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van Dop M, Fiedler M, Mutte S, de Keijzer J, Olijslager L, Albrecht C, Liao CY, Janson ME, Bienz M, Weijers D. DIX Domain Polymerization Drives Assembly of Plant Cell Polarity Complexes. Cell 2020; 180:427-439.e12. [PMID: 32004461 PMCID: PMC7042713 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2019] [Revised: 10/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cell polarity is fundamental for tissue morphogenesis in multicellular organisms. Plants and animals evolved multicellularity independently, and it is unknown whether their polarity systems are derived from a single-celled ancestor. Planar polarity in animals is conferred by Wnt signaling, an ancient signaling pathway transduced by Dishevelled, which assembles signalosomes by dynamic head-to-tail DIX domain polymerization. In contrast, polarity-determining pathways in plants are elusive. We recently discovered Arabidopsis SOSEKI proteins, which exhibit polar localization throughout development. Here, we identify SOSEKI as ancient polar proteins across land plants. Concentration-dependent polymerization via a bona fide DIX domain allows these to recruit ANGUSTIFOLIA to polar sites, similar to the polymerization-dependent recruitment of signaling effectors by Dishevelled. Cross-kingdom domain swaps reveal functional equivalence of animal and plant DIX domains. We trace DIX domains to unicellular eukaryotes and thus show that DIX-dependent polymerization is an ancient mechanism conserved between kingdoms and central to polarity proteins. SOSEKI proteins are deeply conserved polar proteins in land plants A DIX domain mediates polymerization and polarization of SOSEKI proteins SOSEKI polymerization allows polar recruitment of an effector protein DIX-dependent polymerization is shared between animal and plant polarity proteins
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- Maritza van Dop
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
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Loiodice I, Janson ME, Tavormina P, Schaub S, Bhatt D, Cochran R, Czupryna J, Fu C, Tran PT. Quantifying Tubulin Concentration and Microtubule Number Throughout the Fission Yeast Cell Cycle. Biomolecules 2019; 9:biom9030086. [PMID: 30836700 PMCID: PMC6468777 DOI: 10.3390/biom9030086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe serves as a good genetic model organism for the molecular dissection of the microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton. However, analysis of the number and distribution of individual MTs throughout the cell cycle, particularly during mitosis, in living cells is still lacking, making quantitative modelling imprecise. We use quantitative fluorescent imaging and analysis to measure the changes in tubulin concentration and MT number and distribution throughout the cell cycle at a single MT resolution in living cells. In the wild-type cell, both mother and daughter spindle pole body (SPB) nucleate a maximum of 23 ± 6 MTs at the onset of mitosis, which decreases to a minimum of 4 ± 1 MTs at spindle break down. Interphase MT bundles, astral MT bundles, and the post anaphase array (PAA) microtubules are composed primarily of 1 ± 1 individual MT along their lengths. We measure the cellular concentration of αβ-tubulin subunits to be ~5 µM throughout the cell cycle, of which one-third is in polymer form during interphase and one-quarter is in polymer form during mitosis. This analysis provides a definitive characterization of αβ-tubulin concentration and MT number and distribution in fission yeast and establishes a foundation for future quantitative comparison of mutants defective in MTs.
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- Isabelle Loiodice
- Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS, UMR 144, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
- Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS, UMR 144, F-75005 Paris, France.
