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Rodríguez‐Real G, Domínguez‐Calvo A, Prados‐Carvajal R, Bayona‐Feliú A, Gomes‐Pereira S, Balestra FR, Huertas P. Centriolar subdistal appendages promote double-strand break repair through homologous recombination. EMBO Rep 2023; 24:e56724. [PMID: 37664992 PMCID: PMC10561181 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202256724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
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The centrosome is a cytoplasmic organelle with roles in microtubule organization that has also been proposed to act as a hub for cellular signaling. Some centrosomal components are required for full activation of the DNA damage response. However, whether the centrosome regulates specific DNA repair pathways is not known. Here, we show that centrosome presence is required to fully activate recombination, specifically to completely license its initial step, the so-called DNA end resection. Furthermore, we identify a centriolar structure, the subdistal appendages, and a specific factor, CEP170, as the critical centrosomal component involved in the regulation of recombination and resection. Cells lacking centrosomes or depleted for CEP170 are, consequently, hypersensitive to DNA damaging agents. Moreover, low levels of CEP170 in multiple cancer types correlate with an increase of the mutation burden associated with specific mutational signatures and a better prognosis, suggesting that changes in CEP170 can act as a mutation driver but could also be targeted to improve current oncological treatments.
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- Guillermo Rodríguez‐Real
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de BiologíaUniversidad de SevillaSevillaSpain
- Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa‐CABIMERUniversidad de Sevilla‐CSIC‐Universidad Pablo de OlavideSevillaSpain
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- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de BiologíaUniversidad de SevillaSevillaSpain
- Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa‐CABIMERUniversidad de Sevilla‐CSIC‐Universidad Pablo de OlavideSevillaSpain
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- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de BiologíaUniversidad de SevillaSevillaSpain
- Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa‐CABIMERUniversidad de Sevilla‐CSIC‐Universidad Pablo de OlavideSevillaSpain
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- Genome Data Science, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)BarcelonaSpain
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- Department of Cell Biology, Sciences IIIUniversity of GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
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- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de BiologíaUniversidad de SevillaSevillaSpain
- Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa‐CABIMERUniversidad de Sevilla‐CSIC‐Universidad Pablo de OlavideSevillaSpain
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- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de BiologíaUniversidad de SevillaSevillaSpain
- Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa‐CABIMERUniversidad de Sevilla‐CSIC‐Universidad Pablo de OlavideSevillaSpain
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Bloomfield M, Cimini D. The fate of extra centrosomes in newly formed tetraploid cells: should I stay, or should I go? Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1210983. [PMID: 37576603 PMCID: PMC10413984 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1210983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
Abstract
An increase in centrosome number is commonly observed in cancer cells, but the role centrosome amplification plays along with how and when it occurs during cancer development is unclear. One mechanism for generating cancer cells with extra centrosomes is whole genome doubling (WGD), an event that occurs in over 30% of human cancers and is associated with poor survival. Newly formed tetraploid cells can acquire extra centrosomes during WGD, and a generally accepted model proposes that centrosome amplification in tetraploid cells promotes cancer progression by generating aneuploidy and chromosomal instability. Recent findings, however, indicate that newly formed tetraploid cells in vitro lose their extra centrosomes to prevent multipolar cell divisions. Rather than persistent centrosome amplification, this evidence raises the possibility that it may be advantageous for tetraploid cells to initially restore centrosome number homeostasis and for a fraction of the population to reacquire additional centrosomes in the later stages of cancer evolution. In this review, we explore the different evolutionary paths available to newly formed tetraploid cells, their effects on centrosome and chromosome number distribution in daughter cells, and their probabilities of long-term survival. We then discuss the mechanisms that may alter centrosome and chromosome numbers in tetraploid cells and their relevance to cancer progression following WGD.
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- Mathew Bloomfield
- Department of Biological Sciences and Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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Moretti E, Noto D, Corsaro R, Collodel G. Focus on centrin in normal and altered human spermatozoa. Syst Biol Reprod Med 2023; 69:175-187. [PMID: 36892570 DOI: 10.1080/19396368.2023.2181115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/10/2023]
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This review provides details on the role of centrin in human spermatozoa and in various forms of male infertility. Centrin is a calcium (Ca2+)-binding phosphoprotein that is located in the centrioles - which are typical structures of the sperm connecting piece and play a key role in centrosome dynamics during sperm morphogenesis - as well as in zygotes and early embryos during spindle assembly. In humans, three different centrin genes encoding three isoforms have been discovered. Centrin 1, the only one expressed in spermatozoa, seems to be lost inside the oocyte after fertilization. The sperm connecting piece is characterized by the presence of numerous proteins including centrin, that deserves particular attention because, in humans, it is enriched during maturation of the centrioles. In normal sperm, centrin 1 is visible as two distinct spots in the head-tail junction; however, in some defective spermatozoa, centrin 1 distribution is altered. Centrin has been studied in humans and animal models. Its mutations may lead to several structural alterations, such as serious defects in the connective piece and, subsequently, fertilization failure or incomplete embryonic development. However, the effects of these abnormalities on male fertility have not been fully studied. Because the presence and the function of centrin in the sperm connecting piece appears important for reproductive success, additional studies are needed to bring medical benefits in resolving some cases of idiopathic infertility.
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- Elena Moretti
- Department Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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Grønbæk-Thygesen M, Kampmeyer C, Hofmann K, Hartmann-Petersen R. The moonlighting of RAD23 in DNA repair and protein degradation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2023; 1866:194925. [PMID: 36863450 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2023.194925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2022] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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A moonlighting protein is one, which carries out multiple, often wholly unrelated, functions. The RAD23 protein is a fascinating example of this, where the same polypeptide and the embedded domains function independently in both nucleotide excision repair (NER) and protein degradation via the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). Hence, through direct binding to the central NER component XPC, RAD23 stabilizes XPC and contributes to DNA damage recognition. Conversely, RAD23 also interacts directly with the 26S proteasome and ubiquitylated substrates to mediate proteasomal substrate recognition. In this function, RAD23 activates the proteolytic activity of the proteasome and engages specifically in well-characterized degradation pathways through direct interactions with E3 ubiquitin-protein ligases and other UPS components. Here, we summarize the past 40 years of research into the roles of RAD23 in NER and the UPS.
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- Martin Grønbæk-Thygesen
- The Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- The Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany
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- The Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Naumenko NV, Petruseva IO, Lavrik OI. Bulky Adducts in Clustered DNA Lesions: Causes of Resistance to the NER System. Acta Naturae 2022; 14:38-49. [PMID: 36694906 PMCID: PMC9844087 DOI: 10.32607/actanaturae.11741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
The nucleotide excision repair (NER) system removes a wide range of bulky DNA lesions that cause significant distortions of the regular double helix structure. These lesions, mainly bulky covalent DNA adducts, are induced by ultraviolet and ionizing radiation or the interaction between exogenous/endogenous chemically active substances and nitrogenous DNA bases. As the number of DNA lesions increases, e.g., due to intensive chemotherapy and combination therapy of various diseases or DNA repair impairment, clustered lesions containing bulky adducts may occur. Clustered lesions are two or more lesions located within one or two turns of the DNA helix. Despite the fact that repair of single DNA lesions by the NER system in eukaryotic cells has been studied quite thoroughly, the repair mechanism of these lesions in clusters remains obscure. Identification of the structural features of the DNA regions containing irreparable clustered lesions is of considerable interest, in particular due to a relationship between the efficiency of some antitumor drugs and the activity of cellular repair systems. In this review, we analyzed data on the induction of clustered lesions containing bulky adducts, the potential biological significance of these lesions, and methods for quantification of DNA lesions and considered the causes for the inhibition of NER-catalyzed excision of clustered bulky lesions.
