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Requirement for the budding yeast polo kinase Cdc5 in proper microtubule growth and dynamics

  1. Author:
    Park, C. J.
    Park, J. E.
    Karpova, T. S.
    Soung, N. K.
    Yu, L. R.
    Song, S.
    Lee, K. H.
    Xia, X.
    Kang, E.
    Dabanoglu, I.
    Oh, D. Y.
    Zhang, J. Y.
    Kang, Y. H.
    Wincovitch, S.
    Huffaker, T. C.
    Veenstra, T. D.
    McNally, J. G.
    Lee, K. S.

  2. Author Address

    Park, Chong J.; Park, Jung-Eun, Soung, Nak-Kyun, Song, Sukgil, Lee, Kyung H.; Kang, Eugene, Dabanoglu, Ilknur, Oh, Doo-Yi, Zhang, James Y.; Kang, Young Hwi, Lee, Kyung S.] NIH, Lab Metab, Ctr Canc Res, NCI, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA. [Karpova, Tatiana S.; McNally, James G.] NIH, Lab Receptor Biol & Gene Express, Ctr Canc Res, NCI, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA. [Wincovitch, Stephen] NIH, Expt Carcinogenesis Lab, Ctr Canc Res, NCI, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA. [Yu, Li-Rong, Veenstra, Timothy D.] SAIC Frederick Inc, NCI, Lab Proteom & Analyt Technol, Adv Technol Program, Frederick, MD 21702 USA. [Xia, Xue, Huffaker, Tim C.] Cornell Univ, Dept Mol Biol & Genet, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.
    1. Year: 2008
  2. Journal: Eukaryotic Cell
    1. 7
    2. 3
    3. Pages: 444-453
  4. Type of Article: Article
  1. Abstract:

    In many organisms, polo kinases appear to play multiple roles during M-phase progression. To provide new insights into the function of the budding yeast polo kinase Cdc5, we generated novel temperature-sensitive cdc5 mutants by mutagenizing the C-terminal noncatalytic polo box domain, a region that is critical for proper subcellular localization. One of these mutants, cdc5-11, exhibited a temperature-sensitive growth defect with an abnormal spindle morphology. Strikingly, provision of a moderate level of benomyl, a microtubule-depolymerizing drug, permitted cdc5-11 cells to grow significantly better than the isogenic CDC5 wild type in a FEAR (cdc Fourteen Early Anaphase Release)-independent manner. In addition, cdc5-11 required MAD2 for both cell growth and the benomyl-remedial phenotype. These results suggest that cdc5-11 is defective in proper spindle function. Consistent with this view, cdc5-11 exhibited abnormal spindle morphology, shorter spindle length, and delayed microtubule regrowth at the nonpermissive temperature. Overexpression of CDC5 moderately rescued the spc98-2 growth defect. Interestingly, both Cdc28 and Cdc5 were required for the proper modification of the spindle pole body components Nud1, Slk19, and Stu2 in vivo. They also phosphorylated these three proteins in vitro. Taken together, these observations suggest that concerted action of Cdc28 and Cdc5 on Nud1, Slk19, and Stu2 is important for proper spindle functions.

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