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Grupp B, Gronemeyer T. A biochemical view on the septins, a less known component of the cytoskeleton. Biol Chem 2023; 404:1-13. [PMID: 36423333 DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2022-0263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The septins are a conserved family of guanine nucleotide binding proteins, often named the fourth component of the cytoskeleton. They self-assemble into non-polar filaments and further into higher ordered structures. Properly assembled septin structures are required for a wide range of indispensable intracellular processes such as cytokinesis, vesicular transport, polarity establishment and cellular adhesion. Septins belong structurally to the P-Loop NTPases. However, unlike the small GTPases like Ras, septins do not mediate signals to effectors through GTP binding and hydrolysis. The role of nucleotide binding and subsequent GTP hydrolysis by the septins is rather controversially debated. We compile here the structural features from the existing septin crystal- and cryo-EM structures regarding protofilament formation, inter-subunit interface architecture and nucleotide binding and hydrolysis. These findings are supplemented with a summary of available biochemical studies providing information regarding nucleotide binding and hydrolysis of fungal and mammalian septins.
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- Benjamin Grupp
- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Ulm University, James Franck Ring N27, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Ulm University, James Franck Ring N27, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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Desterke C, Gassama-Diagne A. Protein-protein interaction analysis highlights the role of septins in membrane enclosed lumen and mRNA processing. Adv Biol Regul 2019; 73:100635. [PMID: 31420262 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbior.2019.100635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Septins are a family of GTP-binding proteins that assemble into non-polar filaments which can be recruited to negatively charged membranes and serve as a scaffold to recruit cytosolic proteins and cytoskeletal elements such as microtubules and actin so that they can perform their important biological functions. Human septins consist of four groups, each with 13 members, and filaments formation usually involve members from each group in specific positions. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms that drive the binding of septins to membranes and its importance to their biological functions. Here we have built a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network around human septins and highlighted the connections with 170 partners. Functional enrichment by inference of the network of septins and their partners revealed their participation in functions consistent with some of the roles described for septins, including cell cycle, cell division and cell shape, but we also identified septin partners in these functions that had not previously been described. Interestingly, we identified important and multiple connections between septins and mRNA processing and their export from the nucleus. Analysis of the enrichment of gene ontology cellular components highlighted some important interactions between molecules involved in the spliceosome with septin 2 and septin 7 in particular. RNA splicing regulates gene expression, and through it, cell fate, development and physiology. Mutations in components of the in the splicing machinery is linked to several diseases including cancer, thus taken together, the different analyses presented here open new perspectives to elucidate the pathobiological role of septins.
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- INSERM, Unité 1193, Villejuif, F-94800, France; Université Paris-Sud, UMR-S 1193, Villejuif, F-94800, France.
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Septins are critical regulators of osteoclastic bone resorption. Sci Rep 2018; 8:13016. [PMID: 30158637 PMCID: PMC6115361 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-31159-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Septins are known to play key roles in supporting cytoskeletal stability, vesicular transport, endo-/exocytosis, stabilizing cellular membranes and forming diffusion barriers. Their function in mammalian cells is poorly investigated. The osteoclast offers an interesting tool to investigate septins because all cellular activities septins were reported to be involved in are critical for osteoclasts. However, the existence of septins in osteoclasts has not even been reported. Here we show that the SEPT9 gene and Septin 9 (SEPT9) protein are expressed and synthesized during differentiation of human osteoclasts. Pharmacological stabilization of septin filaments dose dependently inhibits bone resorption of human osteoclasts in vitro suggesting a role for septins in bone resorption. Attesting to this, conditional deletion of Sept9 in mice leads to elevated levels of trabecular bone and diminished femoral growth in vivo. Finally, systematic interrogation of the spatial organization of SEPT9 by confocal microscopy reveals that SEPT9 is closely associated to the structures known to be critical for osteoclast activity. We propose that septins in general and SEPT9 in particular play a previously unappreciated role in osteoclastic bone resorption.
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Häcker G. The role of septins in infections with vacuole-dwelling intracellular bacteria. Int J Med Microbiol 2017; 308:25-31. [PMID: 28784332 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2017.07.010] [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: 06/07/2017] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Septins are a relatively little understood group of GTPases that form large assemblies in cells from all eukaryotes other than plants. Septins were first identified in cell division but have also been implicated in microbial infections. Septins often associate with cytoskeletal proteins - most often described for filamentous (F-) actin - and are considered cytoskeletal components themselves. Septins have increasingly been found to partake in processes that are linked to intracellular membranes, from mitochondria to phagosomes, and evidence is accumulating that septins specifically bind to membranes. Since a number of microorganisms have specialized to live and grow inside membranous vacuoles in the cytosol of mammalian cells, this membrane-association of septins suggests that septins may also be involved in the membranous, vacuolar structures that develop around these microbes. However, data are limited on this issue: septins have been identified by proteome analysis on some microbe-bearing vacuoles, but more extensive experimental data are only available for infections with the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. In this review article I will discuss the available data and speculate about the mechanisms of recruitment and potential functions of septins for vacuole-dwelling microorganisms, which may be peculiar to Chlamydia or may pertain more generally to this class of microbes.
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- Georg Häcker
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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Helmprobst F, Lillesaar C, Stigloher C. Expression of sept3, sept5a and sept5b in the Developing and Adult Nervous System of the Zebrafish ( Danio rerio). Front Neuroanat 2017; 11:6. [PMID: 28261064 PMCID: PMC5313478 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2017.00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Septins are a highly conserved family of small GTPases that form cytoskeletal filaments. Their cellular functions, especially in the nervous system, still remain largely enigmatic, but there are accumulating lines of evidence that septins play important roles in neuronal physiology and pathology. In order to further dissect septin function in the nervous system a detailed temporal resolved analysis in the genetically well tractable model vertebrate zebrafish (Danio rerio) is crucially necessary. To close this knowledge gap we here provide a reference dataset describing the expression of selected septins (sept3, sept5a and sept5b) in the zebrafish central nervous system. Strikingly, proliferation zones are devoid of expression of all three septins investigated, suggesting that they have a role in post-mitotic neural cells. Our finding that three septins are mainly expressed in non-proliferative regions was further confirmed by double-stainings with a proliferative marker. Our RNA in situ hybridization (ISH) study, detecting sept3, sept5a and sept5b mRNAs, shows that all three septins are expressed in largely overlapping regions of the developing brain. However, the expression of sept5a is much more confined compared to sept3 and sept5b. In contrast, the expression of all the three analyzed septins is largely similar in the adult brain.
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- Frederik Helmprobst
- Biocenter, Division of Electron Microscopy, University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany
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- Biocenter, Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany
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- Biocenter, Division of Electron Microscopy, University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany
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Glomb O, Gronemeyer T. Septin Organization and Functions in Budding Yeast. Front Cell Dev Biol 2016; 4:123. [PMID: 27857941 PMCID: PMC5093138 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2016.00123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Accepted: 10/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The septins are a conserved family of GTP-binding proteins present in all eukaryotic cells except plants. They were originally discovered in the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that serves until today as an important model organism for septin research. In yeast, the septins assemble into a highly ordered array of filaments at the mother bud neck. The septins are regulators of spatial compartmentalization in yeast and act as key players in cytokinesis. This minireview summarizes the recent findings about structural features and cell biology of the yeast septins.
