title: Shugoshin 2 regulates localization of the chromosomal passenger proteins in fission yeast mitosis.
abstract: Fission yeast has two members of the Shugoshin family, Sgo1 and Sgo2. Although Sgo1 has clearly been established as a protector of centromere cohesion in meiosis I, the roles of Sgo2 remain elusive. Here we show that Sgo2 is required to ensure proper chromosome biorientation upon recovery from a prolonged spindle checkpoint arrest. Consistent with this, Sgo2 is essential for maintaining the Passenger proteins on centromeres upon checkpoint activation. Interestingly, lack of Sgo2 has a more penetrant effect on the localization of Survivin than on the two other Passenger proteins INCENP and Aurora B, and the Survivin-INCENP complex but not the INCENP-Aurora B complex is destabilized in the absence of Sgo2. Finally we show that the conserved C-terminus of Sgo2 is crucial to maintain Sgo2 and Passenger proteins localization on centromeres upon prolonged checkpoint activation. Taken together, our results demonstrate that Sgo2 is important for chromosome biorientation and that it controls docking of the Passenger proteins on chromosomes in early mitotic cells.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK. vvanoost@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vanoosthuyse
authors.forename: Sergey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Prykhozhij
authors.forename: Kevin G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Hardwick
mesh_terms: D064127:Aurora Kinases; D002503:Centromere / Q000378:metabolism; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D020090:Chromosome Segregation; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008938:Mitosis; D008954:Models, Biological; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes; D009154:Mutation; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D025842:SUMO-1 Protein / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016615:Telomere / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D025842:SUMO-1 Protein; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins; C485973:Sgo1 protein, S pombe; C485974:Sgo2 protein, S pombe; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D064127:Aurora Kinases; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases