Cell Cycle Regulation of Membrane Trafficking

膜运输的细胞周期调控

• 批准号: 10296839
• 负责人: Joshua Nathaniel Bembenek
• 金额: $ 7.05万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-15 至 2022-01-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10296839
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Alleles; Anaphase; Binding; Biochemical Genetics; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell Compartmentation; Cell Cycle; Cell Cycle Regulation; Cell division; Cells; Cellular biology; Chromosome Segregation; Chromosomes; Cleaved cell; Complex; Cytokinesis; Cytoplasmic Granules; Data; Development; Disease; Embryo; Ensure; Enzymes; Event; Exocytosis; Fertilization; Funding; Genetic; Genome; Goals; Heat-Shock Proteins 90; In Vitro; Infertility; Inherited; Knowledge; Malignant Neoplasms; Maps; Mass Spectrum Analysis; Meiosis; Membrane; Mitotic; Molecular Chaperones; Mutation; Oocytes; PTTG1 gene; Pathway interactions; Peptide Hydrolases; Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases; Phosphorylation; Phosphorylation Site; Process; Regulation; Regulation of Exocytosis; Regulatory Pathway; Role; Series; Sister Chromatid; Testing; Vesicle; Work; anaphase-promoting complex; cohesin; daughter cell; genetic approach; insight; mutant; novel; overexpression; prevent; segregation; separase; tool; trafficking

Project Summary Cell division requires a carefully coordinated series of essential events that must be precisely regulated. A central feature of cell division is the accurate segregation of chromosomes into daughter cells. Other compartments of the cell must also be carefully packaged into daughter cells, and coordinated with chromosome segregation. Membrane trafficking pathways are essential for the completion of cytokinesis at the end of cell division. How cells control membrane trafficking during cytokinesis is not well understood. The large protease separase is a central player in chromosome segregation due to its role in cohesin cleavage, which allows chromosome separation at the onset of anaphase. After chromosome segregation, separase promotes several events during anaphase. This proposal aims to understand a novel role of separase in the exocytosis of RAB-11 vesicles required for cytokinesis. Separase also regulates exocytosis of large cortical granules during anaphase of meiosis I to block polyspermy, which is an ideal context to analyze this regulatory pathway. We will use biochemical and genetic approaches to identify substrates or binding partners of separase on vesicles to define the mechanism by which it promotes exocytosis. The dynamic localization of separase is regulated during cell division and separase only localizes to vesicles during anaphase. We will investigate how chromosome segregation regulators control separase activity and localization to vesicles. Overexpression of non-degradable securin will be used to determine how this inhibitory chaperone controls the exocytic function of separase. Mutations of the PPH-5 phosphatase and its activator HSP-90 were identified as suppressors of embryo lethality of separase mutants. Separase phosphorylation sites will be mapped and phosphorylation mutants will be studied to determine how they affect separase function. PPH-5 will be tested to determine if it directly dephosphorylates separase in vitro. The functions of PPH-5 and HSP-90 will be characterized to determine whether they directly regulate separase during the meiotic divisions. These studies will be performed using the genetically tractable C. elegans embryo. This work will provide new insight into how cells coordinate the essential process of chromosome segregation with exocytosis during cytokinesis, which is relevant to understanding normal development and diseases such as infertility and cancer.

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