Control of microtubule length by polymerases and depolymerases

通过聚合酶和解聚酶控制微管长度

• 批准号: 8672892
• 负责人: Jonathon Howard
• 金额: $ 40.51万
• 依托单位: YALE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8672892
• 关键词: Acceleration; Aneuploidy; Biochemical; Biological Assay; Biological Models; Biophysics; Brain; Cell division; Cells; Cellular biology; Chromosome Segregation; Chromosomes; Computer Simulation; Congenital Abnormality; Daughter; Energy-Generating Resources; Ensure; Equilibrium; Feedback; Filament; Filopodia; G1/S Transition; Genes; Genetic; Grant; Growth; Guanosine Triphosphate; Homologous Gene; Hydrolysis; Inherited; Kinesin; Lead; Length; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Microtubule Depolymerization; Microtubule-Associated Proteins; Microtubules; Mitosis; Mitotic spindle; Molecular; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Morphology; Mothers; Motor; Neurons; Organelles; Phase; Polymerase; Polymers; Post-Translational Protein Processing; Property; Protein Isoforms; Proteins; Regulation; Role; Saccharomycetales; Scheme; Stereocilium; System; Techniques; Testing; Tissues; Tubulin; Work; Yeasts; base; cancer cell; cell motility; cellular microvillus; genetic analysis; human disease; insight; mathematical model; novel; polymerization; public health relevance; segregation; single molecule; yeast protein

Summary/Abstract A fundamental, but poorly understood, problem in cell biology is how the sizes of organelles are controlled. The lengths of mitotic spindles and axonemes, for example, vary by as little as a few per cent between cells of the same type. Furthermore, the correct size and morphology are essential for function-mitotic spindles for cell division and axonemes for motility. Cells regulate the sizes of these organelles by tightly controlling the lengths of their constituent microtubules. In the absence of a molecular ruler that templates microtubule length, it is thought that length control results from a delicate balance between polymerization and depolymerization of the microtubules. How this is achieved is not known. ! Based on our previous work in which we showed that the motor kinesin-8 Kip3 is a length-dependent microtubule depolymerase, we hypothesize that motor proteins, in conjunction with other microtubule- associated proteins (MAPs), can provide feedback between length and dynamics that tightly regulates the lengths of microtubules. ! The general aim of this grant is to use single-molecule techniques, together with mathematical modeling, to understand how two additional proteins-the yeast kinesin Kip2 and the yeast homolog of the vertebrate polymerase XMAP215, Stu2-together with Kip3, regulate the lengths of yeast microtubules. We have devised a novel purification scheme for native budding-yeast tubulin and this allows us to employ yeast as our model system, which has distinct advantages due to the small number of tubulin isoforms and the absence of potentially confounding post-translational modifications found in vertebrate, and in particular brain, tubulin. ! Our specific aims are to (1) characterize the acceleration of growth of yeast microtubules by Stu2, (ii) determine how Kip2 promotes microtubule assembly, and (iii) examine the precision with which Kip3, in combination with Kip2 and Stu2, controls microtubule lengths. These studies will provide important insight into the assembly and function of the mitotic spindle and establish principles of length regulation that will be applicable to other biomedically relevant organellar systems such axonemes, microvilli, stereocilia and filopodia.

总结/摘要 细胞生物学中一个基本但知之甚少的问题是细胞器的大小如何控制。的 例如，有丝分裂纺锤体和轴丝的长度在细胞之间的变化只有百分之几。 一样的此外，正确的大小和形态对于细胞的有丝分裂纺锤体功能是必不可少的。 分裂和轴丝的运动。细胞通过严格控制这些细胞器的长度来调节它们的大小 它们的组成微管。在没有一个模板微管长度的分子标尺的情况下， 认为长度控制是由聚合物的聚合和解聚之间的微妙平衡引起的。 微管这是如何实现的尚不清楚。 !基于我们以前的工作，我们发现运动驱动蛋白-8 Kip 3是一个长度依赖性的， 微管解聚酶，我们假设马达蛋白，与其他微管- 相关蛋白（MAPs），可以提供长度和动态之间的反馈，严格调节细胞的生长。 微管的长度 !这项资助的总体目标是使用单分子技术， 模型，以了解两个额外的蛋白质-酵母驱动蛋白Kip 2和酵母同系物的 脊椎动物聚合酶XMAP 215，Stu 2-与Kip 3一起调节酵母微管的长度。我们 我设计了一种新的天然芽殖酵母微管蛋白的纯化方案，这使我们能够使用酵母 作为我们的模型系统，由于微管蛋白同种型的数量少， 在脊椎动物，特别是脑， 微管蛋白 !我们的具体目标是（1）表征Stu 2对酵母微管生长的加速作用，（ii） 确定Kip 2如何促进微管组装，以及（iii）检查Kip 3的精确性， 与Kip 2和Stu 2的组合控制微管长度。这些研究将提供重要的见解， 有丝分裂纺锤体的组装和功能，并建立长度调节的原则， 适用于其他生物医学相关的细胞器系统，如轴丝，微绒毛，静纤毛和 丝状伪足