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- N. V. Naumenko
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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Laporte MH, Bouhlel IB, Bertiaux E, Morrison CG, Giroud A, Borgers S, Azimzadeh J, Bornens M, Guichard P, Paoletti A, Hamel V. Human SFI1 and Centrin form a complex critical for centriole architecture and ciliogenesis. EMBO J 2022; 41:e112107. [PMID: 36125182 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2022112107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Over the course of evolution, the centrosome function has been conserved in most eukaryotes, but its core architecture has evolved differently in some clades, with the presence of centrioles in humans and a spindle pole body (SPB) in yeast. Similarly, the composition of these two core elements has diverged, with the exception of Centrin and SFI1, which form a complex in yeast to initiate SPB duplication. However, it remains unclear whether this complex exists at centrioles and whether its function has been conserved. Here, using expansion microscopy, we demonstrate that human SFI1 is a centriolar protein that associates with a pool of Centrin at the distal end of the centriole. We also find that both proteins are recruited early during procentriole assembly and that depletion of SFI1 results in the loss of the distal pool of Centrin, without altering centriole duplication. Instead, we show that SFI1/Centrin complex is essential for centriolar architecture, CEP164 distribution, and CP110 removal during ciliogenesis. Together, our work reveals a conserved SFI1/Centrin module displaying divergent functions between mammals and yeast.
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- Marine H Laporte
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut Curie, UMR 144, CNRS, PSL University, Paris, France
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut Curie, UMR 144, CNRS, PSL University, Paris, France
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut Curie, UMR 144, CNRS, PSL University, Paris, France
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Fueling genome maintenance: On the versatile roles of NAD + in preserving DNA integrity. J Biol Chem 2022; 298:102037. [PMID: 35595095 PMCID: PMC9194868 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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NAD+ is a versatile biomolecule acting as a master regulator and substrate in various cellular processes, including redox regulation, metabolism, and various signaling pathways. In this article, we concisely and critically review the role of NAD+ in mechanisms promoting genome maintenance. Numerous NAD+-dependent reactions are involved in the preservation of genome stability, the cellular DNA damage response, and other pathways regulating nucleic acid metabolism, such as gene expression and cell proliferation pathways. Of note, NAD+ serves as a substrate to ADP-ribosyltransferases, sirtuins, and potentially also eukaryotic DNA ligases, all of which regulate various aspects of DNA integrity, damage repair, and gene expression. Finally, we critically analyze recent developments in the field as well as discuss challenges associated with therapeutic actions intended to raise NAD+ levels.
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Phanindranath R, Sudhakar DVS, Thangaraj K, Sharma Y. Conformational scanning of individual EF-hand motifs of calcium sensor protein centrin-1. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2021; 570:67-73. [PMID: 34273620 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.07.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Centrin-1, a Ca2+ sensor protein of the centrin family is a crucial player for cell division in eukaryotes and plays a key role in the microtubule organising centre. Despite being regarded as a calcium sensor with a matched structure to calmodulin/troponin C, the protein undergoes mild changes in conformation and binds Ca2+ with moderate affinity. We present an in-depth analysis of the Ca2+ sensing by individual EF-hand motifs of centrin-1 and address unsolved questions of the rationales for moderate affinity and conformational transitions of the protein. Employing the more sensitive approach of Trp scanning of individual EF-hand motif, we have undertaken an exhaustive investigation of Ca2+ binding to individual EF-hand motifs, named EF1 to EF4. All four EF-hand motifs of centrin-1 are structural as all of them bind both Ca2+ and Mg2+. EF1 and EF4 are the most flexible sites as they undergo drastic conformational changes following Ca2+ binding, whereas EF3 responds to Ca2+ minimally. On the other hand, EF2 moves towards the protein surface upon binding Ca2+. The independent filling mode of Ca2+ to EF-hand motifs and lack of intermotif communication explain the lack of cooperativity of binding, thus constraining centrin-1 to a moderate affinity binding protein. Thus, centrin-1 is distinct from other calcium sensors such as calmodulin.
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India; Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad, India
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Berhampur, India.
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Primary cilia and the DNA damage response: linking a cellular antenna and nuclear signals. Biochem Soc Trans 2021; 49:829-841. [PMID: 33843966 DOI: 10.1042/bst20200751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The maintenance of genome stability involves integrated biochemical activities that detect DNA damage or incomplete replication, delay the cell cycle, and direct DNA repair activities on the affected chromatin. These processes, collectively termed the DNA damage response (DDR), are crucial for cell survival and to avoid disease, particularly cancer. Recent work has highlighted links between the DDR and the primary cilium, an antenna-like, microtubule-based signalling structure that extends from a centriole docked at the cell surface. Ciliary dysfunction gives rise to a range of complex human developmental disorders termed the ciliopathies. Mutations in ciliopathy genes have been shown to impact on several functions that relate to centrosome integrity, DNA damage signalling, responses to problems in DNA replication and the control of gene expression. This review covers recent findings that link cilia and the DDR and explores the various roles played by key genes in these two contexts. It outlines how proteins encoded by ciliary genes impact checkpoint signalling, DNA replication and repair, gene expression and chromatin remodelling. It discusses how these diverse activities may integrate nuclear responses with those that affect a structure of the cell periphery. Additional directions for exploration of the interplay between these pathways are highlighted, with a focus on new ciliary gene candidates that alter genome stability.
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Avidor-Reiss T, Carr A, Fishman EL. The sperm centrioles. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2020; 518:110987. [PMID: 32810575 PMCID: PMC7606549 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2020.110987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Centrioles are eukaryotic subcellular structures that produce and regulate massive cytoskeleton superstructures. They form centrosomes and cilia, regulate new centriole formation, anchor cilia to the cell, and regulate cilia function. These basic centriolar functions are executed in sperm cells during their amplification from spermatogonial stem cells during their differentiation to spermatozoa, and finally, after fertilization, when the sperm fuses with the egg. However, sperm centrioles exhibit many unique characteristics not commonly observed in other cell types, including structural remodeling, centriole-flagellum transition zone migration, and cell membrane association during meiosis. Here, we discuss five roles of sperm centrioles: orchestrating early spermatogenic cell divisions, forming the spermatozoon flagella, linking the spermatozoon head and tail, controlling sperm tail beating, and organizing the cytoskeleton of the zygote post-fertilization. We present the historic discovery of the centriole as a sperm factor that initiates embryogenesis, and recent genetic studies in humans and other mammals evaluating the current evidence for the five functions of sperm centrioles. We also examine information connecting the various sperm centriole functions to distinct clinical phenotypes. The emerging picture is that centrioles are essential sperm components with remarkable functional diversity and specialization that will require extensive and in-depth future studies.