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- Oliver Glomb
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Ulm University Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Ulm University Ulm, Germany
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Ong K, Svitkina T, Bi E. Visualization of in vivo septin ultrastructures by platinum replica electron microscopy. Methods Cell Biol 2016; 136:73-97. [PMID: 27473904 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2016.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Septins are cytoskeletal proteins involved in diverse biological processes including cytokinesis, cell morphogenesis, motility, and ciliogenesis. Septins form various filamentous structures in vitro and in vivo, but the higher-order architecture of septin structures in vivo remains poorly defined. The best understood system in this respect is the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where septins form a ring structure that undergoes multiple stages of remodeling during the cell cycle. In this chapter, we describe a method for visualizing supramolecular septin structures in yeast at high spatial resolution using platinum replica electron microscopy. This approach can be applied to further understand the regulation of assembly and remodeling of septin higher-order structures, as well as the relationship between septin architecture and function.
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- K Ong
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Booth EA, Thorner J. A FRET-based method for monitoring septin polymerization and binding of septin-associated proteins. Methods Cell Biol 2016; 136:35-56. [PMID: 27473902 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2016.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Much about septin function has been inferred from in vivo studies using mainly genetic methods, and much of what we know about septin organization has been obtained through examination of static structures in vitro primarily by electron microscopy. Deeper mechanistic insight requires real-time analysis of the dynamics of the assembly of septin-based structures and how other proteins associate with them. We describe here a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based approach for measuring in vitro the rate and extent of filament formation from septin complexes, binding of other proteins to septin structures, and the apparent affinities of these interactions. FRET is particularly well suited for interrogating protein-protein interactions, especially on a rapid timescale; the spectral change provides an unambiguous indication of whether two elements within the system under study are associating and serves as a molecular-level "ruler" because it is very sensitive to the separation between the donor and acceptor fluorophores over biologically relevant distances (≤10nm). The necessary procedures involve generation of appropriate cysteine-less and single cysteine-containing septin variants, expression and purification of the heterooctameric complexes containing them, efficient labeling of the purified complexes with desired fluorophores, fluorimetric measurement of FRET, and appropriate safeguards and controls in data acquisition and analysis. Our methods can be used to interrogate the effects of buffer conditions, small molecules, and septin-binding proteins on septin filament assembly or stability; determine the effect of alternative septin subunits, mutational alterations, or posttranslational modifications on assembly; and, delineate the location of septin-binding proteins.
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- E A Booth
- University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
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Finnigan GC, Takagi J, Cho C, Thorner J. Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of Paralogous Terminal Septin Subunits Shs1 and Cdc11 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2015; 200:821-41. [PMID: 25971665 PMCID: PMC4512546 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.176495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 05/08/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Septins are a family of GTP-binding proteins considered to be cytoskeletal elements because they self-assemble into filaments and other higher-order structures in vivo. In budding yeast, septins establish a diffusion barrier at the bud neck between a mother and daughter cell, promote membrane curvature there, and serve as a scaffold to recruit other proteins to the site of cytokinesis. However, the mechanism by which any septin engages a partner protein has been unclear. The two most related and recently evolved subunits appear to be Cdc11 and Shs1, and the basic building blocks for assembling septin structures are hetero-octameric rods (Cdc11-Cdc12-Cdc3-Cdc10-Cdc10-Cdc3-Cdc12-Cdc11 and Shs1-Cdc12-Cdc3-Cdc10-Cdc10-Cdc3-Cdc12-Shs1). Loss of Cdc11 is not normally tolerated, whereas cells lacking Shs1 do not appear grossly abnormal. We established several different sensitized genetic backgrounds wherein Shs1 is indispensable, which allowed us to carry out the first comprehensive and detailed genetic analysis of Shs1 in vivo. Our analysis revealed several novel insights, including: (i) the sole portion of Shs1 essential for its function is a predicted coiled-coil-forming segment in its C-terminal extension (CTE); (ii) the CTE of Cdc11 shares this function; (iii) this role for the CTEs of Cdc11 and Shs1 is quite distinct from that of the CTEs of Cdc3 and Cdc12; and (iv) heterotypic Cdc11 and Shs1 junctions likely occur in vivo.
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- Gregory C Finnigan
- Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3202
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California 94158-2200
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- Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3202 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California 94158-2200 Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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The chromosomal passenger complex (CPC): from easy rider to the godfather of mitosis. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2013; 13:789-803. [PMID: 23175282 DOI: 10.1038/nrm3474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 616] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Successful cell division requires the precise and timely coordination of chromosomal, cytoskeletal and membrane trafficking events. These processes are regulated by the competing actions of protein kinases and phosphatases. Aurora B is one of the most intensively studied kinases. In conjunction with inner centromere protein (INCENP), borealin (also known as Dasra) and survivin it forms the chromosomal passenger complex (CPC). This complex targets to different locations at differing times during mitosis, where it regulates key mitotic events: correction of chromosome-microtubule attachment errors; activation of the spindle assembly checkpoint; and construction and regulation of the contractile apparatus that drives cytokinesis. Our growing understanding of the CPC has seen it develop from a mere passenger riding on the chromosomes to one of the main controllers of mitosis.
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Bi E, Park HO. Cell polarization and cytokinesis in budding yeast. Genetics 2012; 191:347-87. [PMID: 22701052 PMCID: PMC3374305 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.132886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2011] [Accepted: 11/04/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Asymmetric cell division, which includes cell polarization and cytokinesis, is essential for generating cell diversity during development. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae reproduces by asymmetric cell division, and has thus served as an attractive model for unraveling the general principles of eukaryotic cell polarization and cytokinesis. Polarity development requires G-protein signaling, cytoskeletal polarization, and exocytosis, whereas cytokinesis requires concerted actions of a contractile actomyosin ring and targeted membrane deposition. In this chapter, we discuss the mechanics and spatial control of polarity development and cytokinesis, emphasizing the key concepts, mechanisms, and emerging questions in the field.
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- Erfei Bi
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6058, USA.
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Garcia G, Bertin A, Li Z, Song Y, McMurray MA, Thorner J, Nogales E. Subunit-dependent modulation of septin assembly: budding yeast septin Shs1 promotes ring and gauze formation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 195:993-1004. [PMID: 22144691 PMCID: PMC3241732 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201107123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Substitution of specific terminal subunits within septin complexes and septin phosphorylation drive the formation of distinct higher-order septin assemblies in budding yeast. Septins are conserved guanosine triphosphate–binding cytoskeletal proteins involved in membrane remodeling. In budding yeast, five mitotic septins (Cdc3, Cdc10, Cdc11, Cdc12, and Shs1), which are essential for cytokinesis, transition during bud growth from a patch to a collar, which splits into two rings in cytokinesis and is disassembled before the next cell cycle. Cdc3, Cdc10, Cdc11, and Cdc12 form an apolar octameric rod with Cdc11 at each tip, which polymerizes into straight paired filaments. We show that Shs1 substitutes for Cdc11, resulting in octameric rods that do not polymerize into filaments but associate laterally, forming curved bundles that close into rings. In vivo, half of shs1Δ mutant cells exhibit incomplete collars and disrupted neck filaments. Importantly, different phosphomimetic mutations in Shs1 can either prevent ring formation or promote formation of a gauzelike meshwork. These results show that a single alternative terminal subunit is sufficient to confer a distinctive higher-order septin ultrastructure that can be further regulated by phosphorylation.
