Journal
BIOLOGY OPEN
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 314-323Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/bio.20133327
Keywords
Centriole; Mitosis; Spindle; Cytoskeleton; Drosophila; Anastral; Cell lines
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Funding
- ANR [Blan06-3-139786]
- ARC grant [SL220100601358]
- Ligue Contre le Cancer'' grant [RS11/75-34]
- ARC [4720XP023OF]
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Pierre Fabre Laboratories
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia of Portugal (COMPETE-FEDER) [PTDC/SAU-GMG/099704/2008, PTDC/SAU-ONC/112917/2009]
- Human Frontier Research Program
- 7th framework program grant PRECISE from the European Research Council
- Portuguese-French cooperation program PESSOA [Egide PHC 20027YD]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/SAU-ONC/112917/2009, PTDC/SAU-GMG/099704/2008] Funding Source: FCT
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In animal cells the centrosome is commonly viewed as the main cellular structure driving microtubule (MT) assembly into the mitotic spindle apparatus. However, additional pathways, such as those mediated by chromatin and augmin, are involved in the establishment of functional spindles. The molecular mechanisms involved in these pathways remain poorly understood, mostly due to limitations inherent to current experimental systems available. To overcome these limitations we have developed six new Drosophila cell lines derived from Drosophila homozygous mutants for DSas-4, a protein essential for centriole biogenesis. These cells lack detectable centrosomal structures, astral MT, with dispersed pericentriolar proteins D-PLP, Centrosomin and gamma-tubulin. They show poorly focused spindle poles that reach the plasma membrane. Despite being compromised for functional centrosome, these cells could successfully undergo mitosis. Live-cell imaging analysis of acentriolar spindle assembly revealed that nascent MTs are nucleated from multiple points in the vicinity of chromosomes. These nascent MTs then grow away from kinetochores allowing the expansion of fibers that will be part of the future acentriolar spindle. MT repolymerization assays illustrate that acentriolar spindle assembly occurs inside-out from the chromosomes. Colchicine-mediated depolymerization of MTs further revealed the presence of a functional Spindle Assembly Checkpoint (SAC) in the acentriolar cells. Finally, pilot RNAi experiments open the potential use of these cell lines for the molecular dissection of anastral pathways in spindle and centrosome assembly. (C) 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.
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