-organising center of animal cells. But only now are we starting to unveil the answers to the challenging questions which are raised when the centrosome is studied within the context of a pluricellular organism. In this review we present some of the many examples which illustrate how centrosomes and microtubule organisation changes through development in Drosophila and discuss some of its implications.
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- C González
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory Meyerhofstrasse 1, Germany.
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Moritz M, Zheng Y, Alberts BM, Oegema K. Recruitment of the gamma-tubulin ring complex to Drosophila salt-stripped centrosome scaffolds. J Cell Biol 1998; 142:775-86. [PMID: 9700165 PMCID: PMC2148159 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.142.3.775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/1998] [Revised: 06/30/1998] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Extracting isolated Drosophila centrosomes with 2 M KI generates salt-resistant scaffolds that lack the centrosomal proteins CP190, CP60, centrosomin, and gamma-tubulin. To clarify the role of these proteins in microtubule nucleation by centrosomes and to identify additional centrosome components required for nucleation, we have developed an in vitro complementation assay for centrosome function. Centrosome aster formation is reconstituted when these inactive, salt-stripped centrosome scaffolds are supplemented with a soluble fraction of a Drosophila embryo extract. The CP60 and CP190 can be removed from this extract without effect, whereas removing the gamma-tubulin destroys the complementing activity. Consistent with these results, we find no evidence that these three proteins form a complex together. Instead, gamma-tubulin is found in two distinct protein complexes of 240,000 and approximately 3,000,000 D. The larger complex, which is analogous to the Xenopus gamma-tubulin ring complex (gammaTuRC) (Zheng, Y., M.L. Wong, B. Alberts, and T. Mitchison. 1995. Nature. 378:578-583), is necessary but not sufficient for complementation. An additional factor found in the extract is required. These results provide the first evidence that the gammaTuRC is required for microtubule nucleation at the centrosome.
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- M Moritz
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0448, USA
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Shestakova E, Vandekerckhove J, De Mey JR. Epithelial and fibroblastoid cells contain numerous cell-type specific putative microtubule-regulating proteins, among which are ezrin and fodrin. Eur J Cell Biol 1998; 75:309-20. [PMID: 9628317 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-9335(98)80064-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Upon cell junction formation, the microtubules of polarizing epithelial cells become reorganized by unknown signaling mechanisms and regulating proteins. Microtubule-associated (MAPs) and other types of proteins are likely to be involved in this process, but most of these are unknown. Such proteins are called here collectively microtubule-regulating proteins (MRPs). As a first step towards their characterization, we used co-sedimentation of cytosolic proteins of MDCK cells and A72, a dog fibroblastoid line, with an excess of taxol-stabilized MTs, to obtain a cell fraction enriched in putative MRPs ("MRPs"). Additional tests have led to the inventory of around 40 "MRPs" among the 80 proteins present in the microtubule pellet. We also found that "MRPs" are recovered in higher amounts from MDCK cytosol, and that half of these are cell-type specific. These results corroborate data from yeast cells and insect eggs, and show that in mammalian somatic cells too, a large number of proteins seems to be involved in microtubule regulation, and that different cell types use a specific set of MRPs. "MRPs" found in both cell types are the intermediate chain of cytoplasmic dynein, Arp1, the major subunit of the dynactin complex, and CLIP-170. Two MDCK-specific "MRPs" were identified as the actin-binding proteins ezrin and alpha-fodrin. These results are discussed with regard to a possible involvement of ezrin and fodrin in morphogenetic interactions of microtubules with the membrane cytoskeleton in polarizing epithelia upon junction formation.
