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Li Z, Liu Y, Jones AW, Watanabe Y. Acetylation of Rec8 cohesin complexes regulates reductional chromosome segregation in meiosis. Life Sci Alliance 2024; 7:e202402606. [PMID: 38575358 PMCID: PMC10994779 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202402606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2024] [Revised: 03/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/06/2024] Open
Abstract
For establishing sister chromatid cohesion and proper chromosome segregation in mitosis in fission yeast, the acetyltransferase Eso1 plays a key role. Eso1 acetylates cohesin complexes, at two conserved lysine residues K105 and K106 of the cohesin subunit Psm3. Although Eso1 also contributes to reductional chromosome segregation in meiosis, the underlying molecular mechanisms have remained elusive. Here, we purified meiosis-specific Rec8 cohesin complexes localized at centromeres and identified a new acetylation at Psm3-K1013, which largely depends on the meiotic kinetochore factor meikin (Moa1). Our molecular genetic analyses indicate that Psm3-K1013 acetylation cooperates with canonical acetylation at Psm3-K105 and K106, and plays a crucial role in establishing reductional chromosome segregation in meiosis.
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- Ziqiang Li
- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 School of Bioengineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 School of Bioengineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Cell Cycle Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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Liu Y, Min Y, Liu Y, Watanabe Y. Phosphorylation of Rec8 cohesin complexes regulates mono-orientation of kinetochores in meiosis I. Life Sci Alliance 2024; 7:e202302556. [PMID: 38448160 PMCID: PMC10917647 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202302556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024] Open
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In meiosis I, unlike in mitosis, sister kinetochores are captured by microtubules emanating from the same spindle pole (mono-orientation) and centromeric cohesion mediated by cohesin is protected in the following anaphase I. The conserved meiosis-specific kinetochore protein meikin (Moa1 in fission yeast) associates with polo-like kinase: Plo1 and regulates both mono-orientation and cohesion protection. Although the phosphorylation of Rec8-S450 by Plo1 associated with Moa1 plays a key role in cohesion protection, how Moa1-Plo1 regulates mono-orientation remains elusive. Here, we identify Plo1 phosphorylation sites in the cohesin subunits, Rec8 and Psm3. The non-phosphorylatable mutations at these sites showed specific defects in mono-orientation. These results enabled the genetic dissection of meikin functions at the centromeres.
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- Yu Liu
- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 School of Bioengineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 School of Bioengineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 School of Bioengineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- https://ror.org/04mkzax54 Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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Rojas J, Oz T, Jonak K, Lyzak O, Massaad V, Biriuk O, Zachariae W. Spo13/MEIKIN ensures a Two-Division meiosis by preventing the activation of APC/C Ama1 at meiosis I. EMBO J 2023; 42:e114288. [PMID: 37728253 PMCID: PMC10577557 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2023114288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 09/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Genome haploidization at meiosis depends on two consecutive nuclear divisions, which are controlled by an oscillatory system consisting of Cdk1-cyclin B and the APC/C bound to the Cdc20 activator. How the oscillator generates exactly two divisions has been unclear. We have studied this question in yeast where exit from meiosis involves accumulation of the APC/C activator Ama1 at meiosis II. We show that inactivation of the meiosis I-specific protein Spo13/MEIKIN results in a single-division meiosis due to premature activation of APC/CAma1 . In the wild type, Spo13 bound to the polo-like kinase Cdc5 prevents Ama1 synthesis at meiosis I by stabilizing the translational repressor Rim4. In addition, Cdc5-Spo13 inhibits the activity of Ama1 by converting the B-type cyclin Clb1 from a substrate to an inhibitor of Ama1. Cdc20-dependent degradation of Spo13 at anaphase I unleashes a feedback loop that increases Ama1's synthesis and activity, leading to irreversible exit from meiosis at the second division. Thus, by repressing the exit machinery at meiosis I, Cdc5-Spo13 ensures that cells undergo two divisions to produce haploid gametes.
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- Julie Rojas
- Laboratory of Chromosome BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
- Present address:
Laboratory of GeneticsUniversity of Wisconsin‐MadisonMadisonWIUSA
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- Laboratory of Chromosome BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
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- Laboratory of Chromosome BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
- Present address:
Institute of Biochemistry and BiophysicsPolish Academy of SciencesWarsawPoland
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- Laboratory of Chromosome BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
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- Laboratory of Chromosome BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
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- Laboratory of Chromosome BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
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- Laboratory of Chromosome BiologyMax Planck Institute of BiochemistryMartinsriedGermany
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Mishra NK, Shrinath P, Rao R, Shukla PK. Sex-Specific Whole-Transcriptome Analysis in the Cerebral Cortex of FAE Offspring. Cells 2023; 12:cells12020328. [PMID: 36672262 PMCID: PMC9856965 DOI: 10.3390/cells12020328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are associated with systemic inflammation and neurodevelopmental abnormalities. Several candidate genes were found to be associated with fetal alcohol exposure (FAE)-associated behaviors, but a sex-specific complete transcriptomic analysis was not performed at the adult stage. Recent studies have shown that they are regulated at the developmental stage. However, the sex-specific role of RNA in FAE offspring brain development and function has not been studied yet. Here, we carried out the first systematic RNA profiling by utilizing a high-throughput transcriptomic (RNA-seq) approach in response to FAE in the brain cortex of male and female offspring at adulthood (P60). Our RNA-seq data analysis suggests that the changes in RNA expression in response to FAE are marked sex-specific. We show that the genes Muc3a, Pttg1, Rec8, Clcnka, Capn11, and pnp2 exhibit significantly higher expression in the male offspring than in the female offspring at P60. FAE female mouse brain sequencing data also show an increased expression of Eno1, Tpm3, and Pcdhb2 compared to male offspring. We performed a pathway analysis using a commercial software package (Ingenuity Pathway Analysis). We found that the sex-specific top regulator genes (Rictor, Gaba, Fmri, Mlxipl) are highly associated with eIF2 (translation initiation), synaptogenesis (the formation of synapses between neurons in the nervous system), sirtuin (metabolic regulation), and estrogen receptor (involved in obesity, aging, and cancer) signaling. Taken together, our transcriptomic results demonstrate that FAE differentially alters RNA expression in the adult brain in a sex-specific manner.
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- Nitish K. Mishra
- Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
- Correspondence: (N.K.M.); (P.K.S.)
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- Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
- Correspondence: (N.K.M.); (P.K.S.)
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REC8 meiotic recombination protein (REC8) is a member of structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) protein partners, which play an important role in meiosis, anti-tumor, and sperm formation. As the adapter proteins of RLR signaling and cGAS-DNA signaling, the activity and stability of MAVS (also known as VISA, Cardif and IPS-1) and STING (also known as MITA) are critical for innate immunity. Here, we report that REC8 interacts with MAVS and STING, and inhibits their ubiquitination and subsequent degradation, thereby promoting innate antiviral signaling. REC8 is upregulated through the JAK-STAT signaling pathway under viral infection. Knockdown of REC8 impair the innate immune responses against VSV (Vesicular Stomatitis Virus), NDV (Newcastle disease virus) and HSV (herpes simplex virus). Mechanistically, under the infection of viruses, the SUMOylated REC8 is transferred from the nucleus to the cytoplasm and then interacts with MAVS and STING to inhibit their K48-linked ubiquitination triggered by RNF5. Moreover, REC8 promotes the recruitment of TBK1 to MAVS and STING. Thus, REC8 functions as a positive modulator of innate immunity. Our work highlights a previously undocumented role of meiosis-associated protein REC8 in regulating innate immunity. IMPORTANCE The innate immune response is crucial for the host to resist the invasion of viruses and other pathogens. STING and MAVS play a critical role in the innate immune response to DNA and RNA viral infection, respectively. In this study, REC8 promotes the innate immune response by targeting STING and MAVS. Notably, REC8 interacts with MAVS and STING in the cytoplasm and inhibits K48-linked ubiquitination of MAVS and STING triggered by RNF5, stabilizing MAVS and STING protein to promote innate immunity and gradually inhibiting viral infection. Our study provides a new insight for the study of antiviral innate immune.
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Chen X, Wang W, Liu X, Liu H, Sun H, Wang L, Yu J, Li J, Shi Y. Catalytic Subunit of Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2Ac) Influences the Meiosis Initiation During Spermatocyte Meiosis Prophase I. Reprod Sci 2022; 29:3201-3211. [PMID: 35041133 DOI: 10.1007/s43032-022-00843-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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As a serine/threonine phosphatase, protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) is essential in numerous physiological processes. By generating a catalytic subunit of PP2A (Ppp2ca) conditional knockout (CKO) in C57BL/6 J mice, we explored the possible mechanisms of azoospermia by focusing on meiosis initiation and spermatogenesis. The deficiency of Ppp2ca in germ cells conspicuously disturbed spermatogonial differentiation and led to pachynema arrest, accompanied by significant apoptosis in germ cells and defects in programmed double-strand break (DSB) repair. While the formation of XY body was normal, respectively. Ppp2ca-deficient spermatocytes exhibited an abnormal cohesion complex degradation of chromosome, probably contributing to cell death. Furthermore, transcriptomics analysis was conducted to prove several genes involved in spermatogenesis and exhibited transcriptional dysregulations in Ppp2ca-deficient testes. Our study demonstrates the irreplaceable role of PP2A in spermatogenesis and provides more evidences of azoospermia etiology.
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- Xia Chen
- Center of Reproduction, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China
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- Center of Reproduction, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China
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- Center of Reproduction, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China
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- Center of Reproduction, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China
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- Center of Reproduction, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China
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- Laboratory of Neurological Diseases, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China
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- Center of Reproduction, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Reproductive Medicine, Animal Core Facility, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, Jiangsu, China
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- Center of Reproduction, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital, Changzhou, 213003, Jiangsu, China.
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Nambu M, Kishikawa A, Yamada T, Ichikawa K, Kira Y, Itabashi Y, Honda A, Yamada K, Murakami H, Yamamoto A. Direct evaluation of cohesin-mediated sister kinetochore associations at meiosis I in fission yeast. J Cell Sci 2022; 135:jcs259102. [PMID: 34851403 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.259102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Kinetochores drive chromosome segregation by mediating chromosome interactions with the spindle. In higher eukaryotes, sister kinetochores are separately positioned on opposite sides of sister centromeres during mitosis, but associate with each other during meiosis I. Kinetochore association facilitates the attachment of sister chromatids to the same pole, enabling the segregation of homologous chromosomes toward opposite poles. In the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Rec8-containing meiotic cohesin is suggested to establish kinetochore associations by mediating cohesion of the centromere cores. However, cohesin-mediated kinetochore associations on intact chromosomes have never been demonstrated directly. In the present study, we describe a novel method for the direct evaluation of kinetochore associations on intact chromosomes in live S. pombe cells, and demonstrate that sister kinetochores and the centromere cores are positioned separately on mitotic chromosomes but associate with each other on meiosis I chromosomes. Furthermore, we demonstrate that kinetochore association depends on meiotic cohesin and the cohesin regulators Moa1 and Mrc1, and requires mating-pheromone signaling for its establishment. These results confirm cohesin-mediated kinetochore association and its regulatory mechanisms, along with the usefulness of the developed method for its analysis. This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
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- Masashi Nambu
- Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
- Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
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