The Mitotic Exit Network integrates temporal and spatial signals by distributing regulation across multiple components

  1. Ian Winsten Campbell
  2. Xiaoxue Zhou
  3. Angelika Amon  Is a corresponding author
  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Abstract

GTPase signal transduction pathways control cellular decision making by integrating multiple cellular events into a single signal. The Mitotic Exit Network (MEN), a Ras-like GTPase signaling pathway, integrates spatial and temporal cues to ensure that cytokinesis only occurs after the genome has partitioned between mother and daughter cells during anaphase. Here we show that signal integration does not occur at a single step of the pathway. Rather, sequential components of the pathway are controlled in series by different signals. The spatial signal, nuclear position, regulates the MEN GTPase Tem1. The temporal signal, commencement of anaphase, is mediated by mitotic cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) phosphorylation of the GTPase's downstream kinases. We propose that integrating multiple signals through sequential steps in the GTPase pathway represents a generalizable principle in GTPase signaling and explains why intracellular signal transmission is a multi-step process. Serial signal integration rather than signal amplification makes multi-step signal transduction necessary.

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  1. Ian Winsten Campbell

    David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.
  2. Xiaoxue Zhou

    David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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  3. 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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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD085866)

  • Angelika Amon

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • Angelika Amon

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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  1. Jon Pines, Institute of Cancer Research Research, United Kingdom

Version history

  1. Received: August 15, 2018
  2. Accepted: January 10, 2019
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: January 23, 2019 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: February 5, 2019 (version 2)

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© 2019, Campbell et al.

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  1. Ian Winsten Campbell
  2. Xiaoxue Zhou
  3. Angelika Amon
(2019)
The Mitotic Exit Network integrates temporal and spatial signals by distributing regulation across multiple components
eLife 8:e41139.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.41139

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