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Tang H, de Keijzer J, Overdijk EJR, Sweep E, Steentjes M, Vermeer JEM, Janson ME, Ketelaar T. Exocyst subunit Sec6 is positioned by microtubule overlaps in the moss phragmoplast prior to cell plate membrane arrival. J Cell Sci 2019; 132:jcs222430. [PMID: 30635445 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.222430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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During plant cytokinesis a radially expanding membrane-enclosed cell plate is formed from fusing vesicles that compartmentalizes the cell in two. How fusion is spatially restricted to the site of cell plate formation is unknown. Aggregation of cell-plate membrane starts near regions of microtubule overlap within the bipolar phragmoplast apparatus of the moss Physcomitrella patens Since vesicle fusion generally requires coordination of vesicle tethering and subsequent fusion activity, we analyzed the subcellular localization of several subunits of the exocyst, a tethering complex active during plant cytokinesis. We found that the exocyst complex subunit Sec6 but not the Sec3 or Sec5 subunits localized to microtubule overlap regions in advance of cell plate construction in moss. Moreover, Sec6 exhibited a conserved physical interaction with an ortholog of the Sec1/Munc18 protein KEULE, an important regulator for cell-plate membrane vesicle fusion in Arabidopsis Recruitment of the P. patens protein KEULE and vesicles to the early cell plate was delayed upon Sec6 gene silencing. Our findings, thus, suggest that vesicle-vesicle fusion is, in part, enabled by a pool of exocyst subunits at microtubule overlaps, which is recruited independently of vesicle delivery.
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- Han Tang
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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de Keijzer J, Kieft H, Ketelaar T, Goshima G, Janson ME. Shortening of Microtubule Overlap Regions Defines Membrane Delivery Sites during Plant Cytokinesis. Curr Biol 2017; 27:514-520. [PMID: 28132815 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2016] [Revised: 11/11/2016] [Accepted: 12/20/2016] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Different from animal cells that divide by constriction of the cortex inward, cells of land plants divide by initiating a new cell-wall segment from their center. For this, a disk-shaped, membrane-enclosed precursor termed the cell plate is formed that radially expands toward the parental cell wall [1-3]. The synthesis of the plate starts with the fusion of vesicles into a tubulo-vesicular network [4-6]. Vesicles are putatively delivered to the division plane by transport along microtubules of the bipolar phragmoplast network that guides plate assembly [7-9]. How vesicle immobilization and fusion are then locally triggered is unclear. In general, a framework for how the cytoskeleton spatially defines cell-plate formation is lacking. Here we show that membranous material for cell-plate formation initially accumulates along regions of microtubule overlap in the phragmoplast of the moss Physcomitrella patens. Kinesin-4-mediated shortening of these overlaps at the onset of cytokinesis proved to be required to spatially confine membrane accumulation. Without shortening, the wider cell-plate membrane depositions evolved into cell walls that were thick and irregularly shaped. Phragmoplast assembly thus provides a regular lattice of short overlaps on which a new cell-wall segment can be scaffolded. Since similar patterns of overlaps form in central spindles of animal cells, involving the activity of orthologous proteins [10, 11], we anticipate that our results will help uncover universal features underlying membrane-cytoskeleton coordination during cytokinesis.
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- Jeroen de Keijzer
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands; Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA; Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands; Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
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- Bela M Mulder
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Systems Biophysics, FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Düselder A, Fridman V, Thiede C, Wiesbaum A, Goldstein A, Klopfenstein DR, Zaitseva O, Janson ME, Gheber L, Schmidt CF. Deletion of the Tail Domain of the Kinesin-5 Cin8 Affects Its Directionality. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:16841-50. [PMID: 25991727 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.620799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The bipolar kinesin-5 motors are one of the major players that govern mitotic spindle dynamics. Their bipolar structure enables them to cross-link and slide apart antiparallel microtubules (MTs) emanating from the opposing spindle poles. The budding yeast kinesin-5 Cin8 was shown to switch from fast minus-end- to slow plus-end-directed motility upon binding between antiparallel MTs. This unexpected finding revealed a new dimension of cellular control of transport, the mechanism of which is unknown. Here we have examined the role of the C-terminal tail domain of Cin8 in regulating directionality. We first constructed a stable dimeric Cin8/kinesin-1 chimera (Cin8Kin), consisting of head and neck linker of Cin8 fused to the stalk of kinesin-1. As a single dimeric motor, Cin8Kin switched frequently between plus and minus directionality along single MTs, demonstrating that the Cin8 head domains are inherently bidirectional, but control over directionality was lost. We next examined the activity of a tetrameric Cin8 lacking only the tail domains (Cin8Δtail). In contrast to wild-type Cin8, the motility of single molecules of Cin8Δtail in high ionic strength was slow and bidirectional, with almost no directionality switches. Cin8Δtail showed only a weak ability to cross-link MTs in vitro. In vivo, Cin8Δtail exhibited bias toward the plus-end of the MTs and was unable to support viability of cells as the sole kinesin-5 motor. We conclude that the tail of Cin8 is not necessary for bidirectional processive motion, but is controlling the switch between plus- and minus-end-directed motility.
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- André Düselder
- From the Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- From the Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- From the Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- From the Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- the Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- the Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- the Department of Chemistry and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel, and
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- From the Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, 37077 Göttingen, Germany,
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Kosetsu K, de Keijzer J, Janson ME, Goshima G. MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN65 is essential for maintenance of phragmoplast bipolarity and formation of the cell plate in Physcomitrella patens. Plant Cell 2013; 25:4479-92. [PMID: 24272487 PMCID: PMC3875731 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.117432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The phragmoplast, a plant-specific apparatus that mediates cytokinesis, mainly consists of microtubules (MTs) arranged in a bipolar fashion, such that their plus ends interdigitate at the equator. Membrane vesicles are thought to move along the MTs toward the equator and fuse to form the cell plate. Although several genes required for phragmoplast MT organization have been identified, the mechanisms that maintain the bipolarity of phragmoplasts remain poorly understood. Here, we show that engaging phragmoplast MTs in a bipolar fashion in protonemal cells of the moss Physcomitrella patens requires the conserved MT cross-linking protein MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN65 (MAP65). Simultaneous knockdown of the three MAP65s expressed in those cells severely compromised MT interdigitation at the phragmoplast equator after anaphase onset, resulting in the collapse of the phragmoplast in telophase. Cytokinetic vesicles initially localized to the anaphase midzone as normal but failed to further accumulate in the next several minutes, although the bipolarity of the MT array was preserved. Our data indicate that the presence of bipolar MT arrays is insufficient for vesicle accumulation at the equator and further suggest that MAP65-mediated MT interdigitation is a prerequisite for maintenance of bipolarity of the phragmoplast and accumulation and/or fusion of cell plate-destined vesicles at the equatorial plane.
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- Ken Kosetsu
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
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Kapitein LC, Janson ME, van den Wildenberg SM, Hoogenraad CC, Schmidt CF, Peterman EJ. Microtubule-Driven Multimerization Recruits ase1p onto Overlapping Microtubules. Curr Biol 2008; 18:1713-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.09.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2007] [Revised: 09/15/2008] [Accepted: 09/15/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Janson ME, Tran PT. Chromosome segregation: organizing overlap at the midzone. Curr Biol 2008; 18:R308-11. [PMID: 18397743 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Sets of overlapping microtubules support the segregation of chromosomes by linking the poles of mitotic spindles. Recent work examines the effect of putting these linkages under pressure by the activation of dicentric chromosomes and sheds new light on the structural role of several well-known spindle midzone proteins.
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- Marcel E Janson
- Laboratory of Plant Cell Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Janson ME, Loughlin R, Loïodice I, Fu C, Brunner D, Nédélec FJ, Tran PT. Crosslinkers and motors organize dynamic microtubules to form stable bipolar arrays in fission yeast. Cell 2007; 128:357-68. [PMID: 17254972 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.12.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2006] [Revised: 10/04/2006] [Accepted: 12/26/2006] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Microtubule (MT) nucleation not only occurs from centrosomes, but also in large part from dispersed nucleation sites. The subsequent sorting of short MTs into networks like the mitotic spindle requires molecular motors that laterally slide overlapping MTs and bundling proteins that statically connect MTs. How bundling proteins interfere with MT sliding is unclear. In bipolar MT bundles in fission yeast, we found that the bundler ase1p localized all along the length of antiparallel MTs, whereas the motor klp2p (kinesin-14) accumulated only at MT plus ends. Consequently, sliding forces could only overcome resistant bundling forces for short, newly nucleated MTs, which were transported to their correct position within bundles. Ase1p thus regulated sliding forces based on polarity and overlap length, and computer simulations showed these mechanisms to be sufficient to generate stable bipolar bundles. By combining motor and bundling proteins, cells can thus dynamically organize stable regions of overlap between cytoskeletal filaments.
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- Marcel E Janson
- Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Kerssemakers JWJ, Munteanu EL, Laan L, Noetzel TL, Janson ME, Dogterom M. Assembly dynamics of microtubules at molecular resolution. Nature 2006; 442:709-12. [PMID: 16799566 DOI: 10.1038/nature04928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 480] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2006] [Accepted: 05/05/2006] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Microtubules are highly dynamic protein polymers that form a crucial part of the cytoskeleton in all eukaryotic cells. Although microtubules are known to self-assemble from tubulin dimers, information on the assembly dynamics of microtubules has been limited, both in vitro and in vivo, to measurements of average growth and shrinkage rates over several thousands of tubulin subunits. As a result there is a lack of information on the sequence of molecular events that leads to the growth and shrinkage of microtubule ends. Here we use optical tweezers to observe the assembly dynamics of individual microtubules at molecular resolution. We find that microtubules can increase their overall length almost instantaneously by amounts exceeding the size of individual dimers (8 nm). When the microtubule-associated protein XMAP215 (ref. 6) is added, this effect is markedly enhanced and fast increases in length of about 40-60 nm are observed. These observations suggest that small tubulin oligomers are able to add directly to growing microtubules and that XMAP215 speeds up microtubule growth by facilitating the addition of long oligomers. The achievement of molecular resolution on the microtubule assembly process opens the way to direct studies of the molecular mechanism by which the many recently discovered microtubule end-binding proteins regulate microtubule dynamics in living cells.
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- Jacob W J Kerssemakers
- Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The assembly and disassembly of microtubules can generate pushing and pulling forces that, together with motor proteins, contribute to the correct positioning of chromosomes, mitotic spindles and nuclei in cells. In vitro experiments combined with modeling have shed light on the intrinsic capability of dynamic microtubules to generate force, and various observations of positioning processes in cells and model systems have shown how pushing and pulling forces are used in different situations. A sophisticated set of microtubule-end-binding proteins is responsible for steering dynamic microtubules toward their cellular target and regulating the pushing and/or pulling forces that are generated once contact is established.
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- Marileen Dogterom
- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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The mechanism for forming linear microtubule (MT) arrays in cells such as neurons, polarized epithelial cells, and myotubes is not well understood. A simpler bipolar linear array is the fission yeast interphase MT bundle, which in its basic form contains two MTs that are bundled at their minus ends. Here, we characterize mto2p as a novel fission yeast protein required for MT nucleation from noncentrosomal γ-tubulin complexes (γ-TuCs). In interphase mto2Δ cells, MT nucleation was strongly inhibited, and MT bundling occurred infrequently and only when two MTs met by chance in the cytoplasm. In wild-type 2, we observed MT nucleation from γ-TuCs bound along the length of existing MTs. We propose a model on how these nucleation events can more efficiently drive the formation of bipolar MT bundles in interphase. Key to the model is our observation of selective antiparallel binding of MTs, which can both explain the generation and spatial separation of multiple bipolar bundles.
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- Marcel E Janson
- Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
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Microtubules are dynamic protein polymers that continuously switch between elongation and rapid shrinkage. They have an exceptional bending stiffness that contributes significantly to the mechanical properties of eukaryotic cells. Measurements of the persistence length of microtubules have been published since 10 years but the reported values vary over an order of magnitude without an available explanation. To precisely measure the rigidity of microtubules in their native growing state, we adapted a previously developed bending mode analysis of thermally driven shape fluctuations to the case of an elongating filament that is clamped at one end. Microtubule shapes were quantified using automated image processing, allowing for the characterization of up to five bending modes. When taken together with three other less precise measurements, our rigidity data suggest that fast-growing microtubules are less stiff than slow-growing microtubules. This would imply that care should be taken in interpreting rigidity measurements on stabilized microtubules whose growth history is not known. In addition, time analysis of bending modes showed that higher order modes relax more slowly than expected from simple hydrodynamics, possibly by the effects of internal friction within the microtubule.
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- Marcel E Janson
- F.O.M. Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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In living cells, dynamic microtubule ends interact with specialized protein complexes located on microtubule targets such as chromosomes and the cell cortex. A significant role in coupling microtubule ends to these complexes has been attributed to motor proteins, which are thought to provide a physical link while at the same time allowing for microtubule growth or shrinkage. In the past, motor-coated beads have been shown to be able to follow the ends of depolymerizing microtubules, in a direction opposite to their natural walking direction. Here we show that beads coated with plus-end-directed motors can also stay attached for several seconds to the ends of growing microtubules. Upon arrival at the microtubule end, fast-moving beads reduce their velocity to the microtubule growth velocity. We show that the tendency to stay attached depends on the initial bead velocity and that the microtubule growth velocity is unaffected by the presence of the bead.
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- Eva E F Riemslag
- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Janson ME, Dogterom M. Scaling of microtubule force-velocity curves obtained at different tubulin concentrations. Phys Rev Lett 2004; 92:248101. [PMID: 15245135 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.92.248101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2003] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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We present a single curve that describes the decay in average growth velocity for microtubules in response to a mechanical force. Curves obtained at two new and one previously studied tubulin concentrations coalesce when normalized with the growth velocity at zero load. This scaling provides direct evidence for a force-independent molecular off rate, in agreement with Brownian ratchet models. In addition, microtubule length changes were measured with a precision up to 10 nm, revealing that microtubules under load abruptly switch between different growth velocities.
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- Marcel E Janson
- FOM Institute AMOLF, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Microtubules are long filamentous protein structures that randomly alternate between periods of elongation and shortening in a process termed dynamic instability. The average time a microtubule spends in an elongation phase, known as the catastrophe time, is regulated by the biochemical machinery of the cell throughout the cell cycle. In this light, observed changes in the catastrophe time near cellular boundaries (Brunner, D., and P. Nurse. 2000. Cell. 102:695-704; Komarova, Y.A., I.A. Vorobjev, and G.G. Borisy. 2002. J. Cell Sci. 115:3527-3539) may be attributed to regulatory effects of localized proteins. Here, we argue that the pushing force generated by a microtubule when growing against a cellular object may itself provide a regulatory mechanism of the catastrophe time. We observed an up to 20-fold, force-dependent decrease in the catastrophe time when microtubules grown from purified tubulin were polymerizing against microfabricated barriers. Comparison with catastrophe times for microtubules growing freely at different tubulin concentrations leads us to conclude that force reduces the catastrophe time only by limiting the rate of tubulin addition.
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- Marcel E Janson
- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Abstract
Frequency domain fluorescence measurement using two diode lasers with amplitude modulation in the kHz range yields a signal component at the sum frequency. This intermodulation phenomenon was observed in an aqueous solution of haematoporphyrin (HP) and could be related to triplet state population kinetics. This indirect measurement technique may allow triplet decay time measurement during photodynamic therapy (PDT) enabling monitoring of the type II phototoxic damage rate.
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Affiliation(s)
- H J Sterenborg
- Department of Radiotherapy, Daniel den Hoed Cancer Centre, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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