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- E Shestakova
- Institut Jacques Monod, Department of Supramolecular and Cellular Biology, Université Paris VII, France
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Rothwell WF, Fogarty P, Field CM, Sullivan W. Nuclear-fallout, a Drosophila protein that cycles from the cytoplasm to the centrosomes, regulates cortical microfilament organization. Development 1998; 125:1295-303. [PMID: 9477328 DOI: 10.1242/dev.125.7.1295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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nuclear fallout (nuf) is a maternal effect mutation that specifically disrupts the cortical syncytial divisions during Drosophila embryogenesis. We show that the nuf gene encodes a highly phosphorylated novel protein of 502 amino acids with C-terminal regions predicted to form coiled-coils. During prophase of the late syncytial divisions, Nuf concentrates at the centrosomes and is generally cytoplasmic throughout the rest of the nuclear cycle. In nuf-derived embryos, the recruitment of actin from caps to furrows during prophase is disrupted. This results in incomplete metaphase furrows specifically in regions distant from the centrosomes. The nuf mutation does not disrupt anillin or peanut recruitment to the metaphase furrows indicating that Nuf is not involved in the signaling of metaphase furrow formation. These results also suggest that anillin and peanut localization are independent of actin localization to the metaphase furrows. nuf also disrupts the initial stages of cellularization and produces disruptions in cellularization furrows similar to those observed in the metaphase furrows. The localization of Nuf to centrosomal regions throughout cellularization suggests that it plays a similar role in the initial formation of both metaphase and cellularization furrows. A model is presented in which Nuf provides a functional link between centrosomes and microfilaments.
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- W F Rothwell
- Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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Thissen JA, Gross JM, Subramanian K, Meyer T, Casey PJ. Prenylation-dependent association of Ki-Ras with microtubules. Evidence for a role in subcellular trafficking. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:30362-70. [PMID: 9374526 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.48.30362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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We recently identified a prenyl peptide-binding protein in microsomal membranes from bovine brain (Thissen, J. A., and Casey, P. J. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 13780-13783). Through a variety of approaches, this binding protein has been identified as the cytoskeletal protein tubulin. Prenyl peptides bind to purified tubulin with a Kd of 40 nM and also bind to tubulin polymerized into microtubules. Microtubule affinity chromatography of extracts from cells in which the prenyl protein pool was metabolically labeled revealed that prenyl proteins bound to the immobilized microtubules; one, a 24-kDa protein, was tentatively identified as a GTP-binding protein. Of several prenylated GTP-binding proteins tested, including Ki-Ras4B, Ha-Ras, RhoB, RhoA, and Rap1B, only Ki-Ras was found to bind significantly to microtubules, and this was in a prenylation-dependent fashion. A potential significance of the interaction of Ki-Ras4B with microtubules was indicated from analysis of the localization of newly synthesized Ki-Ras4B and Ha-Ras, each tagged with green fluorescence protein (GFP). Treatment of NIH-3T3 cells expressing GFP-Ki-Ras with Taxol (paclitaxel) resulted in accumulation of the expressed protein in intracellular locations, whereas in control cells the protein was correctly targeted to the plasma membrane. Importantly, such treatment with paclitaxel did not affect the cellular localization of expressed GFP-Ha-Ras. These results indicate that an intact microtubule network may be directly involved in Ki-Ras processing and/or targeting and provide direct evidence for a physiological distinction between Ki-Ras and Ha-Ras in cells. Additionally, the finding that paclitaxel treatment of cells disrupts Ki-Ras trafficking suggests an additional mechanism for the anti-proliferative effects of this drug.
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- J A Thissen
- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710-3686, USA
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Robbins DJ, Nybakken KE, Kobayashi R, Sisson JC, Bishop JM, Thérond PP. Hedgehog elicits signal transduction by means of a large complex containing the kinesin-related protein costal2. Cell 1997; 90:225-34. [PMID: 9244297 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80331-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 313] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The hedgehog gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes a secreted protein (HH) that plays a vital role in cell fate and patterning. Here we describe a protein complex that mediates signal transduction from HH. The complex includes the products of at least three genes: fused (a protein-serine/threonine kinase), cubitus interruptus (a transcription factor), and costal2 (a kinesin-like protein). The complex binds with great affinity to microtubules in the absence of HH, but binding is reversed by HH. Mutations in the extracatalytic domain of FU abolish both the biological function of the protein and its association with COS2. We conclude that the complex may facilitate signaling from HH by governing access of the cubitus interruptus protein to the nucleus.
