Kinetochore localization of spindle checkpoint proteins: who controls whom?
The spindle checkpoint prevents anaphase onset until all the chromosomes have successfully attached to the spindle microtubules. The mechanisms by which unattached kinetochores trigger and transmit a primary signal are poorly understood, although it seems to be dependent at least in part, on the kinetochore localization of the different checkpoint components. By using protein immunodepletion and mRNA translation in Xenopus egg extracts, we have studied the hierarchic sequence and the interdependent network that governs protein recruitment at the kinetochore in the spindle checkpoint pathway. Our results show that the first regulatory step of this cascade is defined by Aurora B/INCENP complex. Aurora B/INCENP controls the activation of a second regulatory level by inducing at the kinetochore the localization of Mps1, Bub1, Bub3, and CENP-E. This localization, in turn, promotes the recruitment to the kinetochore of Mad1/Mad2, Cdc20, and the anaphase promoting complex (APC). Unlike Aurora B/INCENP, Mps1, Bub1, and CENP-E, the downstream checkpoint protein Mad1 does not regulate the kinetochore localization of either Cdc20 or APC. Similarly, Cdc20 and APC do not require each other to be localized at these chromosome structures. Thus, at the last step of the spindle checkpoint cascade, Mad1/Mad2, Cdc20, and APC are recruited at the kinetochores independently from each other.
Centre de Recherche de Biochimie Macromoléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Formation de Recherche en Evolution 2593, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France.
Suzanne
S
Vigneron
Susana
S
Prieto
Cyril
C
Bernis
Jean-Claude
JC
Labbé
Anna
A
Castro
Thierry
T
Lorca
D000818:Animals; D064127:Aurora Kinases; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D018386:Kinetochores / Q000378:metabolism*; D009865:Oocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D008941:Spindle Apparatus / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D029867:Xenopus Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D014982:Xenopus laevis
D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D029867:Xenopus Proteins; D011494:Protein Kinases; D064127:Aurora Kinases; C090464:Bub1 spindle checkpoint protein; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases