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Differential requirements for the CENP-O complex reveal parallel PLK1 kinetochore recruitment pathways

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 32, Issue 8, Pages 712-721

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AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e20-11-0751

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  1. National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences [R35GM-126930]
  2. National Science Foundation [2029868]
  3. Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity and Equity
  4. Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellowship
  5. Direct For Biological Sciences
  6. Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [2029868] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Most cell division components are essential for viability across human cell lines, but there are proteins that exhibit cell line-specific essentiality. Understanding the behaviors of these proteins is critical for our understanding of complex biological processes. The differential essentiality approach reveals the contributions of the CENP-O complex, shedding light on the precise functions and interactions within the cell division process.
Similar to other core biological processes, the vast majority of cell division components are essential for viability across human cell lines. However, recent genome-wide screens have identified a number of proteins that exhibit cell line-specific essentiality. Defining the behaviors of these proteins is critical to our understanding of complex biological processes. Here, we harness differential essentiality to reveal the contributions of the four-subunit centromere-localized CENP-O complex, whose precise function has been difficult to define. Our results support a model in which the CENP-O complex and BUB1 act in parallel pathways to recruit a threshold level of PLK1 to mitotic kinetochores, ensuring accurate chromosome segregation. We demonstrate that targeted changes to either pathway sensitizes cells to the loss of the other component, resulting in cell-state dependent requirements. This approach also highlights the advantage of comparing phenotypes across diverse cell lines to define critical functional contributions and behaviors that could be exploited for the targeted treatment of disease.

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