Spatial signals link exit from mitosis to spindle position

  1. Jill E Falk
  2. Dai Tsuchiya
  3. Jolien Verdaasdonk
  4. Soni Lacefield
  5. Kerry Bloom
  6. Angelika Amon  Is a corresponding author
  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  2. Indiana University, United States
  3. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Abstract

In budding yeast, if the spindle becomes mispositioned, cells prevent exit from mitosis by inhibiting the mitotic exit network (MEN). The MEN is a signaling cascade that localizes to spindle pole bodies (SPBs) and activates the phosphatase Cdc14. There are two competing models that explain MEN regulation by spindle position. In the "zone model", exit from mitosis occurs when a MEN-bearing SPB enters the bud. The "cMT-bud neck model" posits that cytoplasmic microtubule (cMT)-bud neck interactions prevent MEN activity. Here we find that 1) eliminating cMT- bud neck interactions does not trigger exit from mitosis and 2) loss of these interactions does not precede Cdc14 activation. Furthermore, using binucelate cells, we show that exit from mitosis occurs when one SPB enters the bud despite the presence of a mispositioned spindle. We conclude that exit from mitosis is triggered by a correctly positioned spindle rather than inhibited by improper spindle position.

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  1. Jill E Falk

    David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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  2. Dai Tsuchiya

    Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
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  3. Jolien Verdaasdonk

    Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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  4. Soni Lacefield

    Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
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  5. Kerry Bloom

    Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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  6. Angelika Amon

    David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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    angelika@mit.edu
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    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

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  1. Yukiko M Yamashita, University of Michigan, United States

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  1. Received: December 24, 2015
  2. Accepted: April 7, 2016
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: May 11, 2016 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: May 31, 2016 (version 2)

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© 2016, Falk et al.

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  1. Jill E Falk
  2. Dai Tsuchiya
  3. Jolien Verdaasdonk
  4. Soni Lacefield
  5. Kerry Bloom
  6. Angelika Amon
(2016)
Spatial signals link exit from mitosis to spindle position
eLife 5:e14036.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.14036

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