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- Tomer Avidor-Reiss
- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA; Department of Urology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
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Heydeck W, Bayless BA, Stemm-Wolf AJ, O'Toole ET, Fabritius AS, Ozzello C, Nguyen M, Winey M. Tetrahymena Poc5 is a transient basal body component that is important for basal body maturation. J Cell Sci 2020; 133:jcs.240838. [PMID: 32350068 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.240838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2019] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Basal bodies (BBs) are microtubule-based organelles that act as a template for and stabilize cilia at the cell surface. Centrins ubiquitously associate with BBs and function in BB assembly, maturation and stability. Human POC5 (hPOC5) is a highly conserved centrin-binding protein that binds centrins through Sfi1p-like repeats and is required for building full-length, mature centrioles. Here, we use the BB-rich cytoskeleton of Tetrahymena thermophila to characterize Poc5 BB functions. Tetrahymena Poc5 (TtPoc5) uniquely incorporates into assembling BBs and is then removed from mature BBs prior to ciliogenesis. Complete genomic knockout of TtPOC5 leads to a significantly increased production of BBs, yet a markedly reduced ciliary density, both of which are rescued by reintroduction of TtPoc5. A second Tetrahymena POC5-like gene, SFR1, is similarly implicated in modulating BB production. When TtPOC5 and SFR1 are co-deleted, cell viability is compromised and BB overproduction is exacerbated. Overproduced BBs display defective transition zone formation and a diminished capacity for ciliogenesis. This study uncovers a requirement for Poc5 in building mature BBs, providing a possible functional link between hPOC5 mutations and impaired cilia.This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
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- Westley Heydeck
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Gsell C, Richly H, Coin F, Naegeli H. A chromatin scaffold for DNA damage recognition: how histone methyltransferases prime nucleosomes for repair of ultraviolet light-induced lesions. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:1652-1668. [PMID: 31930303 PMCID: PMC7038933 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz1229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The excision of mutagenic DNA adducts by the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway is essential for genome stability, which is key to avoiding genetic diseases, premature aging, cancer and neurologic disorders. Due to the need to process an extraordinarily high damage density embedded in the nucleosome landscape of chromatin, NER activity provides a unique functional caliper to understand how histone modifiers modulate DNA damage responses. At least three distinct lysine methyltransferases (KMTs) targeting histones have been shown to facilitate the detection of ultraviolet (UV) light-induced DNA lesions in the difficult to access DNA wrapped around histones in nucleosomes. By methylating core histones, these KMTs generate docking sites for DNA damage recognition factors before the chromatin structure is ultimately relaxed and the offending lesions are effectively excised. In view of their function in priming nucleosomes for DNA repair, mutations of genes coding for these KMTs are expected to cause the accumulation of DNA damage promoting cancer and other chronic diseases. Research on the question of how KMTs modulate DNA repair might pave the way to the development of pharmacologic agents for novel therapeutic strategies.
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- Corina Gsell
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich-Vetsuisse, Winterthurerstrasse 260, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Department of Molecular Biology, Birkendorfer Str. 65, 88397 Biberach an der Riß, Germany
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Equipe Labélisée Ligue contre le Cancer, Illkirch Cedex, Strasbourg, France
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich-Vetsuisse, Winterthurerstrasse 260, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a highly conserved mechanism to remove helix-distorting DNA lesions. A major substrate for NER is DNA damage caused by environmental genotoxins, most notably ultraviolet radiation. Xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy are three human disorders caused by inherited defects in NER. The symptoms and severity of these diseases vary dramatically, ranging from profound developmental delay to cancer predisposition and accelerated ageing. All three syndromes include developmental abnormalities, indicating an important role for optimal transcription and for NER in protecting against spontaneous DNA damage during embryonic development. Here, we review the current knowledge on genes that function in NER that also affect embryonic development, in particular the development of a fully functional nervous system.
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- Sofia J Araújo
- Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.,Institute of Biomedicine, University of Barcelona (IBUB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University, 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
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Khouj EM, Prosser SL, Tada H, Chong WM, Liao JC, Sugasawa K, Morrison CG. Differential requirements for the EF-hand domains of human centrin 2 in primary ciliogenesis and nucleotide excision repair. J Cell Sci 2019; 132:jcs.228486. [PMID: 31492759 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.228486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Centrin 2 is a small conserved calcium-binding protein that localizes to the centriolar distal lumen in human cells. It is required for efficient primary ciliogenesis and nucleotide excision repair (NER). Centrin 2 forms part of the xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein complex. To explore how centrin 2 contributes to these distinct processes, we mutated the four calcium-binding EF-hand domains of human centrin 2. Centrin 2 in which all four EF-hands had been mutated to ablate calcium binding (4DA mutant) was capable of supporting in vitro NER and was as effective as the wild-type protein in rescuing the UV sensitivity of centrin 2-null cells. However, we found that mutation of any of the EF-hand domains impaired primary ciliogenesis in human TERT-RPE1 cells to the same extent as deletion of centrin 2. Phenotypic analysis of the 4DA mutant revealed defects in centrosome localization, centriole satellite assembly, ciliary assembly and function and in interactions with POC5 and SFI1. These observations indicate that centrin 2 requires calcium-binding capacity for its primary ciliogenesis functions, but not for NER, and suggest that these functions require centrin 2 to be capable of forming complexes with partner proteins.This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
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- Ebtissal M Khouj
- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland.,Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada
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- Biosignal Research Center, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan.,Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- IAMS Academia Sinica, No 1 Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, 10617 Taipei City, Taiwan
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- IAMS Academia Sinica, No 1 Roosevelt Rd Sec 4, 10617 Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Biosignal Research Center, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan.,Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland
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Roques M, Stanway RR, Rea EI, Markus R, Brady D, Holder AA, Guttery DS, Tewari R. Plasmodium centrin PbCEN-4 localizes to the putative MTOC and is dispensable for malaria parasite proliferation. Biol Open 2019; 8:bio.036822. [PMID: 30541825 PMCID: PMC6361220 DOI: 10.1242/bio.036822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Centrins are calmodulin-like phosphoproteins present in the centrosome and play an active role in the duplication, separation and organization of centrosomal structures such as the microtubule-organizing centre (MTOC) during mitosis. They are also major components of the basal body of flagella and cilia. In Plasmodium spp., the parasite that causes malaria, mitosis is closed during asexual replication and the MTOC is embedded within the intact nuclear membrane. The MTOC has been named the centriolar plaque and is similar to the spindle pole body in yeast. In all phases of asexual replication, repeated rounds of nuclear division precede cell division. However, our knowledge of the location and function of centrins during this process is limited. Previous studies have identified four putative centrins in the human parasite Plasmodiumfalciparum. We report here the cellular localization of an alveolate-specific centrin (PbCEN-4) during the atypical cell division of asexual replicative stages, using live cell imaging with the rodent malaria parasite P. berghei as a model system. We show that this centrin forms a multi-protein complex with other centrins, but is dispensable for parasite proliferation. Summary: This study examines the localization of malaria parasite centrin PbCEN4 at the parasite MTOC during closed endomitosis and shows it to be dispensable for proliferation.
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- Magali Roques
- School of Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern 3012, Switzerland
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- School of Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- The Leicester Cancer Research Centre, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE2 7LX, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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Ying G, Frederick JM, Baehr W. Deletion of both centrin 2 (CETN2) and CETN3 destabilizes the distal connecting cilium of mouse photoreceptors. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:3957-3973. [PMID: 30647131 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.006371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2018] [Revised: 01/09/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Centrins (CETN1-4) are ubiquitous and conserved EF-hand-family Ca2+-binding proteins associated with the centrosome, basal body, and transition zone. Deletion of CETN1 or CETN2 in mice causes male infertility or dysosmia, respectively, without affecting photoreceptor function. However, it remains unclear to what extent centrins are redundant with each other in photoreceptors. Here, to explore centrin redundancy, we generated Cetn3 GT/GT single-knockout and Cetn2 -/-;Cetn3 GT/GT double-knockout mice. Whereas the Cetn3 deletion alone did not affect photoreceptor function, simultaneous ablation of Cetn2 and Cetn3 resulted in attenuated scotopic and photopic electroretinography (ERG) responses in mice at 3 months of age, with nearly complete retina degeneration at 1 year. Removal of CETN2 and CETN3 activity from the lumen of the connecting cilium (CC) destabilized the photoreceptor axoneme and reduced the CC length as early as postnatal day 22 (P22). In Cetn2 -/-;Cetn3 GT/GT double-knockout mice, spermatogenesis-associated 7 (SPATA7), a key organizer of the photoreceptor-specific distal CC, was depleted gradually, and CETN1 was condensed to the mid-segment of the CC. Ultrastructural analysis revealed that in this double knockout, the axoneme of the CC expanded radially at the distal end, with vertically misaligned outer segment discs and membrane whorls. These observations suggest that CETN2 and CETN3 cooperate in stabilizing the CC/axoneme structure.
