Intracellular functions and motile properties of bi-directional kinesin-5 Cin8 are regulated by neck linker docking

  1. Alina Goldstein-Levitin
  2. Himanshu Pandey
  3. Kanary Allhuzaeel
  4. Itamar Kass
  5. Larisa Gheber  Is a corresponding author
  1. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  2. Monash University, Australia

Abstract

In this study, we analyzed intracellular functions and motile properties of neck-linker (NL) variants of the bi-directional S. cerevisiae kinesin-5 motor, Cin8. We also examined – by modeling – the configuration of H-bonds during NL docking. Decreasing the number of stabilizing H-bonds resulted in partially functional variants, as long as a conserved backbone H-bond at the N-latch position (proposed to stabilize the docked conformation of the NL) remained intact. Elimination of this conserved H-bond resulted in production of a non-functional Cin8 variant. Surprisingly, additional H-bond stabilization of the N-latch position, generated by replacement of the NL of Cin8 by sequences of the plus-end directed kinesin-5 Eg5, also produced a nonfunctional variant. In that variant, a single replacement of N-latch asparagine with glycine, as present in Cin8, eliminated the additional H-bond stabilization and rescued the functional defects. We conclude that exact N-latch stabilization during NL docking is critical for the function of bi-directional kinesin-5 Cin8.

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  1. Alina Goldstein-Levitin

    Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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    No competing interests declared.
  2. Himanshu Pandey

    Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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    No competing interests declared.
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  3. Kanary Allhuzaeel

    Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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    No competing interests declared.
  4. Itamar Kass

    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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    Itamar Kass, is affiliated with InterX LTD. The author has no other competing interests to declare..
  5. Larisa Gheber

    Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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    lgheber@bgu.ac.il
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    No competing interests declared.
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Funding

Israel Science Foundation (ISF-386/18)

  • Larisa Gheber

Isreal Binational Science Foundation (BSF-2015851)

  • Larisa Gheber

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. Kristen J Verhey, University of Michigan, United States

Publication history

  1. Preprint posted: May 29, 2020 (view preprint)
  2. Received: June 6, 2021
  3. Accepted: July 13, 2021
  4. Accepted Manuscript published: August 13, 2021 (version 1)
  5. Version of Record published: August 31, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2021, Goldstein-Levitin et al.

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

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  1. Alina Goldstein-Levitin
  2. Himanshu Pandey
  3. Kanary Allhuzaeel
  4. Itamar Kass
  5. Larisa Gheber
(2021)
Intracellular functions and motile properties of bi-directional kinesin-5 Cin8 are regulated by neck linker docking
eLife 10:e71036.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71036

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