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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 27, Issue 8, Pages 1300-1309Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E15-11-0803
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- National Science Foundation [1041173]
- National Institutes of Health [GM69429, F32GM105099]
- American Cancer Society Fellowship [PF1409901CCG]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1041173] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Depletion of microtubule (MT) regulators can initiate stable alterations in MT assembly rates that affect chromosome instability and mitotic spindle function, but the manner by which cellular MT assembly rates can stably increase or decrease is not understood. To investigate this phenomenon, we measured the response of microtubule assembly to both rapid and long-term loss of MT regulators MCAK/Kif2C and Kif18A. Depletion of MCAK/Kif2C by siRNA stably decreases MT assembly rates in mitotic spindles, whereas depletion of Kif18A stably increases rates of assembly. Surprisingly, this is not phenocopied by rapid rapamycin-dependent relocalization of MCAK/Kif2C and Kif18A to the plasma membrane. Instead, this treatment yields opposite affects on MT assembly. Rapidly increased MT assembly rates are balanced by a decrease in nucleated microtubules, whereas nucleation appears to be maximal and limiting for decreased MT assembly rates and also for long-term treatments. We measured amplified tubulin synthesis during long-term depletion of MT regulators and hypothesize that this is the basis for different phenotypes arising from long-term versus rapid depletion of MT regulators.
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