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- Guoxin Ying
- From the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132,
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- From the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132
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- From the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, .,the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, and.,the Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132
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Fisk HA, Thomas JL, Nguyen TB. Breaking Bad: Uncoupling of Modularity in Centriole Biogenesis and the Generation of Excess Centrioles in Cancer. Results Probl Cell Differ 2019; 67:391-411. [PMID: 31435805 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23173-6_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Centrosomes are tiny yet complex cytoplasmic structures that perform a variety of roles related to their ability to act as microtubule-organizing centers. Like the genome, centrosomes are single copy structures that undergo a precise semi-conservative replication once each cell cycle. Precise replication of the centrosome is essential for genome integrity, because the duplicated centrosomes will serve as the poles of a bipolar mitotic spindle, and any number of centrosomes other than two will lead to an aberrant spindle that mis-segregates chromosomes. Indeed, excess centrosomes are observed in a variety of human tumors where they generate abnormal spindles in situ that are thought to participate in tumorigenesis by driving genomic instability. At the heart of the centrosome is a pair of centrioles, and at the heart of centrosome duplication is the replication of this centriole pair. Centriole replication proceeds through a complex macromolecular assembly process. However, while centrosomes may contain as many as 500 proteins, only a handful of proteins have been shown to be essential for centriole replication. Our observations suggest that centriole replication is a modular, bottom-up process that we envision akin to building a house; the proper site of assembly is identified, a foundation is assembled at that site, and subsequent modules are added on top of the foundation. Here, we discuss the data underlying our view of modularity in the centriole assembly process, and suggest that non-essential centriole assembly factors take on greater importance in cancer cells due to their function in coordination between centriole modules, using the Monopolar spindles 1 protein kinase and its substrate Centrin 2 to illustrate our model.
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- Harold A Fisk
- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Inhibitory effect of melittin on endonuclease-like activity of centrin. J Inorg Biochem 2018; 186:280-293. [PMID: 29990752 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2018] [Revised: 04/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein (XPC) and centrin2 are the primary initiators of global genome nucleotide excision repair (NER). Centrin, acts as a member of the EF-hand super family of calcium-binding proteins, playing roles in reconstitution of the vitro NER reaction. To understand the possible molecular and structural properties of the multiprotein process, the interactions of Euplotes octocarinatus centrin (EoCen), melittin, and DNA are described. EoCen shares a sequence identity of 66% with centrin2. Melittin possesses inverse direction hydrophobic triads-leucine-leucine-tryptophan (LLW) which are responsible for centrin binding. It is applied as a natural peptide to mimic centrin target peptide. As a result, it is proved that the integrated protein shows an endonuclease-like activity to DNA. Melittin is capable of interaction with both EoCen and DNA. More importantly, it is found that melittin displays an inhibitory effect on the endonuclease-like activity of centrin when it co-exists with EoCen and DNA in solution. Meanwhile, the DNA-melittin-EoCen ternary complex forms in the process. Quantitative analyses demonstrated by extensive biophysical assays reveal that binding of the peptide to DNA or centrin modulates the binding properties of it to another component. Furthermore, a possible positioning model of DNA and EoCen on melittin is proposed. This finding may constitute a model for that existing between centrin and its target peptide in NER process.
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Ito D, Bettencourt-Dias M. Centrosome Remodelling in Evolution. Cells 2018; 7:E71. [PMID: 29986477 PMCID: PMC6070874 DOI: 10.3390/cells7070071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2018] [Revised: 06/27/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The centrosome is the major microtubule organizing centre (MTOC) in animal cells. The canonical centrosome is composed of two centrioles surrounded by a pericentriolar matrix (PCM). In contrast, yeasts and amoebozoa have lost centrioles and possess acentriolar centrosomes—called the spindle pole body (SPB) and the nucleus-associated body (NAB), respectively. Despite the difference in their structures, centriolar centrosomes and SPBs not only share components but also common biogenesis regulators. In this review, we focus on the SPB and speculate how its structures evolved from the ancestral centrosome. Phylogenetic distribution of molecular components suggests that yeasts gained specific SPB components upon loss of centrioles but maintained PCM components associated with the structure. It is possible that the PCM structure remained even after centrosome remodelling due to its indispensable function to nucleate microtubules. We propose that the yeast SPB has been formed by a step-wise process; (1) an SPB-like precursor structure appeared on the ancestral centriolar centrosome; (2) it interacted with the PCM and the nuclear envelope; and (3) it replaced the roles of centrioles. Acentriolar centrosomes should continue to be a great model to understand how centrosomes evolved and how centrosome biogenesis is regulated.
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- Daisuke Ito
- Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Rua da Quinta Grande 6, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal.
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Rohozinski J, Diaz-Arrastia C, Edwards CL. Do some epithelial ovarian cancers originate from a fallopian tube ciliate cell lineage? Med Hypotheses 2017; 107:16-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2017.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2017] [Revised: 07/10/2017] [Accepted: 07/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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McClure-Begley TD, Klymkowsky MW. Nuclear roles for cilia-associated proteins. Cilia 2017; 6:8. [PMID: 28560031 PMCID: PMC5445336 DOI: 10.1186/s13630-017-0052-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 05/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Cilia appear to be derived, evolutionarily, from structures present in the ancestral (pre-ciliary) eukaryote, such as microtubule-based vesicle trafficking and chromosome segregation systems. Experimental observations suggest that the ciliary gate, the molecular complex that mediates the selective molecular movement between cytoplasmic and ciliary compartments, shares features with nuclear pores. Our hypothesis is that this shared transport machinery is at least partially responsible for the observation that a number of ciliary and ciliogenesis-associated proteins are found within nuclei where they play roles in the regulation of gene expression, DNA repair, and nuclear import and export. Recognizing the potential for such nuclear roles is critical when considering the phenotypic effects that arise from the mutational modification of ciliary proteins.
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- Tristan D McClure-Begley
- Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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- Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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Zhang W, Shi E, Feng Y, Zhao Y, Yang B. Endonuclease-like activity of the N-terminal domain of Euplotes octocarinatus centrin. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra07907a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Euplotes octocarinatus centrin (EoCen) is a member of the EF-hand superfamily of calcium-binding proteins, which refer to nucleotide excision repair (NER).
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- Wenlong Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Insitute of Molecular Science
- Taiyuan 030006
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Insitute of Molecular Science
- Taiyuan 030006
- China
- Department of Pharmacy
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Insitute of Molecular Science
- Taiyuan 030006
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Insitute of Molecular Science
- Taiyuan 030006
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education
- Insitute of Molecular Science
- Taiyuan 030006
- China
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Sfr1, a Tetrahymena thermophila Sfi1 Repeat Protein, Modulates the Production of Cortical Row Basal Bodies. mSphere 2016; 1:mSphere00257-16. [PMID: 27904881 PMCID: PMC5112337 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00257-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Basal bodies and centrioles are structurally similar and, when rendered dysfunctional as a result of improper assembly or maintenance, are associated with human diseases. Centrins are conserved and abundant components of both structures whose basal body and centriolar functions remain incompletely understood. Despite the extensive study of centrins in Tetrahymena thermophila, little is known about how centrin-binding proteins contribute to centrin’s roles in basal body assembly, stability, and orientation. The sole previous study of the large centrin-binding protein family in Tetrahymena revealed a role for Sfr13 in the stabilization and separation of basal bodies. In this study, we found that Sfr1 localizes to all Tetrahymena basal bodies and complete genetic deletion of SFR1 leads to overproduction of basal bodies. The uncovered inhibitory role of Sfr1 in basal body production suggests that centrin-binding proteins, as well as centrins, may influence basal body number both positively and negatively. Basal bodies are essential microtubule-based structures that template, anchor, and orient cilia at the cell surface. Cilia act primarily in the generation of directional fluid flow and sensory reception, both of which are utilized for a broad spectrum of cellular processes. Although basal bodies contribute to vital cell functions, the molecular contributors of their assembly and maintenance are poorly understood. Previous studies of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila revealed important roles for two centrin family members in basal body assembly, separation of new basal bodies, and stability. Here, we characterize the basal body function of a centrin-binding protein, Sfr1, in Tetrahymena. Sfr1 is part of a large family of 13 proteins in Tetrahymena that contain Sfi1 repeats (SFRs), a motif originally identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sfi1 that binds centrin. Sfr1 is the only SFR protein in Tetrahymena that localizes to all cortical row and oral apparatus basal bodies. In addition, Sfr1 resides predominantly at the microtubule scaffold from the proximal cartwheel to the distal transition zone. Complete genomic knockout of SFR1 (sfr1Δ) causes a significant increase in both cortical row basal body density and the number of cortical rows, contributing to an overall overproduction of basal bodies. Reintroduction of Sfr1 into sfr1Δ mutant cells leads to a marked reduction of cortical row basal body density and the total number of cortical row basal bodies. Therefore, Sfr1 directly modulates cortical row basal body production. This study reveals an inhibitory role for Sfr1, and potentially centrins, in Tetrahymena basal body production. IMPORTANCE Basal bodies and centrioles are structurally similar and, when rendered dysfunctional as a result of improper assembly or maintenance, are associated with human diseases. Centrins are conserved and abundant components of both structures whose basal body and centriolar functions remain incompletely understood. Despite the extensive study of centrins in Tetrahymena thermophila, little is known about how centrin-binding proteins contribute to centrin’s roles in basal body assembly, stability, and orientation. The sole previous study of the large centrin-binding protein family in Tetrahymena revealed a role for Sfr13 in the stabilization and separation of basal bodies. In this study, we found that Sfr1 localizes to all Tetrahymena basal bodies and complete genetic deletion of SFR1 leads to overproduction of basal bodies. The uncovered inhibitory role of Sfr1 in basal body production suggests that centrin-binding proteins, as well as centrins, may influence basal body number both positively and negatively.
