Cell cycle-specific loading of condensin I is regulated by the N-terminal tail of its kleisin subunit

Abstract

Condensin I is a pentameric protein complex that plays an essential role in mitotic chromosome assembly in eukaryotic cells. Although it has been shown that condensin I loading is mitosis-specific, it remains poorly understood how the robust cell cycle regulation of condensin I is achieved. Here we set up a panel of in vitro assays to demonstrate that cell cycle-specific loading of condensin I is regulated by the N-terminal tail (N-tail) of its kleisin subunit CAP-H. Deletion of the N-tail accelerates condensin I loading and chromosome assembly in Xenopus egg mitotic extracts. Phosphorylation-deficient and phosphorylation-mimetic mutations in the CAP-H N-tail decelerate and accelerate condensin I loading, respectively. Remarkably, deletion of the N-tail enables condensin I to assemble mitotic chromosome-like structures even in interphase extracts. Together with other extract-free functional assays in vitro, our results uncover one of the multilayered mechanisms that ensure cell cycle-specific loading of condensin I onto chromosomes.

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  1. Shoji Tane

    Chromosome Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan
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  2. Keishi Shintomi

    Chromosome Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan
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  3. Kazuhisa Kinoshita

    Chromosome Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan
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  4. Yuko Tsubota

    Division of Biological Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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  5. Makoto M Yoshida

    Chromosome Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan
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  6. Tomoko Nishiyama

    Division of Biological Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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  7. Tatsuya Hirano

    Chromosome Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan
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Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#17K15070)

  • Shoji Tane

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#19H05755)

  • Keishi Shintomi

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#22H02551)

  • Keishi Shintomi

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#19K06499)

  • Kazuhisa Kinoshita

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#20H05937)

  • Tomoko Nishiyama

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#18H05276)

  • Tatsuya Hirano

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#20H0593)

  • Tatsuya Hirano

Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (JPMJPRK4)

  • Tomoko Nishiyama

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (#20K15723)

  • Tomoko Nishiyama

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: Female Xenopus laevis frogs (RRID: NXR 0.031, Hamamatsu Seibutsu-Kyozai) were used to lay eggs to harvest Xenopus egg extract (Hirano et al., 1997). Frogs were used in compliance with the institutional regulations of the RIKEN Wako Campus. Mice (BALB/c × C57BL/6J)F1) for sperm nuclei (Shintomi et al., 2017) were used in compliance with protocols approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of the University of Tokyo (for M. Ohsugi who provided mouse sperm).

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© 2022, Tane et al.

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  1. Shoji Tane
  2. Keishi Shintomi
  3. Kazuhisa Kinoshita
  4. Yuko Tsubota
  5. Makoto M Yoshida
  6. Tomoko Nishiyama
  7. Tatsuya Hirano
(2022)
Cell cycle-specific loading of condensin I is regulated by the N-terminal tail of its kleisin subunit
eLife 11:e84694.
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