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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 1652-1660Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E08-08-0883
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- American Cancer Society-Michael Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship [PF-07-103-01-CSM]
- Huntsman Cancer Institute [P30 CA042014]
- National Institutes of Health [R01 GM-61275]
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and the Huntsman Cancer Foundation
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Accurate inheritance of genomic content during cell division is dependent on synchronized changes in cellular organization and chromosome dynamics. Elucidating how these events are coordinated is necessary for a complete understanding of cell proliferation. Previous in vitro studies have suggested that the nuclear pore protein Nup153 is a good candidate for participating in mitotic coordination. To decipher whether this is the case in mammalian somatic cells, we reduced the levels of Nup153 in HeLa cells and monitored consequences on cell growth. Reduction of Nup153 resulted in a delay during the late stages of mitosis accompanied by an increase in unresolved midbodies. Depletion of Nup153 to an even lower threshold led to a pronounced defect early in mitosis and an accumulation of cells with multilobed nuclei. Although global nucleocytoplasmic transport was not significantly altered under these depletion conditions, the FG-rich region of Nup153 was required to rescue defects in late mitosis. Thus, this motif may play a specialized role as cells exit mitosis. Rescue of the multilobed nuclei phenotype, in contrast, was independent of the FG-domain, revealing two separable roles for Nup153 in the execution of mitosis.
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