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Here, we review how DNA damage affects the centrosome and how centrosomes communicate with the DNA damage response (DDR) apparatus. We discuss how several proteins of the DDR are found at centrosomes, including the ATM, ATR, CHK1 and CHK2 kinases, the BRCA1 ubiquitin ligase complex and several members of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase family. Stereotypical centrosome organisation, in which two centriole barrels are orthogonally arranged in a roughly toroidal pericentriolar material (PCM), is strongly affected by exposure to DNA-damaging agents. We describe the genetic dependencies and mechanisms for how the centrioles lose their close association, and the PCM both expands and distorts after DNA damage. Another consequence of genotoxic stress is that centrosomes undergo duplication outside the normal cell cycle stage, meaning that centrosome amplification is commonly seen after DNA damage. We discuss several potential mechanisms for how centrosome numbers become dysregulated after DNA damage and explore the links between the DDR and the PLK1- and separase-dependent mechanisms that drive centriole separation and reduplication. We also describe how centrosome components, such as centrin2, are directly involved in responding to DNA damage. This review outlines current questions on the involvement of centrosomes in the DDR.
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- Lisa I Mullee
- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Biosciences Building, Dangan, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Biosciences Building, Dangan, Galway, Ireland.
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Phanindranath R, Sudhakar DV, Sharma AK, Thangaraj K, Sharma Y. Optimization of purification method and characterization of recombinant human Centrin-1. Protein Expr Purif 2016; 124:48-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2016.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Revised: 05/06/2016] [Accepted: 05/23/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Rüthemann P, Balbo Pogliano C, Naegeli H. Global-genome Nucleotide Excision Repair Controlled by Ubiquitin/Sumo Modifiers. Front Genet 2016; 7:68. [PMID: 27200078 PMCID: PMC4848295 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2016] [Accepted: 04/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Global-genome nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER) prevents genome instability by excising a wide range of different DNA base adducts and crosslinks induced by chemical carcinogens, ultraviolet (UV) light or intracellular side products of metabolism. As a versatile damage sensor, xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) protein initiates this generic defense reaction by locating the damage and recruiting the subunits of a large lesion demarcation complex that, in turn, triggers the excision of aberrant DNA by endonucleases. In the very special case of a DNA repair response to UV radiation, the function of this XPC initiator is tightly controlled by the dual action of cullin-type CRL4(DDB2) and sumo-targeted RNF111 ubiquitin ligases. This twofold protein ubiquitination system promotes GG-NER reactions by spatially and temporally regulating the interaction of XPC protein with damaged DNA across the nucleosome landscape of chromatin. In the absence of either CRL4(DDB2) or RNF111, the DNA excision repair of UV lesions is inefficient, indicating that these two ubiquitin ligases play a critical role in mitigating the adverse biological effects of UV light in the exposed skin.
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- Peter Rüthemann
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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The yeast spindle pole body (SPB) is the functional equivalent of the mammalian centrosome. Centrosomes and SPBs duplicate exactly once per cell cycle by mechanisms that use the mother structure as a platform for the assembly of the daughter. The conserved Sfi1 and centrin proteins are essential components of the SPB duplication process. Sfi1 is an elongated molecule that has, in its center, 20 to 23 binding sites for the Ca(2+)-binding protein centrin. In the yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiae, all Sfi1 N termini are in contact with the mother SPB whereas the free C termini are distal to it. During S phase and early mitosis, cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (Cdk1) phosphorylation of mainly serine residues in the Sfi1 C termini blocks the initiation of SPB duplication ("off" state). Upon anaphase onset, the phosphatase Cdc14 dephosphorylates Sfi1 ("on" state) to promote antiparallel and shifted incorporation of cytoplasmic Sfi1 molecules into the half-bridge layer, which thereby elongates into the bridge. The Sfi1 C termini of the two Sfi1 layers localize in the bridge center, whereas the N termini of the newly assembled Sfi1 molecules are distal to the mother SPB. These free Sfi1 N termini then assemble the new SPB in G1phase. Recruitment of Sfi1 molecules into the anaphase SPB and bridge formation were also observed inSchizosaccharomyces pombe, suggesting that the Sfi1 bridge cycle is conserved between the two organisms. Thus, restricting SPB duplication to one event per cell cycle requires only an oscillation between Cdk1 kinase and Cdc14 phosphatase activities. This clockwork regulates the "on"/"off" state of the Sfi1-centrin receiver.
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Puumalainen MR, Rüthemann P, Min JH, Naegeli H. Xeroderma pigmentosum group C sensor: unprecedented recognition strategy and tight spatiotemporal regulation. Cell Mol Life Sci 2016; 73:547-66. [PMID: 26521083 PMCID: PMC4713717 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-2075-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Revised: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 10/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The cellular defense system known as global-genome nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER) safeguards genome stability by eliminating a plethora of structurally unrelated DNA adducts inflicted by chemical carcinogens, ultraviolet (UV) radiation or endogenous metabolic by-products. Xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) protein provides the promiscuous damage sensor that initiates this versatile NER reaction through the sequential recruitment of DNA helicases and endonucleases, which in turn recognize and excise insulting base adducts. As a DNA damage sensor, XPC protein is very unique in that it (a) displays an extremely wide substrate range, (b) localizes DNA lesions by an entirely indirect readout strategy, (c) recruits not only NER factors but also multiple repair players, (d) interacts avidly with undamaged DNA, (e) also interrogates nucleosome-wrapped DNA irrespective of chromatin compaction and (f) additionally functions beyond repair as a co-activator of RNA polymerase II-mediated transcription. Many recent reports highlighted the complexity of a post-translational circuit that uses polypeptide modifiers to regulate the spatiotemporal activity of this multiuse sensor during the UV damage response in human skin. A newly emerging concept is that stringent regulation of the diverse XPC functions is needed to prioritize DNA repair while avoiding the futile processing of undamaged genes or silent genomic sequences.
