The Calpain-7 protease functions together with the ESCRT-III protein IST1 within the midbody to regulate the timing and completion of abscission
- University of Utah, United States
Abstract
The Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport (ESCRT) machinery mediates the membrane fission step that completes cytokinetic abscission and separates dividing cells. Filaments composed of ESCRT-III subunits constrict membranes of the intercellular bridge midbody to the abscission point. These filaments also bind and recruit cofactors whose activities help execute abscission and/or delay abscission timing in response to mitotic errors via the NoCut/Abscission checkpoint. We previously showed that the ESCRT-III subunit IST1 binds the cysteine protease CAPN7 (Calpain-7) and that CAPN7 is required for both efficient abscission and NoCut checkpoint maintenance (Wenzel et al., 2022). Here, we report biochemical and crystallographic studies showing that the tandem MIT domains of CAPN7 bind simultaneously to two distinct IST1 MIT interaction motifs. Structure-guided point mutations in either CAPN7 MIT domain disrupted IST1 binding in vitro and in cells, and depletion/rescue experiments showed that the CAPN7-IST1 interaction is required for: 1) CAPN7 recruitment to midbodies, 2) efficient abscission, and 3) NoCut checkpoint arrest. CAPN7 proteolytic activity is also required for abscission and checkpoint maintenance. Hence, IST1 recruits CAPN7 to midbodies, where its proteolytic activity is required to regulate and complete abscission.
Data availability
X-Ray diffraction data were deposited in the PDB under accession code 8DFJ. NMR chemical shift assignments for IST1(303-366) are available at Biological Magnetic Resonance Bank (Accession no: 25393)(Caballe et al., 2015). All new plasmids generated for this study have been deposited at Addgene.
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Katharine S Ullman
Christopher P Hill
Wesley I Sundquist
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National Institutes of Health (5R01GM112080)
- Katharine S Ullman
- Christopher P Hill
- Wesley I Sundquist
National Institutes of Health (F31GM139318)
- Elliott L Paine
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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© 2023, Paine et al.
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The Calpain-7 protease functions together with the ESCRT-III protein IST1 within the midbody to regulate the timing and completion of abscission
eLife 12:e84515.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84515