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- Galo Garcia
- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Hall PA, Russell SEH. Mammalian septins: dynamic heteromers with roles in cellular morphogenesis and compartmentalization. J Pathol 2011; 226:287-99. [PMID: 21990096 DOI: 10.1002/path.3024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2011] [Revised: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/03/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The septins are a family of GTP-binding proteins, evolutionarily conserved from yeast through to mammals, with roles in multiple core cellular functions. Here we provide an overview of our current knowledge of septin structure and function and focus mainly on mammalian septins, but gain much insight by drawing on knowledge of septins in other organisms. We describe their genomic and transcriptional complexity: a complexity manifest also in the diversity of scaffold structures that septins can form. Septin complexes can act to localize interacting proteins at specific intracellular locales and can also define membrane compartments by defining diffusion barriers. By such activities, septins can contribute to the definition of spatial asymmetry and cell polarity and we suggest a potential role in stem cell biology. Finally, we review the evidence that septins contribute to various disease states and argue that it is a breakdown in the tight regulation of their expression (particularly of individual isoforms), and also their inherent ability to oligomerize, which is pathogenic. Study of the perturbation of septin complex formation in disease will provide valuable insights into septin biology and will be a fertile ground for study.
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- Peter A Hall
- Department of Molecular Oncology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Peterson EA, Petty EM. Conquering the complex world of human septins: implications for health and disease. Clin Genet 2010; 77:511-24. [PMID: 20236126 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01392.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Septins are highly conserved filamentous proteins first characterized in budding yeast and subsequently identified in must eukaryotes. Septins can bind and hydrolyze GTP, which is intrinsically related to their formation of septin hexamers and functional protein interactions. The human septin family is composed of 14 loci, SEPT1-SEPT14, which encode dozens of different septin proteins. Their central GTPase and polybasic domain regions are highly conserved but they diverge in their N-terminus and/or C-terminus. The mechanism by which the different isoforms are generated is not yet well understood, but one can hypothesize that the use of different promoters and/or alternative splicing could give rise to these variants. Septins perform diverse cellular functions according to tissue expression and their interacting partners. Functions identified to date include cell division, chromosome segregation, protein scaffolding, cellular polarity, motility, membrane dynamics, vesicle trafficking, exocytosis, apoptosis, and DNA damage response. Their expression is tightly regulated to maintain proper filament assembly and normal cellular functions. Alterations of these proteins, by mutation or expression changes, have been associated with a variety of cancers and neurological diseases. The association of septins with cancer results from alterations of expression in solid tumors or translocations in leukemias [mixed lineage leukemia (MLL)]. Expression changes in septins have also been associated with neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, as well as retinopathies, hepatitis C, spermatogenesis and Listeria infection. Pathogenic mutations of SEPT9 were identified in the autosomal dominant neurological disorder hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA). Human septin research over the past decade has established their importance in cell biology and human disease. Further functional characterization of septins is crucial to our understanding of their possible diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic applications.
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- E A Peterson
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Characterization of a SEPT9 interacting protein, SEPT14, a novel testis-specific septin. Mamm Genome 2007; 18:796-807. [PMID: 17922164 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-007-9065-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2007] [Accepted: 08/21/2007] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Septins are a highly conserved family of GTP-binding cytoskeletal proteins implicated in multiple cellular functions, including membrane transport, apoptosis, cell polarity, cell cycle regulation, cytokinesis, and oncogenesis. Here we describe the characterization of a novel interacting partner of the septin family, initially cloned from a human testis expression library following yeast two-hybrid isolation to identify SEPT9 binding partners. Upon further genomic characterization and bioinformatics analyses it was determined that this novel septin-interacting partner was also a new member of the mammalian septin family, named SEPT14. SEPT14 maps to 7p11.2 in humans and includes a conserved GTPase domain and a predicted carboxy-terminus coiled-coil domain characteristic of other septins. Three potential translational start methionines were identified by 5' RACE-PCR encoding proteins of 432-, 427-, and 425-residue peptides, respectively. SEPT14 shares closest homology to SEPT10, a human dendritic septin, and limited homology to SEPT9 isoforms. SEPT14 colocalized with SEPT9 when coexpressed in cell lines, and epitope-tagged forms of these proteins coimmunoprecipitated. Moreover, SEPT14 was coimmunoprecipitated from rat testes using SEPT9 antibodies, and yeast two-hybrid analysis suggested SEPT14 interactions with nine additional septins. Multitissue Northern blotting showed testis-specific expression of a single 5.0-kb SEPT14 transcript. RT-PCR analysis revealed that SEPT14 was not detectable in normal or cancerous ovarian, breast, prostate, bladder, or kidney cell lines and was only faintly detected in fetal liver, tonsil, and thymus samples. Interestingly, SEPT14 was expressed in testis but not testicular cancer cell lines by RT-PCR, suggesting that further investigation of SEPT14 as a testis-specific tumor suppressor is necessary.
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Iwase M, Luo J, Bi E, Toh-e A. Shs1 plays separable roles in septin organization and cytokinesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2007; 177:215-29. [PMID: 17603111 PMCID: PMC2013704 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.073007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2007] [Accepted: 06/25/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, five septins (Cdc3, Cdc10, Cdc11, Cdc12, and Shs1/Sep7) form the septin ring at the bud neck during vegetative growth. We show here that disruption of SHS1 caused cold-sensitive growth in the W303 background, with cells arrested in chains, indicative of a cytokinesis defect. Surprisingly, the other four septins appeared to form an apparently normal septin ring in shs1Delta cells grown under the restrictive condition. We found that Myo1 and Iqg1, two components of the actomyosin contractile ring, and Cyk3, a component of the septum formation, were either delocalized or mislocalized in shs1Delta cells, suggesting that Shs1 plays supportive roles in cytokinesis. We also found that deletion of SHS1 enhanced or suppressed the septin defect in cdc10Delta and cdc11Delta cells, respectively, suggesting that Shs1 is involved in septin organization, exerting different effects on septin-ring assembly, depending on the composition of the septin subunits. Furthermore, we constructed an shs1-100c allele that lacks the coding sequence for the C-terminal 32 amino acids. This allele still displayed the genetic interactions with the septin mutants, but did not show cytokinesis defects as described above, suggesting that the roles of Shs1 in septin organization and cytokinesis are separable.
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- Masayuki Iwase
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Taniguchi M, Taoka M, Itakura M, Asada A, Saito T, Kinoshita M, Takahashi M, Isobe T, Hisanaga SI. Phosphorylation of adult type Sept5 (CDCrel-1) by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 inhibits interaction with syntaxin-1. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:7869-76. [PMID: 17224448 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m609457200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence implicates cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) in neuronal synaptic function. We searched for Cdk5 substrates in synaptosomal fractions prepared from mouse brains. Mass spectrometric analysis after two-dimensional SDS-PAGE identified several synaptic proteins phosphorylated by Cdk5-p35; one protein identified was Sept5 (CDCrel-1). Although septins were isolated originally as cell division-related proteins in yeast, Sept5 is expressed predominantly in neurons and is implicated in exocytosis. We confirmed that Sept5 is phosphorylated by Cdk5-p35 in vitro and identified Ser17 of adult type Sept5 (Sept5_v1) as a major phosphorylation site. We found that Ser17 of Sept5_v1 is phosphorylated in mouse brains. Coimmunoprecipitation from synaptosomal fractions and glutathione S-transferase-syntaxin-1A pulldown assays of Sept5_v1 expressed in COS-7 cells showed that phosphorylation of Sept5_v1 by Cdk5-p35 decreases the binding to syntaxin-1. These results indicate that the interaction of Sept5 with syntaxin-1 is regulated by the phosphorylation of Sept5_v1 at Ser17 by Cdk5-p35.
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- Makoto Taniguchi
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.
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Charras GT, Hu CK, Coughlin M, Mitchison TJ. Reassembly of contractile actin cortex in cell blebs. J Cell Biol 2006; 175:477-90. [PMID: 17088428 PMCID: PMC2064524 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200602085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 439] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2006] [Accepted: 10/06/2006] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Contractile actin cortex is involved in cell morphogenesis, movement, and cytokinesis, but its organization and assembly are poorly understood. During blebbing, the membrane detaches from the cortex and inflates. As expansion ceases, contractile cortex re-assembles under the membrane and drives bleb retraction. This cycle enabled us to measure the temporal sequence of protein recruitment to the membrane during cortex reassembly and to explore dependency relationships. Expanding blebs were devoid of actin, but proteins of the erythrocytic submembranous cytoskeleton were present. When expansion ceased, ezrin was recruited to the membrane first, followed by actin, actin-bundling proteins, and, finally, contractile proteins. Complete assembly of the contractile cortex, which was organized into a cagelike mesh of filaments, took approximately 30 s. Cytochalasin D blocked recruitment of actin and alpha-actinin, but had no effect on membrane association of ankyrin B and ezrin. Ezrin played no role in actin nucleation, but was essential for tethering the membrane to the cortex. The Rho pathway was important for cortex assembly in blebs.
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- Guillaume T Charras
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Moseley JB, Goode BL. The yeast actin cytoskeleton: from cellular function to biochemical mechanism. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2006; 70:605-45. [PMID: 16959963 PMCID: PMC1594590 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00013-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 287] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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All cells undergo rapid remodeling of their actin networks to regulate such critical processes as endocytosis, cytokinesis, cell polarity, and cell morphogenesis. These events are driven by the coordinated activities of a set of 20 to 30 highly conserved actin-associated proteins, in addition to many cell-specific actin-associated proteins and numerous upstream signaling molecules. The combined activities of these factors control with exquisite precision the spatial and temporal assembly of actin structures and ensure dynamic turnover of actin structures such that cells can rapidly alter their cytoskeletons in response to internal and external cues. One of the most exciting principles to emerge from the last decade of research on actin is that the assembly of architecturally diverse actin structures is governed by highly conserved machinery and mechanisms. With this realization, it has become apparent that pioneering efforts in budding yeast have contributed substantially to defining the universal mechanisms regulating actin dynamics in eukaryotes. In this review, we first describe the filamentous actin structures found in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (patches, cables, and rings) and their physiological functions, and then we discuss in detail the specific roles of actin-associated proteins and their biochemical mechanisms of action.
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- James B Moseley
- Department of Biology and The Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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Huang YW, Surka MC, Reynaud D, Pace-Asciak C, Trimble WS. GTP binding and hydrolysis kinetics of human septin 2. FEBS J 2006; 273:3248-60. [PMID: 16857012 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05333.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Septins are a family of conserved proteins that are essential for cytokinesis in a wide range of organisms including fungi, Drosophila and mammals. In budding yeast, where they were first discovered, they are thought to form a filamentous ring at the bridge between the mother and bud cells. What regulates the assembly and function of septins, however, has remained obscure. All septins share a highly conserved domain related to those found in small GTPases, and septins have been shown to bind and hydrolyze GTP, although the properties of this domain and the relationship between polymerization and GTP binding/hydrolysis is unclear. Here we show that human septin 2 is phosphorylated in vivo at Ser218 by casein kinase II. In addition, we show that recombinant septin 2 binds guanine nucleotides with a Kd of 0.28 microm for GTPgammaS and 1.75 microm for GDP. It has a slow exchange rate of 7 x 10(-5) s(-1) for GTPgammaS and 5 x 10(-4) s(-1) for GDP, and an apparent kcat value of 2.7 x 10(-4) s(-1), similar to those of the Ras superfamily of GTPases. Interestingly, the nucleotide binding affinity appears to be altered by phosphorylation at Ser218. Finally, we show that a single septin protein can form homotypic filaments in vitro, whether bound to GDP or GTP.
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- Yi-Wei Huang
- Program in Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Robinson DN, Cooley L. Stable intercellular bridges in development: the cytoskeleton lining the tunnel. Trends Cell Biol 2005; 6:474-9. [PMID: 15157506 DOI: 10.1016/0962-8924(96)84945-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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A wide variety of intercellular junctions that are involved with cell adhesion or signal transduction have been described in recent years. A widespread but less well-characterized type of intercellular junction is the stable intercellular bridge. Several organisms use stable intercellular bridges as cytoplasmic connections, probably to allow rapid transfer of information and organelles between cells. Here, the authors take a detailed look at the assembly of intercellular bridges called ring canals in the Drosophila germline and discuss how examination of mutants that disrupt Drosophila ovarian ring canal assembly indicates that these bridges are required for intercellular transport of cytoplasm.
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- D N Robinson
- Dept of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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Septins are an evolutionarily conserved group of GTP-binding and filament-forming proteins that belong to the large superclass of P-loop GTPases. While originally discovered in yeast as cell division cycle mutants with cytokinesis defects, they are now known to have diverse cellular roles which include polarity determination, cytoskeletal reorganization, membrane dynamics, vesicle trafficking, and exocytosis. Septin proteins form homo- and hetero-oligomeric polymers which can assemble into higher-order filaments. They are also known to interact with components of the cytoskeleton, ie actin and tubulin. The precise role of GTP binding is not clear but a current model suggests that it is associated with conformational changes which alter binding to other proteins. There are at least 12 human septin genes, and although information on expression patterns is limited, most undergo complex alternative splicing with some degree of tissue specificity. Nevertheless, an increasing body of data implicates the septin family in the pathogenesis of diverse disease states including neoplasia, neurodegenerative conditions, and infections. Here the known biochemical properties of mammalian septins are reviewed in the light of the data from yeast and other model organisms. The data implicating septins in human disease are considered and a model linking these data is proposed. It is posited that septins can act as regulatable scaffolds where the stoichiometry of septin associations, modifications, GTP status, and the interactions with other proteins allow the regulation of key cellular processes including polarity determination. Derangements of such septin scaffolds thus explain the role of septins in disease states.
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- Peter A Hall
- Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queens University Belfast, U Floor, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast BT9 7AB, UK
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Kim DS, Hubbard SL, Peraud A, Salhia B, Sakai K, Rutka JT. Analysis of mammalian septin expression in human malignant brain tumors. Neoplasia 2004; 6:168-78. [PMID: 15140406 PMCID: PMC1502092 DOI: 10.1593/neo.03310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Septins are a highly conserved subfamily of GTPases that play an important role in the process of cytokinesis. To increase our understanding of the expression and localization of the different mammalian septins in human brain tumors, we used antibodies against septins 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 11 in immunofluorescence and Western blot analyses of astrocytomas and medulloblastomas. We then characterized the expression and subcellular distribution of the SEPT2 protein in aphidicolin-synchronized U373 MG astrocytoma cells by immunofluorescence and fluorescence-activated cell sorter analysis. To determine the role of SEPT2 in astrocytoma cytokinesis, we inducibly expressed a dominant-negative (DN) SEPT2 mutant in U373 MG astrocytoma cells. We show variable levels and expression patterns of the different septins in brain tissue, brain tumor specimens, and human brain tumor cell lines. SEPT2 was abundantly expressed in all brain tumor samples and cell lines studied. SEPT3 was expressed in medulloblastoma specimens and cell lines, but not in astrocytoma specimens or cell lines. SEPT2 expression was cell cycle-related, with maximal levels in G2-M. Immunocytochemical analysis showed endogenous levels of the different septins within the perinuclear and peripheral cytoplasmic regions. In mitosis, SEPT2 was concentrated at the cleavage furrow. By immunocytochemistry and flow cytometry, we show that a DN SEPT2 mutant inhibits the completion of cell division and results in the accumulation of multinucleated cells. These results suggest that septins are variably expressed in human brain tumors. Stable expression of the DN SEPT2 mutant leads to a G2-M cell cycle block in astrocytoma cells.