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- Marjo-Riitta Puumalainen
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
- Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Translational Medicine and Chemical Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Daly OM, Gaboriau D, Karakaya K, King S, Dantas TJ, Lalor P, Dockery P, Krämer A, Morrison CG. Gene-targeted CEP164-deficient cells show a ciliation defect with intact DNA repair capacity. J Cell Sci 2016; 129:1769-74. [DOI: 10.1242/jcs.186221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Primary cilia are microtubule structures that extend from the distal end of the mature, mother centriole. CEP164 is a component of the distal appendages carried by the mother centriole that is required for primary cilium formation. Recent data have implicated CEP164 as a ciliopathy gene and suggest that CEP164 plays some roles in the DNA damage response (DDR). We used reverse genetics to test the role of CEP164 in the DDR. We found that conditional depletion of CEP164 in chicken DT40 cells using an auxin-inducible degron led to no increase in sensitivity to DNA damage induced by ionising or ultraviolet irradiation. Disruption of CEP164 in human retinal pigmented epithelial cells blocked primary cilium formation but did not affect cellular proliferation or cellular responses to ionising or ultraviolet irradiation. Furthermore, we observed no localisation of CEP164 to the nucleus using immunofluorescence microscopy and analysis of multiple tagged forms of CEP164. Our data suggest that CEP164 is not required in the DDR.
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- Owen M. Daly
- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Clinical Cooperation Unit Molecular Hematology/Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Anatomy, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Anatomy, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Clinical Cooperation Unit Molecular Hematology/Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Sawant DB, Majumder S, Perkins JL, Yang CH, Eyers PA, Fisk HA. Centrin 3 is an inhibitor of centrosomal Mps1 and antagonizes centrin 2 function. Mol Biol Cell 2015; 26:3741-53. [PMID: 26354417 PMCID: PMC4626060 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-07-1248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2014] [Accepted: 09/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Centrins are a family of small, calcium-binding proteins with diverse cellular functions that play an important role in centrosome biology. We previously identified centrin 2 and centrin 3 (Cetn2 and Cetn3) as substrates of the protein kinase Mps1. However, although Mps1 phosphorylation sites control the function of Cetn2 in centriole assembly and promote centriole overproduction, Cetn2 and Cetn3 are not functionally interchangeable, and we show here that Cetn3 is both a biochemical inhibitor of Mps1 catalytic activity and a biological inhibitor of centrosome duplication. In vitro, Cetn3 inhibits Mps1 autophosphorylation at Thr-676, a known site of T-loop autoactivation, and interferes with Mps1-dependent phosphorylation of Cetn2. The cellular overexpression of Cetn3 attenuates the incorporation of Cetn2 into centrioles and centrosome reduplication, whereas depletion of Cetn3 generates extra centrioles. Finally, overexpression of Cetn3 reduces Mps1 Thr-676 phosphorylation at centrosomes, and mimicking Mps1-dependent phosphorylation of Cetn2 bypasses the inhibitory effect of Cetn3, suggesting that the biological effects of Cetn3 are due to the inhibition of Mps1 function at centrosomes.
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- Dwitiya B Sawant
- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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Seybold C, Elserafy M, Rüthnick D, Ozboyaci M, Neuner A, Flottmann B, Heilemann M, Wade RC, Schiebel E. Kar1 binding to Sfi1 C-terminal regions anchors the SPB bridge to the nuclear envelope. J Cell Biol 2015; 209:843-61. [PMID: 26076691 PMCID: PMC4477856 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201412050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The yeast spindle pole body (SPB) is the functional equivalent of the mammalian centrosome. The half bridge is a SPB substructure on the nuclear envelope (NE), playing a key role in SPB duplication. Its cytoplasmic components are the membrane-anchored Kar1, the yeast centrin Cdc31, and the Cdc31-binding protein Sfi1. In G1, the half bridge expands into the bridge through Sfi1 C-terminal (Sfi1-CT) dimerization, the licensing step for SPB duplication. We exploited photo-activated localization microscopy (PALM) to show that Kar1 localizes in the bridge center. Binding assays revealed direct interaction between Kar1 and C-terminal Sfi1 fragments. kar1Δ cells whose viability was maintained by the dominant CDC31-16 showed an arched bridge, indicating Kar1's function in tethering Sfi1 to the NE. Cdc31-16 enhanced Cdc31-Cdc31 interactions between Sfi1-Cdc31 layers, as suggested by binding free energy calculations. In our model, Kar1 binding is restricted to Sfi1-CT and Sfi1 C-terminal centrin-binding repeats, and centrin and Kar1 provide cross-links, while Sfi1-CT stabilizes the bridge and ensures timely SPB separation.
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- Christian Seybold
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Functional Neuroanatomy, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Functional Neuroanatomy, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Shi J, Zhao Y, Vonderfecht T, Winey M, Klymkowsky MW. Centrin-2 (Cetn2) mediated regulation of FGF/FGFR gene expression in Xenopus. Sci Rep 2015; 5:10283. [PMID: 26014913 PMCID: PMC4650658 DOI: 10.1038/srep10283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Accepted: 03/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Centrins (Cetns) are highly conserved, widely expressed, and multifunctional Ca2+-binding eukaryotic signature proteins best known for their roles in ciliogenesis and as critical components of the global genome nucleotide excision repair system. Two distinct Cetn subtypes, Cetn2-like and Cetn3-like, have been recognized and implicated in a range of cellular processes. In the course of morpholino-based loss of function studies in Xenopus laevis, we have identified a previously unreported Cetn2-specific function, namely in fibroblast growth factor (FGF) mediated signaling, specifically through the regulation of FGF and FGF receptor RNA levels. Cetn2 was found associated with the RNA polymerase II binding sites of the Cetn2-regulated FGF8 and FGFR1a genes, but not at the promoter of a gene (BMP4) whose expression was altered indirectly in Cent2 morphant embryos. These observations point to a previously unexpected role of Cetn2 in the regulation of gene expression and embryonic development.
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- Jianli Shi
- Molecular, Cellular &Developmental Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309
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- Molecular, Cellular &Developmental Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309
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- Molecular, Cellular &Developmental Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309
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- Molecular, Cellular &Developmental Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309
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- Molecular, Cellular &Developmental Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309
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The centrosome proteome comprises hundreds of proteins whose function at the organelle and in the cellular context is unknown. Loss-of-function studies present a powerful tool to probe the roles of these individual constituents and hence improve our insight into key questions of centrosome biology such as how centrosomes are built, how they duplicate, and which cellular processes they partake in. In cultured cells ribonucleic acid (RNA) interference remains the most widely used method to achieve protein depletion, but due to the remarkable stability of many centrosome components depletion is often incomplete. In such instances genome editing provides a viable alternative. The exceptionally high homologous recombination rate of chicken DT40 cells makes this lymphocytic cell line ideal for genetic manipulation. Here we describe methods for the design and generation of knockouts and in situ tagging of genes in these cells. Furthermore, we report an optimized technique that allows isolation of centrosomes from DT40 cells for use in in vitro functional assays and proteomic analysis. Gene editing by CRISPR-Cas9 technology is fast replacing RNA interference as a method of choice for loss-of-function studies, but the combination of the fast cell cycle, the robustness in culture and ease of gene targeting, will continue to make DT40 cells a useful model system for studies of vertebrate protein function.
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- Pavithra L Chavali
- Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge, UK
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Centrioles are among the largest protein-based structures found in most cell types, measuring approximately 250 nm in diameter and approximately 500 nm long in vertebrate cells. Here, we briefly review ultrastructural observations about centrioles and associated structures. At the core of most centrioles is a microtubule scaffold formed from a radial array of nine triplet microtubules. Beyond the microtubule triplets of the centriole, we discuss the critically important cartwheel structure and the more enigmatic luminal density, both found on the inside of the centriole. Finally, we discuss the connectors between centrioles, and the distal and subdistal appendages outside of the microtubule scaffold that reflect centriole age and impart special functions to the centriole. Most of the work we review has been done with electron microscopy or electron tomography of resin-embedded samples, but we also highlight recent work performed with cryoelectron microscopy, cryotomography and subvolume averaging. Significant opportunities remain in the description of centriolar structure, both in mapping of component proteins within the structure and in determining the effect of mutations on components that contribute to the structure and function of the centriole.
