ULK3 regulates cytokinetic abscission by phosphorylating ESCRT-III proteins

  1. Anna Caballe
  2. Dawn M Wenzel
  3. Monica Agromayor
  4. Steven L Alam
  5. Jack J Skalicky
  6. Magdalena Kloc
  7. Jeremy G Carlton
  8. Leticia Labrador
  9. Wesley I Sundquist
  10. Juan Martin-Serrano  Is a corresponding author
  1. King's College London School of Medicine, United Kingdom
  2. University of Utah School of Medicine, United States

Abstract

The Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport (ESCRT) machinery mediates the physical separation between daughter cells during cytokinetic abscission. This process is regulated by the abscission checkpoint, a genome protection mechanism that relies on Aurora B and the ESCRT-III subunit CHMP4C to delay abscission in response to chromosome missegregation. Here we show that Unc-51-like kinase 3 (ULK3) phosphorylates and binds ESCRT-III subunits via tandem MIT domains and thereby delays abscission in response to lagging chromosomes, nuclear pore defects and tension forces at the midbody. Our structural and biochemical studies reveal an unusually tight interaction between ULK3 and IST1, an ESCRT-III subunit required for abscission. We also demonstrate that IST1 phosphorylation by ULK3 is an essential signal required to sustain the abscission checkpoint and that ULK3 and CHMP4C are functionally linked components of the timer that controls abscission in multiple physiological situations.

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  1. Anna Caballe

    Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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    No competing interests declared.
  2. Dawn M Wenzel

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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    No competing interests declared.
  3. Monica Agromayor

    Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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    No competing interests declared.
  4. Steven L Alam

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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  5. Jack J Skalicky

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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    No competing interests declared.
  6. Magdalena Kloc

    Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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    No competing interests declared.
  7. Jeremy G Carlton

    Division of Cancer Studies, King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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  8. Leticia Labrador

    Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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    No competing interests declared.
  9. Wesley I Sundquist

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, United States
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    Wesley I Sundquist, Reviewing editor, eLife.
  10. Juan Martin-Serrano

    Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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    juan.martin_serrano@kcl.ac.uk
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    No competing interests declared.

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© 2015, Caballe et al.

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  1. Anna Caballe
  2. Dawn M Wenzel
  3. Monica Agromayor
  4. Steven L Alam
  5. Jack J Skalicky
  6. Magdalena Kloc
  7. Jeremy G Carlton
  8. Leticia Labrador
  9. Wesley I Sundquist
  10. Juan Martin-Serrano
(2015)
ULK3 regulates cytokinetic abscission by phosphorylating ESCRT-III proteins
eLife 4:e06547.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06547

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