Abstract
Cytoplasmic microtubules (cMT) control mitotic spindle positioning in many organisms, and are therefore pivotal for successful cell division. Despite its importance, the temporal control of cMT formation remains poorly understood. Here we show that unlike the best-studied yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, position of pre-anaphase nucleus is not strongly biased toward bud neck in Ogataea polymorpha and the regulation of spindle positioning becomes active only shortly before anaphase. This is likely due to the unstable property of cMTs compared to those in S. cerevisiae. Furthermore, we show that cMT nucleation/anchoring is restricted at the level of recruitment of the γ-tubulin complex receptor, Spc72, to spindle pole body (SPB), which is regulated by the polo-like kinase Cdc5. Additionally, electron microscopy revealed that the cytoplasmic side of SPB is structurally different between G1 and anaphase. Thus, polo-like kinase dependent recruitment of γ-tubulin receptor to SPBs determines the timing of spindle orientation in O. polymorpha.
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Institute for Fermentation, Osaka (the Endowed Chair Program)
- Yoshinobu Kaneko
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP24570214)
- Hiromi Maekawa
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (PE1883)
- Gislene Pereira
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB873)
- Gislene Pereira
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB1036)
- Gislene Pereira
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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- Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Publication history
- Received: December 19, 2016
- Accepted: August 17, 2017
- Accepted Manuscript published: August 30, 2017 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: October 3, 2017 (version 2)
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© 2017, Maekawa et al.
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