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- Dong-Seok Kim
- The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumor Research Centre and Division of Neurosurgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Balasubramanian MK, Bi E, Glotzer M. Comparative Analysis of Cytokinesis in Budding Yeast, Fission Yeast and Animal Cells. Curr Biol 2004; 14:R806-18. [PMID: 15380095 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 248] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Cytokinesis is a temporally and spatially regulated process through which the cellular constituents of the mother cell are partitioned into two daughter cells, permitting an increase in cell number. When cytokinesis occurs in a polarized cell it can create daughters with distinct fates. In eukaryotes, cytokinesis is carried out by the coordinated action of a cortical actomyosin contractile ring and targeted membrane deposition. Recent use of model organisms with facile genetics and improved light-microscopy methods has led to the identification and functional characterization of many proteins involved in cytokinesis. To date, this analysis indicates that some of the basic components involved in cytokinesis are conserved from yeast to humans, although their organization into functional machinery that drives cytokinesis and the associated regulatory mechanisms bear species-specific features. Here, we briefly review the current status of knowledge of cytokinesis in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and animal cells, in an attempt to highlight both the common and the unique features. Although these organisms diverged from a common ancestor about a billion years ago, there are eukaryotes that are far more divergent. To evaluate the overall evolutionary conservation of cytokinesis, it will be necessary to include representatives of these divergent branches. Nevertheless, the three species discussed here provide substantial mechanistic diversity.
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Cytokinesis is the ultimate step of a cell cycle resulting in the generation of two progeny. Failure of correct cell division may be lethal for both, mother and daughter cells, and thus such a process must be tightly regulated with other events of the cell cycle. Differing solutions to the same problem have been developed in bacteria and plants while cytokinesis in animal and fungal cells is highly similar and requires a contractile ring containing actomyosin. Cytokinesis in fungi can be viewed as a three-stage process: (i) selection of a division site, (ii) orderly assembly of protein complexes, and finally (iii) dynamic events that lead to a constriction of the contractile ring and septum construction. Elaborate mechanisms known as the Mitotic Exit Network (MEN) and the Septation Initiation Network (SIN) have evolved to link these events, particularly the final steps of cytokinesis, with nuclear division. The purpose of this review was to discuss the latest developments in the fungal field and to describe the central known players required for key steps on the road to cell division. Differences in the cytokinesis of yeast-like fungi that result in complete cell separation in contrast to septation which leads to the compartmentalization of fungal hyphae are highlighted.
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- Andrea Walther
- Department of Microbiology, Hans-Knöll Institute, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Winzerlaer, Germany
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Müller WE, Krasko A, Le Pennec G, Steffen R, Wiens M, Ammar MSA, Müller IM, Schröder HC. Molecular mechanism of spicule formation in the demosponge Suberites domuncula: silicatein--collagen--myotrophin. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR AND SUBCELLULAR BIOLOGY 2003; 33:195-221. [PMID: 14518374 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-55486-5_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- Werner E Müller
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Abteilung Angewandte Molekularbiologie, Universität, Duesbergweg 6, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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Ventelä S, Toppari J, Parvinen M. Intercellular organelle traffic through cytoplasmic bridges in early spermatids of the rat: mechanisms of haploid gene product sharing. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:2768-80. [PMID: 12857863 PMCID: PMC165675 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-10-0647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Stable cytoplasmic bridges (or ring canals) connecting the clone of spermatids are assumed to facilitate the sharing of haploid gene products and synchronous development of the cells. We have visualized these cytoplasmic bridges under phase-contrast optics and recorded the sharing of cytoplasmic material between the spermatids by a digital time-lapse imaging system ex vivo. A multitude of small (ca. 0.5 microm) granules were seen to move continuously over the bridges, but only 28% of those entering the bridge were actually transported into other cell. The average speed of the granules decreased significantly during the passage. Immunocytochemistry revealed that some of the shared granules contained haploid cell-specific gene product TRA54. We also demonstrate the novel function for the Golgi complex in acrosome system formation by showing that TRA54 is processed in Golgi complex and is transported into acrosome system of neighboring spermatid. In addition, we propose an intercellular transport function for the male germ cell-specific organelle chromatoid body. This mRNA containing organelle, ca. 1.8 microm in diameter, was demonstrated to go over the cytoplasmic bridge from one spermatid to another. Microtubule inhibitors prevented all organelle movements through the bridges and caused a disintegration of the chromatoid body. This is the first direct demonstration of an organelle traffic through cytoplasmic bridges in mammalian spermatogenesis. Golgi-derived haploid gene products are shared between spermatids, and an active involvement of the chromatoid body in intercellular material transport between round spermatids is proposed.
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- Sami Ventelä
- Department of Anatomy, Turku Graduate School of Biomedical Science, University of Turku, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland.
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Krasko A, Schröder HC, Batel R, Grebenjuk VA, Steffen R, Müller IM, Müller WEG. Iron induces proliferation and morphogenesis in primmorphs from the marine sponge Suberites domuncula. DNA Cell Biol 2002; 21:67-80. [PMID: 11879581 DOI: 10.1089/10445490252810320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Dissociated cells from marine demosponges retain their proliferation capacity if they are allowed to form special aggregates, the primmorphs. On the basis of incorporation studies and septin gene expression, we show that Fe3+ ions are required for the proliferation of cells in primmorphs from Suberites domuncula. In parallel, Fe3+ induced the expression of ferritin and strongly stimulated the synthesis of spicules. This result is supported by the finding that the enzymatic activity of silicatein, converting organosilicon to silicic acid, depends on Fe3+. Moreover, the expression of a scavenger receptor molecule, possibly involved in the morphology of spicules, depends on the presence of Fe3+. We conclude that iron is an essential factor in proliferative and morphogenetic processes in primmorphs.
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- Anatoli Krasko
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Abteilung Angewandte Molekularbiologie, Universität, Mainz, Germany
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Peng XR, Jia Z, Zhang Y, Ware J, Trimble WS. The septin CDCrel-1 is dispensable for normal development and neurotransmitter release. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:378-87. [PMID: 11739749 PMCID: PMC134223 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.1.378-387.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Septins are GTPases required for the completion of cytokinesis in a variety of organisms, yet their role in this process is not known. Septins may have additional functions since the mammalian septin CDCrel-1 is predominantly expressed in the nervous system, a largely postmitotic tissue. While relatively little is known about the function of this protein, we have previously shown that it is involved in regulated secretion. In addition, the gene encoding this protein maps to a locus often deleted in velo-cardiofacial and DiGeorge syndromes, and CDCrel-1 has recently been shown to be a direct target of the E3 ubiquitin ligase activity of Parkin, a causative agent in autosomal recessive forms of Parkinson's disease. Here we show that CDCrel-1 expression rises at the time of synaptic maturation and that CDCrel-1 is present in a complex that includes the septins Nedd5 and CDC10. To investigate its function in the nervous system, we generated homozygotic CDCrel-1 null mice and showed that these mice appear normal with respect to synaptic properties and hippocampal neuron growth in vitro. Moreover, we found that while the expression of a number of synaptic proteins is not affected in the CDCrel-1 mutant mice, the expression of other septins is altered. Together, these data suggest that CDCrel-1 is not essential for neuronal development or function, and that changes in expression of other septins may account for its functional redundancy.
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- Xiao-Rong Peng
- Programmes in Cell Biology. Brain and Behavior, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Bi E. Cytokinesis in budding yeast: the relationship between actomyosin ring function and septum formation. Cell Struct Funct 2001; 26:529-37. [PMID: 11942606 DOI: 10.1247/csf.26.529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Cytokinesis in budding yeast is accomplished by the concerted action of actomyosin ring function and septum formation. The actomyosin ring is not essential for cell viability, but it is required for efficient cell division. Deletion of the actomyosin ring results in abnormal septum formation, and a delay in cytokinesis and cell separation. In contrast, septum formation is essential for cell viability. Block of septum formation prevents the contraction, but not the formation of the actomyosin ring. Here we review and provide additional evidence that defines the functional and molecular relationship between actomyosin ring function and septum formation.
