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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 1374-1386Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E03-06-0405
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM-42564, GM-31837, R01 GM042564, R01 GM031837] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent data from multiple organisms indicate that gamma-tubulin has essential, but incompletely defined, functions in addition to nucleating microtubule assembly. To investigate these functions, we examined the phenotype of mipAD159, a cold-sensitive allele of the gamma-tubulin gene of Aspergillus nidulans. Immunofluorescence microscopy of synchronized material revealed that at a restrictive temperature mipAD159 does not inhibit mitotic spindle formation. Anaphase A was inhibited in many nuclei, however, and after a slight delay in mitosis (similar to6% of the cell cycle period), most nuclei reentered interphase without dividing. In vivo observations of chromosomes at a restrictive temperature revealed that mipAD159 caused a failure of the coordination of late mitotic events (anaphase A, anaphase B, and chromosomal disjunction) and nuclei reentered interphase quickly even though mitosis was not completed successfully. Time-lapse microscopy also revealed that transient mitotic spindle abnormalities, in particular bent spindles, were more prevalent in mipAD159 strains than in controls. In experiments in which microtubules were depolymerized. with benomyl, mipAD159 nuclei exited mitosis significantly more quickly (as judged by chromosomal condensation) than nuclei in a control strain. These data reveal that gamma-tubulin has an essential role in the coordination of late mitotic events, and a microtubule-independent function in mitotic checkpoint control..
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