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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 159, Issue 2, Pages 255-266Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200204023
Keywords
centrosome; microtubules; pericentriolar material; RNAi; dynein
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- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
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The protein PCM-1 localizes to cytoplasmic granules known as centriolar satellites that are partly enriched around the centrosome. We inhibited PCM-1 function using a variety of approaches: microinjection of antibodies into cultured cells, overexpression of a PCM-1 deletion mutant, and specific depletion of PCM-1 by siRNA. All approaches led to reduced targeting of centrin, pericentrin, and ninein to the centrosome. Similar effects were seen upon inhibition of dynactin by dynamitin, and after prolonged treatment of cells with the microtubule inhibitor nocodazole. Inhibition or depletion of PCM-1 function further disrupted the radial organization of microtubules without affecting microtubule nucleation. Loss of microtubule organization was also observed after centrin or ninein depletion. Our data suggest that PCM-1-containing centriolar satellites are involved in the microtubule- and dynactin-dependent recruitment of proteins to the centrosome, of which centrin and ninein are required for interphase microtubule organization.
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