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- Mark Winey
- Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA The Boulder Laboratory for the 3D EM of Cells, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Bornens M, Gönczy P. Centrosomes back in the limelight. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 369:rstb.2013.0452. [PMID: 25047606 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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- Michel Bornens
- UMR 144 CNRS-Institut CURIE, 26 rue d'Ulm 75 248, PARIS Cedex 05, France
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- Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland
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Arquint C, Gabryjonczyk AM, Nigg EA. Centrosomes as signalling centres. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 369:rstb.2013.0464. [PMID: 25047618 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Centrosomes-as well as the related spindle pole bodies (SPBs) of yeast-have been extensively studied from the perspective of their microtubule-organizing roles. Moreover, the biogenesis and duplication of these organelles have been the subject of much attention, and the importance of centrosomes and the centriole-ciliary apparatus for human disease is well recognized. Much less developed is our understanding of another facet of centrosomes and SPBs, namely their possible role as signalling centres. Yet, many signalling components, including kinases and phosphatases, have been associated with centrosomes and spindle poles, giving rise to the hypothesis that these organelles might serve as hubs for the integration and coordination of signalling pathways. In this review, we discuss a number of selected studies that bear on this notion. We cover different processes (cell cycle control, development, DNA damage response) and organisms (yeast, invertebrates and vertebrates), but have made no attempt to be comprehensive. This field is still young and although the concept of centrosomes and SPBs as signalling centres is attractive, it remains primarily a concept-in need of further scrutiny. We hope that this review will stimulate thought and experimentation.
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- Christian Arquint
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50/70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50/70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Kilmartin JV. Lessons from yeast: the spindle pole body and the centrosome. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 369:rstb.2013.0456. [PMID: 25047610 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The yeast spindle pole body (SPB) is the functional equivalent of the centrosome. Most SPB components have been identified and their functions partly established. This involved a large variety of techniques which are described here, and the potential use of some of these in the centrosome field is highlighted. In particular, very useful structural information on the SPB was obtained from a reconstituted complex, the γ-tubulin complex, and also from a sub-particle, SPB cores, prepared by extraction of an enriched SPB preparation. The labelling of SPB proteins with GFP at the N or C termini, using GFP tags inserted into the genome, gave informative electron microscopy localization and fluorescence resonance energy transfer data. Examples are given of more precise functional data obtained by removing domains from one SPB protein, Spc110p, without affecting its essential function. Finally, a structural model for SPB duplication is described and the differences between SPB and centrosome duplication discussed.
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- John V Kilmartin
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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Centrin2 is required for efficient ciliogenesis in lymphocytes and epithelial cells through the removal of the ciliation inhibitor CP110. Primary cilia are antenna-like sensory microtubule structures that extend from basal bodies, plasma membrane–docked mother centrioles. Cellular quiescence potentiates ciliogenesis, but the regulation of basal body formation is not fully understood. We used reverse genetics to test the role of the small calcium-binding protein, centrin2, in ciliogenesis. Primary cilia arise in most cell types but have not been described in lymphocytes. We show here that serum starvation of transformed, cultured B and T cells caused primary ciliogenesis. Efficient ciliogenesis in chicken DT40 B lymphocytes required centrin2. We disrupted CETN2 in human retinal pigmented epithelial cells, and despite having intact centrioles, they were unable to make cilia upon serum starvation, showing abnormal localization of distal appendage proteins and failing to remove the ciliation inhibitor CP110. Knockdown of CP110 rescued ciliation in CETN2-deficient cells. Thus, centrin2 regulates primary ciliogenesis through controlling CP110 levels.
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- Suzanna L Prosser
- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Centrin 2 is required for mouse olfactory ciliary trafficking and development of ependymal cilia planar polarity. J Neurosci 2014; 34:6377-88. [PMID: 24790208 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0067-14.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Centrins are ancient calmodulin-related Ca(2+)-binding proteins associated with basal bodies. In lower eukaryotes, Centrin2 (CETN2) is required for basal body replication and positioning, although its function in mammals is undefined. We generated a germline CETN2 knock-out (KO) mouse presenting with syndromic ciliopathy including dysosmia and hydrocephalus. Absence of CETN2 leads to olfactory cilia loss, impaired ciliary trafficking of olfactory signaling proteins, adenylate cyclase III (ACIII), and cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channel, as well as disrupted basal body apical migration in postnatal olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs). In mutant OSNs, cilia base-anchoring of intraflagellar transport components IFT88, the kinesin-II subunit KIF3A, and cytoplasmic dynein 2 appeared compromised. Although the densities of mutant ependymal and respiratory cilia were largely normal, the planar polarity of mutant ependymal cilia was disrupted, resulting in uncoordinated flow of CSF. Transgenic expression of GFP-CETN2 rescued the Cetn2-deficiency phenotype. These results indicate that mammalian basal body replication and ciliogenesis occur independently of CETN2; however, mouse CETN2 regulates protein trafficking of olfactory cilia and participates in specifying planar polarity of ependymal cilia.
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The centrosome duplication cycle in health and disease. FEBS Lett 2014; 588:2366-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.06.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2014] [Revised: 06/06/2014] [Accepted: 06/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Inanç B, Pütz M, Lalor P, Dockery P, Kuriyama R, Gergely F, Morrison CG. Abnormal centrosomal structure and duplication in Cep135-deficient vertebrate cells. Mol Biol Cell 2013; 24:2645-54. [PMID: 23864714 PMCID: PMC3756917 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-03-0149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Revised: 06/26/2013] [Accepted: 07/01/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Centrosomes are key microtubule-organizing centers that contain a pair of centrioles, conserved cylindrical, microtubule-based structures. Centrosome duplication occurs once per cell cycle and relies on templated centriole assembly. In many animal cells this process starts with the formation of a radially symmetrical cartwheel structure. The centrosomal protein Cep135 localizes to this cartwheel, but its role in vertebrates is not well understood. Here we examine the involvement of Cep135 in centriole function by disrupting the Cep135 gene in the DT40 chicken B-cell line. DT40 cells that lack Cep135 are viable and show no major defects in centrosome composition or function, although we note a small decrease in centriole numbers and a concomitant increase in the frequency of monopolar spindles. Furthermore, electron microscopy reveals an atypical structure in the lumen of Cep135-deficient centrioles. Centrosome amplification after hydroxyurea treatment increases significantly in Cep135-deficient cells, suggesting an inhibitory role for the protein in centrosome reduplication during S-phase delay. We propose that Cep135 is required for the structural integrity of centrioles in proliferating vertebrate cells, a role that also limits centrosome amplification in S-phase-arrested cells.
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- Burcu Inanç
- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge CB2 0RE, United Kingdom
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- Anatomy, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Anatomy, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge CB2 0RE, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Dantas TJ, Daly OM, Conroy PC, Tomas M, Wang Y, Lalor P, Dockery P, Ferrando-May E, Morrison CG. Calcium-binding capacity of centrin2 is required for linear POC5 assembly but not for nucleotide excision repair. PLoS One 2013; 8:e68487. [PMID: 23844208 PMCID: PMC3699651 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Accepted: 05/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Centrosomes, the principal microtubule-organising centres in animal cells, contain centrins, small, conserved calcium-binding proteins unique to eukaryotes. Centrin2 binds to xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein (XPC), stabilising it, and its presence slightly increases nucleotide excision repair (NER) activity in vitro. In previous work, we deleted all three centrin isoforms present in chicken DT40 cells and observed delayed repair of UV-induced DNA lesions, but no centrosome abnormalities. Here, we explore how centrin2 controls NER. In the centrin null cells, we expressed centrin2 mutants that cannot bind calcium or that lack sites for phosphorylation by regulatory kinases. Expression of any of these mutants restored the UV sensitivity of centrin null cells to normal as effectively as expression of wild-type centrin. However, calcium-binding-deficient and T118A mutants showed greatly compromised localisation to centrosomes. XPC recruitment to laser-induced UV-like lesions was only slightly slower in centrin-deficient cells than in controls, and levels of XPC and its partner HRAD23B were unaffected by centrin deficiency. Interestingly, we found that overexpression of the centrin interactor POC5 leads to the assembly of linear, centrin-dependent structures that recruit other centrosomal proteins such as PCM-1 and NEDD1. Together, these observations suggest that assembly of centrins into complex structures requires calcium binding capacity, but that such assembly is not required for centrin activity in NER.