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- D J Robbins
- G.W. Hooper Foundation and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, 94143-0552, USA
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Sisson JC, Ho KS, Suyama K, Scott MP. Costal2, a novel kinesin-related protein in the Hedgehog signaling pathway. Cell 1997; 90:235-45. [PMID: 9244298 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80332-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 286] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The Hedgehog (HH) signaling proteins control cell fates and patterning during animal development. In Drosophila, HH protein induces the transcription of target genes encoding secondary signals such as DPP and WG proteins by opposing a repressor system. The repressors include Costal2, protein kinase A, and the HH receptor Patched. Like HH, the kinase Fused and the transcription factor Cubitus interruptus (CI) act positively upon targets. Here we show that costal2 encodes a kinesin-related protein that accumulates preferentially in cells capable of responding to HH. COS2 is cytoplasmic and binds microtubules. We find that CI associates with COS2 in a large protein complex, suggesting that COS2 directly controls the activity of CI.
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- J C Sisson
- Department of Developmental Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5427, USA
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Callaini G, Whitfield WG, Riparbelli MG. Centriole and centrosome dynamics during the embryonic cell cycles that follow the formation of the cellular blastoderm in Drosophila. Exp Cell Res 1997; 234:183-90. [PMID: 9223385 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We have used immunofluorescence and electron microscopy to examine centrosome dynamics during the first postblastodermic mitoses in the Drosophila embryo. The centrosomal material, as recognized by antibodies against CP190 and gamma-tubulin, does not show the typical shape changes observed in syncytial embryos, but remains compact throughout mitosis. Centrioles, however, behave as during the syncytial mitoses, with each daughter cell inheriting two separated centrioles at the end of telophase. During interphase in epithelial cells that have a distinct G1 phase, two isolated centrioles are found, suggesting that the separation of sister centrioles is tightly coupled to a mitotic oscillator in both the "abbreviated" and the "complete" embryonic division cycles. The centrioles of the Drosophila embryo sharply differed from the sperm basal body, having a cartwheel structure with nine microtubular doublets and a central tubule. This "immature" centriolar morphology was shown to persist throughout embryonic development, clearly demonstrating that these centrioles are able to replicate despite their apparently neotenic structure.
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- G Callaini
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Siena, Italy
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Wilson PG, Zheng Y, Oakley CE, Oakley BR, Borisy GG, Fuller MT. Differential expression of two gamma-tubulin isoforms during gametogenesis and development in Drosophila. Dev Biol 1997; 184:207-21. [PMID: 9133431 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Previous work identified a gamma-tubulin gene, gamma Tub23C, in Drosophila (Zheng et al., 1991). We now report identification of a second gamma-tubulin gene, gamma Tub37CD. Immunoblot analysis and immunolocalization show that gamma Tub37CD and gamma Tub23C are differentially expressed during gametogenesis and development. During oogenesis, gamma Tub23C was detected at centrosomes and in the cytoplasm of mitotic germ cells, but was not detected in germ cells following completion of mitosis. Conversely, gamma Tub37CD was not detected in proliferating germ cells, but appeared to accumulate in germ cells during egg chamber development. Neither gamma-tubulin isoform was detected at the anterior or posterior poles of developing oocytes. During spermatogenesis, only gamma Tub23C was detected at centrosomes, where it showed cell cycle- and differentiation-dependent organization. During the transition into the first meiotic division, gamma Tub23C became organized as a corpuscular focus at centrioles until completion of meiosis II. During postmeiotic spermatid differentiation, gamma Tub23C was detected first as a rod and then as a collar-like structure near the juncture of the nucleus and the elongating flagellum, but was not detected in bundles of mature sperm. The germline-specific CDC25 encoded by twine is required for organization of gamma Tub23C into corpuscular focus in spermatocytes, but not for separation of centriole pairs in M-phase or postmeiotic organization of gamma Tub23C at centrioles. Following reconstitution of a canonical centrosome at fertilization, only gamma Tub37CD was detected at centrosomes in syncytial embryos, but both gamma Tub37CD and gamma Tub23C were detected at centrosomes in cellularized embryos. Colocalization of these two isoforms suggests that gamma Tub23C and gamma Tub37CD both contain structural features of gamma-tubulins essential for localization to centrosomes.
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- P G Wilson
- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA.
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