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- E Bi
- Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104-6058, USA.
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Beites CL, Peng XR, Trimble WS. Expression and analysis of properties of septin CDCrel-1 in exocytosis. Methods Enzymol 2001; 329:499-510. [PMID: 11210570 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(01)29111-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- C L Beites
- Programme in Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8
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Momany M, Zhao J, Lindsey R, Westfall PJ. Characterization of the Aspergillus nidulans septin (asp) gene family. Genetics 2001; 157:969-77. [PMID: 11238387 PMCID: PMC1461549 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/157.3.969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Members of the septin gene family are involved in cytokinesis and the organization of new growth in organisms as diverse as yeast, fruit fly, worm, mouse, and human. Five septin genes have been cloned and sequenced from the model filamentous fungus A. nidulans. As expected, the A. nidulans septins contain the highly conserved GTP binding and coiled-coil domains seen in other septins. On the basis of hybridization of clones to a chromosome-specific library and correlation with an A. nidulans physical map, the septins are not clustered but are scattered throughout the genome. In phylogenetic analysis most fungal septins could be grouped with one of the prototypical S. cerevisiae septins, Cdc3, Cdc10, Cdc11, and Cdc12. Intron-exon structure was conserved within septin classes. The results of this study suggest that most fungal septins belong to one of four orthologous classes.
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- M Momany
- Department of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA.
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Manandhar G, Moreno RD, Simerly C, Toshimori K, Schatten G. Contractile apparatus of the normal and abortive cytokinetic cells during mouse male meiosis. J Cell Sci 2000; 113 Pt 23:4275-86. [PMID: 11069772 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.113.23.4275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mouse male meiotic cytokinesis was studied using immunofluorescent probes against various elements of cytokinetic apparatus and electron microscopy. In normal mice, some spermatocytes fail to undergo cytokinesis after meiotic I or II nuclear divisions, forming syncytial secondary spermatocytes and spermatids. Abnormal cytokinetic cells develop sparse and dispersed midzone spindles during the early stage. However, during late stages, single and compact midzone spindles are formed as in normal cells, but localize asymmetrically and attach to the cortex. Myosin and f-actin were observed in the midzone spindle and midbody regions of normally cleaving cells as well as in those cells that failed to develop a cytokinetic furrow, implying that cytokinetic failure is unlikely to be due to defect in myosin or actin assembly. Depolymerization of microtubules by nocodazole resulted in the loss of the midbody-associated f-actin and myosin. These observations suggest that actin-myosin localization in the midbody could be a microtubule-dependent process that may not play a direct role in cytokinetic furrowing. Anti-centrin antibody labels the putative centrioles while anti-(gamma)-tubulin antibody labels the minus-ends of the midzone spindles of late-stage normal and abnormal cytokinetic cells, suggesting that the centrosome and midzone spindle nucleation in abnormal cytokinetic cells is not different from those of normally cleaving cells. Possible use of mouse male meiotic cells as a model system to study cytokinesis has been discussed.
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- G Manandhar
- Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Cell & Developmental Biology, Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Oregon Health Sciences University, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA
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Oegema K, Savoian MS, Mitchison TJ, Field CM. Functional analysis of a human homologue of the Drosophila actin binding protein anillin suggests a role in cytokinesis. J Cell Biol 2000; 150:539-52. [PMID: 10931866 PMCID: PMC2175195 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.150.3.539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 237] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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We have characterized a human homologue of anillin, a Drosophila actin binding protein. Like Drosophila anillin, the human protein localizes to the nucleus during interphase, the cortex following nuclear envelope breakdown, and the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis. Anillin also localizes to ectopic cleavage furrows generated between two spindles in fused PtK(1) cells. Microinjection of antianillin antibodies slows cleavage, leading to furrow regression and the generation of multinucleate cells. GFP fusions that contain the COOH-terminal 197 amino acids of anillin, which includes a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain, form ectopic cortical foci during interphase. The septin Hcdc10 localizes to these ectopic foci, whereas myosin II and actin do not, suggesting that anillin interacts with the septins at the cortex. Robust cleavage furrow localization requires both this COOH-terminal domain and additional NH(2)-terminal sequences corresponding to an actin binding domain defined by in vitro cosedimentation assays. Endogenous anillin and Hcdc10 colocalize to punctate foci associated with actin cables throughout mitosis and the accumulation of both proteins at the cell equator requires filamentous actin. These results indicate that anillin is a conserved cleavage furrow component important for cytokinesis. Interactions with at least two other furrow proteins, actin and the septins, likely contribute to anillin function.
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- K Oegema
- Cell Biology Program, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany D-69117, USA.
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Xie H, Surka M, Howard J, Trimble WS. Characterization of the mammalian septin H5: distinct patterns of cytoskeletal and membrane association from other septin proteins. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 2000; 43:52-62. [PMID: 10340703 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0169(1999)43:1<52::aid-cm6>3.0.co;2-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The mechanisms controlling cytokinesis during yeast budding and animal cell fission appear quite different, yet both require members of the septin protein family. Mammalian homologs of this novel family of GTPases have been identified but little is known about their properties or functions. Using an antibody specific for the mammalian septin H5, we show that this protein is expressed at distinct levels in a variety of tissues. Tissue expression levels in different tissues did not coincide with those of the only previously characterized mammalian septin Nedd5. H5, like Nedd5, localizes to the cleavage furrow in mitotic fibroblast cells but in non-mitotic cells these proteins associate with actin filaments in different ways. Nedd5 predominantly localizes with stress fibers, but only associates with central portions of the microfilament bundles. In contrast, H5 associates with the entire length of the stress fibers and the cortical actin network. Conditions that disrupt the actin cytoskeleton also disrupt the filamentous patterns of both Nedd5 and H5, resulting in a punctate cytoplasmic pattern. Cell fractionation revealed that H5 co-fractionated with actin, while Nedd5 was predominantly restricted to the membrane fraction. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments revealed that although H5 will co-precipitate with Nedd5, the precipitation is not quantitative. Taken together, these results not only show that H5 behaves like a septin, but also demonstrate that individual septin proteins have distinct properties, suggesting that they may play different roles in cytokinesis and in other stages of the cell cycle.
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- H Xie
- The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Subcellular asymmetry, cell polarity, is fundamental to the diverse specialized functions of eukaryotic cells. In yeast, cell polarization is essential to division and mating. As a result, this highly accessible experimental system serves as a paradigm for deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of polarity. Beyond yeast, cell polarity is essential to the partitioning of cell fate in embryonic development, the generation of axons and their guidance during neuronal development, and the intimate communication between lymphocytes within the immune system. The polarization of yeast cells shares many features with that of these more complex examples, including regulation by both intrinsic and extrinsic cues, conserved regulatory molecules such as Cdc42 GTPase, and asymmetry of the cytoskeleton as its centerpiece. This review summarizes the molecular pathways governing the generation of cell polarity in yeast.