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- Tiago J. Dantas
- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Bioimaging Center, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Department of Physics, Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Anatomy, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Anatomy, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Novara F, Rizzo A, Bedini G, Girgenti V, Esposito S, Pantaleoni C, Ciccone R, Sciacca FL, Achille V, Della Mina E, Gana S, Zuffardi O, Estienne M. MEF2C deletions and mutations versus duplications: a clinical comparison. Eur J Med Genet 2013; 56:260-5. [PMID: 23402836 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2013.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2012] [Accepted: 01/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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5q14.3 deletions including the MEF2C gene have been identified to date using genomic arrays in patients with severe developmental delay or intellectual disability, stereotypic behavior, epilepsy, cerebral malformations and a facial gestalt not really distinctive though characterized by broad and/or high, bulging forehead, upslanting palpebral fissures, flat nasal root and bridge, small, upturned nose, hypotonic small mouth resulting in cupid bow/tented upper lip. MEF2C mutations have been also identified in patients with overlapping phenotype so that it is considered the gene responsible for the 5q14.3 deletion syndrome. To date, one single duplication including MEF2C has been reported in a patient with intellectual disability but its clinical significance remains uncertain also because of the large size of the imbalance. Here we present two further patients with 5q14.3 duplications including MEF2C. Their phenotype indeed suggest the pathogenic effect of the MEF2C duplication although other duplicated genes also brain expressed might contribute to the clinical features. In none of them a clear-cut syndrome can be identified. A comparison between MEF2C deleted/mutated and duplicated patients is also presented.
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- Francesca Novara
- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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Wang Y, Dantas TJ, Lalor P, Dockery P, Morrison CG. Promoter hijack reveals pericentrin functions in mitosis and the DNA damage response. Cell Cycle 2013; 12:635-46. [PMID: 23324397 DOI: 10.4161/cc.23516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Centrosomes, the principal microtubule-organizing centers of animal somatic cells, consist of two centrioles embedded in the pericentriolar material (PCM). Pericentrin is a large PCM protein that is required for normal PCM assembly. Mutations in PCNT cause primordial dwarfism. Pericentrin has also been implicated in the control of DNA damage responses. To test how pericentrin is involved in cell cycle control after genotoxic stress, we disrupted the Pcnt locus in chicken DT40 cells. Pericentrin-deficient cells proceeded through mitosis more slowly, with a high level of monopolar spindles, and were more sensitive to spindle poisons than controls. Centriole structures appeared normal by light and electron microscopy, but the PCM did not recruit γ-tubulin efficiently. Cell cycle delays after ionizing radiation (IR) treatment were normal in pericentrin-deficient cells. However, pericentrin disruption in Mcph1-/- cells abrogated centrosome hyperamplification after IR. We conclude that pericentrin controls genomic stability by both ensuring appropriate mitotic spindle activity and centrosome regulation.
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- Yifan Wang
- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Vonderfecht T, Cookson MW, Giddings TH, Clarissa C, Winey M. The two human centrin homologues have similar but distinct functions at Tetrahymena basal bodies. Mol Biol Cell 2012; 23:4766-77. [PMID: 23087207 PMCID: PMC3521684 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e12-06-0454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Centrins are a ubiquitous family of small Ca(2+)-binding proteins found at basal bodies that are placed into two groups based on sequence similarity to the human centrins 2 and 3. Analyses of basal body composition in different species suggest that they contain a centrin isoform from each group. We used the ciliate protist Tetrahymena thermophila to gain a better understanding of the functions of the two centrin groups and to determine their potential redundancy. We have previously shown that the Tetrahymena centrin 1 (Cen1), a human centrin 2 homologue, is required for proper basal body function. In this paper, we show that the Tetrahymena centrin 2 (Cen2), a human centrin 3 homologue, has functions similar to Cen1 in basal body orientation, maintenance, and separation. The two are, however, not redundant. A further examination of human centrin 3 homologues shows that they function in a manner distinct from human centrin 2 homologues. Our data suggest that basal bodies require a centrin from both groups in order to function correctly.
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- Tyson Vonderfecht
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Dantas TJ, Daly OM, Morrison CG. Such small hands: the roles of centrins/caltractins in the centriole and in genome maintenance. Cell Mol Life Sci 2012; 69:2979-97. [PMID: 22460578 PMCID: PMC11114748 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-0961-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2011] [Revised: 02/20/2012] [Accepted: 03/12/2012] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Centrins are small, highly conserved members of the EF-hand superfamily of calcium-binding proteins that are found throughout eukaryotes. They play a major role in ensuring the duplication and appropriate functioning of the ciliary basal bodies in ciliated cells. They have also been localised to the centrosome, which is the major microtubule organising centre in animal somatic cells. We describe the identification, cloning and characterisation of centrins in multiple eukaryotic species. Although centrins have been implicated in centriole biogenesis, recent results have indicated that centrosome duplication can, in fact, occur in the absence of centrins. We discuss these data and the non-centrosomal functions that are emerging for the centrins. In particular, we discuss the involvement of centrins in nucleotide excision repair, a process that repairs the DNA lesions that are induced primarily by ultraviolet irradiation. We discuss how centrin may be involved in these diverse processes and contribute to nuclear and cytoplasmic events.
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- Tiago J. Dantas
- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
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Zhang Y, He CY. Centrins in unicellular organisms: functional diversity and specialization. PROTOPLASMA 2012; 249:459-467. [PMID: 21786168 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-011-0305-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2011] [Accepted: 07/10/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Centrins (also known as caltractins) are conserved, EF hand-containing proteins ubiquitously found in eukaryotes. Similar to calmodulins, the calcium-binding EF hands in centrins fold into two structurally similar domains separated by an alpha-helical linker region, shaping like a dumbbell. The small size (15-22 kDa) and domain organization of centrins and their functional diversity/specialization make them an ideal system to study protein structure-function relationship. Here, we review the work on centrins with a focus on their structures and functions characterized in unicellular organisms.
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- Yu Zhang
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore, 117543, Singapore
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Delaval B, Covassin L, Lawson ND, Doxsey S. Centrin depletion causes cyst formation and other ciliopathy-related phenotypes in zebrafish. Cell Cycle 2011; 10:3964-72. [PMID: 22142866 DOI: 10.4161/cc.10.22.18150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Most bona fide centrosome proteins including centrins, small calcium-binding proteins, participate in spindle function during mitosis and play a role in cilia assembly in non-cycling cells. Although the basic cellular functions of centrins have been studied in lower eukaryotes and vertebrate cells in culture, phenotypes associated with centrin depletion in vertebrates in vivo has not been directly addressed. To test this, we depleted centrin2 in zebrafish and found that it leads to ciliopathy phenotypes including enlarged pronephric tubules and pronephric cysts. Consistent with the ciliopathy phenotypes, cilia defects were observed in differentiated epithelial cells of ciliated organs such as the olfactory bulb and pronephric duct. The organ phenotypes were also accompanied by cell cycle deregulation namely mitotic delay resulting from mitotic defects. Overall, this work demonstrates that centrin2 depletion causes cilia-related disorders in zebrafish. Moreover, given the presence of both cilia and mitotic defects in the affected organs, it suggests that cilia disorders may arise from a combination of these defects.
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- Benedicte Delaval
- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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