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- J Chant
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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Zhang J, Kong C, Xie H, McPherson PS, Grinstein S, Trimble WS. Phosphatidylinositol polyphosphate binding to the mammalian septin H5 is modulated by GTP. Curr Biol 1999; 9:1458-67. [PMID: 10607590 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)80115-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Septins are members of a conserved family of GTPases found in organisms as diverse as budding yeast and mammals. In budding yeast, septins form hetero-oligomeric filaments that lie adjacent to the membrane at the mother-bud neck, whereas in mammals, they concentrate at the cleavage furrow of mitotic cells; in both cases, septins provide a required function for cytokinesis. What directs the location and determines the stability of septin filaments, however, remains unknown. RESULTS Here we show that the mammalian septin H5 is associated with the plasma membrane and specifically binds the phospholipids phosphatidylinositol 4, 5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(4,5)P(2)) and phosphatidylinositol 3,4, 5-trisphosphate (PtdIns(3,4,5)P(3)). Deletion analysis revealed that this binding occurs at a site rich in basic residues that is conserved in most septins and is located adjacent to the GTP-binding motif. Phosphoinositide binding was inhibited by mutations within this motif and was also blocked by agents known to associate with PtdInsP(2) or by a peptide corresponding to the predicted PtdInsP(2)-binding sequence of H5. GTP binding and hydrolysis by H5 significantly reduced its PtdInsP(2)-binding capability. Treatment of cells with agents that occluded, dephosphorylated or degraded PtdInsP(2) altered the appearance and localization of H5. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that the interaction of septins with PtdInsP(2) might be an important cellular mechanism for the spatial and temporal control of septin accumulation.
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- J Zhang
- Program in Cell Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada
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Kramerova IA, Kramerov AA. Mucinoprotein is a universal constituent of stable intercellular bridges in Drosophila melanogaster germ line and somatic cells. Dev Dyn 1999; 216:349-60. [PMID: 10633855 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0177(199912)216:4/5<349::aid-dvdy4>3.0.co;2-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Intercellular bridges formed by incomplete cytokinesis may be important in a variety of processes, including synchronization of mitotic and meiotic divisions in animal cells. Using specific antibodies against a mucin-type glycoprotein (Kramerov et al. [1996] FEBS Lett. 378:213-218) from Drosophila melanogaster cultured embryonic cells, we showed that this glycoprotein is located in all cytoplasmic bridges found in various germline and somatic tissues. In the ovary, immunostaining of ring canals connecting germ cells can be detected in the very early stages at the germarium region 1 where first gonial divisions take place, and the immunostaining appears to persist through late stages when transport of cytoplasm from nurse cells to a growing oocyte occurs. Each ring canal is made up of an outer and an inner rim. Mucin glycoprotein appears to be one of the first proteins localized to the outer rim, which is a derivative of the arrested cleavage furrow. The known ring canal proteins, phosphotyrosine-containing protein(s), F-actin, hts- and kelch proteins, are localized to the inner rim at a later developmental time. Similarly, mucin glycoprotein is recruited early to ring canals connecting mitotic primary spermatocytes in both larval and adult testes. Mucin glycoprotein was found to be present in intercellular bridges (small ring canals) in somatic cells, including follicular epithelium in ovary and imaginal disc cells. Intercellular bridges were observed for the first time in a subset of cells in the larval brain. Thus, mucin glycoprotein is the only protein hitherto found in all known types of stable intercellular bridges and may be an important constituent of a backbone needed for assembly and preservation of this particular type of cell-cell contact.
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- I A Kramerova
- Department of Animal Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Kikyo M, Tanaka K, Kamei T, Ozaki K, Fujiwara T, Inoue E, Takita Y, Ohya Y, Takai Y. An FH domain-containing Bnr1p is a multifunctional protein interacting with a variety of cytoskeletal proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Oncogene 1999; 18:7046-54. [PMID: 10597305 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1203184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Proteins containing formin homology domains, FH1 and FH2, are involved in cytokinesis or establishment of cell polarity in a variety of organisms. Bni1p and Bnr1p are FH proteins and potential targets of the Rho family small GTP-binding proteins in S. cerevisiae. We have shown that Bnr1p is localized at the bud neck to interact with Hof1p, involved in cytokinesis. We report here that the overexpression of BNR1 causes a cytokinesis deficiency which is similar to the phenotypes of the septin mutants, including cdc3, cdc10, cdc11, and cdc12. The region required for the septin mutant phenotypes was mapped to Bnr1p (35-500), which coincided with the region required for the bud-neck localization. To further isolate a gene interacting with BNI1 or BNR1, a multicopy suppressor of the bni1 bnr1 mutant was isolated. This gene encoded Smy1p, a kinesin-related protein. Bnr1p, but not Bni1p, directly interacted with the C-terminal region of Smy1p. The Smy1p-interacting region of Bnr1p was mapped to a region containing the FH2 domain. Bnr1p also directly interacted with Bud6p, a novel actin-binding protein. Bnr1p is thus a multifunctional protein which interacts with the septin system, a microtubule-dependent motor protein, and the actin system, to regulate cytoskeletal functions in S. cerevisiae.
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- M Kikyo
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine/Faculty of Medicine, Suita, Japan
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Septins are a family of conserved proteins that have been implicated in a variety of cellular functions involving specialized regions of the cell cortex and changes in cell shape. The biochemistry and localization of septins suggest that they form a novel cytoskeletal system or that they function as scaffolds for the assembly of signalling complexes. This article discusses septin biochemistry and septin-interacting proteins, focusing on the missing link between the structure and biochemical properties of septin proteins, and on how they function at a molecular level in processes such as cytokinesis and yeast budding.
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- C M Field
- Dept of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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The interphase cells of the hypotrich ciliate Paraurostyla weissei possess a complex fibrillar system surrounding basal bodies in the compound ciliary assemblages, cirri and membranelles. During replacement of the ciliature at cell division, transient filaments precede and accompany the development of ciliary primordia and participate in the formation of the fission furrow. Both fibrillar systems are recognized by monoclonal antibody FXXXIX 12G9. We studied regeneration of cellular fragments after transection employing the mAb 12G9 and found a new cytoskeletal structure involved in healing of the excisional wound. The healing filament is formed at the wound edge, distally and in connection with the bases of cirri closest to the wound. It is visible 5 min after transection. Concomitant with development of new ciliary primordia, the healing filament shrinks and finally disappears together with other transient fibers formed in this process. Ultrastructural analysis of immunolabeled regenerating cells revealed that structures recognized by mAb 12G9 contain fine filaments whose packing and arrangement depends on accompanying cytoplasmic elements and the developmental status of a fragment. Assembly of the healing fiber does not depend on microtubules and microfilaments since it develops in cellular fragments exposed to cold, nocodazole, and Cytochalasin D. On Western blots of whole cell and cytoskeletal extracts of P. weissei the 12G9 antibody identified one protein band whose molecular weight corresponds to 60 kDa.
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- M Jerka-Dziadosz
- Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland.
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Beites CL, Xie H, Bowser R, Trimble WS. The septin CDCrel-1 binds syntaxin and inhibits exocytosis. Nat Neurosci 1999; 2:434-9. [PMID: 10321247 DOI: 10.1038/8100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 284] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Septins are GTPases required for the completion of cytokinesis in diverse organisms, yet their roles in cytokinesis or other cellular processes remain unknown. Here we describe studies of a newly identified septin, CDCrel-1, which is predominantly expressed in the nervous system. This protein was associated with membrane fractions, and a significant fraction of the protein copurified and coprecipitated with synaptic vesicles. In detergent extracts, CDCrel-1 and another septin, Nedd5, immunoprecipitated with the SNARE protein syntaxin by directly binding to syntaxin via the SNARE interaction domain. Transfection of HIT-T15 cells with wild-type CDCrel-1 inhibited secretion, whereas GTPase dominant-negative mutants enhanced secretion. These data suggest that septins may regulate vesicle dynamics through interactions with syntaxin.
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- C L Beites
- Program in Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Eukaryotic cells respond to intracellular and extracellular cues to direct asymmetric cell growth and division. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae undergoes polarized growth at several times during budding and mating and is a useful model organism for studying asymmetric growth and division. In recent years, many regulatory and cytoskeletal components important for directing and executing growth have been identified, and molecular mechanisms have been elucidated in yeast. Key signaling pathways that regulate polarization during the cell cycle and mating response have been described. Since many of the components important for polarized cell growth are conserved in other organisms, the basic mechanisms mediating polarized cell growth are likely to be universal among eukaryotes.
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- K Madden
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8103, USA
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Carroll CW, Altman R, Schieltz D, Yates JR, Kellogg D. The septins are required for the mitosis-specific activation of the Gin4 kinase. J Cell Biol 1998; 143:709-17. [PMID: 9813092 PMCID: PMC2148151 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.3.709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/1998] [Revised: 08/28/1998] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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In budding yeast, a protein kinase called Gin4 is specifically activated during mitosis and functions in a pathway initiated by the Clb2 cyclin to control bud growth. We have used genetics and biochemistry to identify additional proteins that function with Gin4 in this pathway, and both of these approaches have identified members of the septin family. Loss of septin function produces a phenotype that is very similar to the phenotype caused by loss of Gin4 function, and the septins are required early in mitosis to activate Gin4 kinase activity. Furthermore, septin mutants display a prolonged mitotic delay at the short spindle stage, consistent with a role for the septins in the control of mitotic events. Members of the septin family bind directly to Gin4, demonstrating that the functions of Gin4 and the septins must be closely linked within the cell. These results demonstrate that the septins in budding yeast play an integral role in the mitosis-specific regulation of the Gin4 kinase and that they carry out functions early in mitosis.
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- C W Carroll
- Department of Biology, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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Mino A, Tanaka K, Kamei T, Umikawa M, Fujiwara T, Takai Y. Shs1p: a novel member of septin that interacts with spa2p, involved in polarized growth in saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 251:732-6. [PMID: 9790978 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The Rho family small G proteins regulate various cell functions including cytokinesis. We have shown that Bni1p, a potential target of Rho1p, interacts with Spa2p and that Spa2p is required for the localization of Bni1p at the growth sites in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We isolated here a novel member of the septin family, implicated in cytokinesis, as a Spa2p-binding protein by the yeast two-hybrid method. We named this gene SHS1 (Seventh Homolog of Septin). The shs1 mutant cells showed cytokinesis deficiency and Shs1p was localized at the bud neck in budded cells. The Spa2p-Shs1p interactions may play an important role in cytokinesis.
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- A Mino
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, 565-0871, Japan
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Kamei T, Tanaka K, Hihara T, Umikawa M, Imamura H, Kikyo M, Ozaki K, Takai Y. Interaction of Bnr1p with a novel Src homology 3 domain-containing Hof1p. Implication in cytokinesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:28341-5. [PMID: 9774458 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.43.28341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Proteins containing the formin homology (FH) domains FH1 and FH2 are involved in cytokinesis or establishment of cell polarity in a variety of organisms. We have shown that the FH proteins Bni1p and Bnr1p are potential targets of the Rho family small GTP-binding proteins and bind to an actin-binding protein, profilin, at their proline-rich FH1 domains to regulate reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We found here that a novel Src homology 3 (SH3) domain-containing protein, encoded by YMR032w, interacted with Bnr1p in a GTP-Rho4p-dependent manner through the FH1 domain of Bnr1p and the SH3 domain of Ymr032wp. Ymr032wp weakly bound to Bni1p. Ymr032wp was homologous to cdc15p, which is involved in cytokinesis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and we named this gene HOF1 (homolog of cdc 15). Both Bnr1p and Hof1p were localized at the bud neck, and both the bnr1 and hof1 mutations showed synthetic lethal interactions with the bni1 mutation. The hof1 mutant cells showed phenotypes similar to those of the septin mutants, indicating that HOF1 is involved in cytokinesis. These results indicate that Bnr1p directly interacts with Hof1p as well as with profilin to regulate cytoskeletal functions in S. cerevisiae.
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- T Kamei
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, Japan
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Oegema K, Desai A, Wong ML, Mitchison TJ, Field CM. Purification and assay of a septin complex from Drosophila embryos. Methods Enzymol 1998; 298:279-95. [PMID: 9751888 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(98)98025-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- K Oegema
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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Bi E, Maddox P, Lew DJ, Salmon ED, McMillan JN, Yeh E, Pringle JR. Involvement of an actomyosin contractile ring in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cytokinesis. J Cell Biol 1998; 142:1301-12. [PMID: 9732290 PMCID: PMC2149343 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.142.5.1301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 343] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/1998] [Revised: 07/30/1998] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the mother cell and bud are connected by a narrow neck. The mechanism by which this neck is closed during cytokinesis has been unclear. Here we report on the role of a contractile actomyosin ring in this process. Myo1p (the only type II myosin in S. cerevisiae) forms a ring at the presumptive bud site shortly before bud emergence. Myo1p ring formation depends on the septins but not on F-actin, and preexisting Myo1p rings are stable when F-actin is depolymerized. The Myo1p ring remains in the mother-bud neck until the end of anaphase, when a ring of F-actin forms in association with it. The actomyosin ring then contracts to a point and disappears. In the absence of F-actin, the Myo1p ring does not contract. After ring contraction, cortical actin patches congregate at the mother-bud neck, and septum formation and cell separation rapidly ensue. Strains deleted for MYO1 are viable; they fail to form the actin ring but show apparently normal congregation of actin patches at the neck. Some myo1Delta strains divide nearly as efficiently as wild type; other myo1Delta strains divide less efficiently, but it is unclear whether the primary defect is in cytokinesis, septum formation, or cell separation. Even cells lacking F-actin can divide, although in this case division is considerably delayed. Thus, the contractile actomyosin ring is not essential for cytokinesis in S. cerevisiae. In its absence, cytokinesis can still be completed by a process (possibly localized cell-wall synthesis leading to septum formation) that appears to require septin function and to be facilitated by F-actin.
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- E Bi
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280, USA
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Hsu SC, Hazuka CD, Roth R, Foletti DL, Heuser J, Scheller RH. Subunit composition, protein interactions, and structures of the mammalian brain sec6/8 complex and septin filaments. Neuron 1998; 20:1111-22. [PMID: 9655500 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80493-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 275] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Both the sec6/8 complex and septin filaments have been implicated in directing vesicles and proteins to sites of active membrane addition in yeast. The rat brain sec6/8 complex coimmunoprecipitates with a filament composed of four mammalian septins, suggesting an interaction between these complexes. One of the septins, CDC10, displays broad subcellular and tissue distributions and is found in postmitotic neurons as well as dividing cells. Electron microscopic studies showed that the purified rat brain septins form filaments of 8.25 nm in diameter; the lengths of the filaments are multiples of 25 nm. Glutaraldehyde-fixed rat brain sec6/8 complex adopts a conformation resembling the letter "T" or "Y". The sec6/8 and septin complexes likely play an important role in trafficking vesicles and organizing proteins at the plasma membrane of neurons.
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- S C Hsu
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA
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Regulation of cell shape is a poorly understood yet central issue in cell biology. Recent experiments indicate that FH proteins link cellular signalling pathways to changes in cell shape. Members of the FH protein family play essential roles in cytokinesis and in driving alterations in cell polarity. This review discusses the structure and function of these proteins and examines the evidence that they interact specifically with Rho GTPases and profilin to organize the actin-based cytoskeleton.
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- S Wasserman
- Dept of Molecular Biology and Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9148, USA.
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