Asymmetric localisation of Miranda and its cargo proteins during neuroblast division requires the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome.
Asymmetric cell divisions generate cell fate diversity during both invertebrate and vertebrate development. Drosophila neural progenitors or neuroblasts (NBs) each divide asymmetrically to produce a larger neuroblast and a smaller ganglion mother cell (GMC). The asymmetric localisation of neural cell fate determinants and their adapter proteins to the neuroblast cortex during mitosis facilitates their preferential segregation to the GMC upon cytokinesis. In this study we report a novel role for the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) during this process. Attenuation of APC/C activity disrupts the asymmetric localisation of the adapter protein Miranda and its associated cargo proteins Staufen, Prospero and Brat, but not other components of the asymmetric division machinery. We demonstrate that Miranda is ubiquitylated via its C-terminal domain; removal of this domain disrupts Miranda localisation and replacement of this domain with a ubiquitin moiety restores normal asymmetric Miranda localisation. Our results demonstrate that APC/C activity and ubiquitylation of Miranda are required for the asymmetric localisation of Miranda and its cargo proteins to the NB cortex.
Slack
Cathy
C
MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, New Hunt's House, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London SE1 1UL, UK. c.slack@ucl.ac.uk
Overton
Paul M
PM
Tuxworth
Richard I
RI
Chia
William
W
D064173:Anaphase-Promoting Complex-Cyclosome; D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified; D064193:Apc5 Subunit, Anaphase-Promoting Complex-Cyclosome; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002455:Cell Division; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000166:cytology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D007605:Juvenile Hormones / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D025801:Ubiquitin / Q000378:metabolism; D043743:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
D064193:Apc5 Subunit, Anaphase-Promoting Complex-Cyclosome; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; C577379:Ida protein, Drosophila; D007605:Juvenile Hormones; C107613:Mira protein, Drosophila; C115164:PON protein, Drosophila; D025801:Ubiquitin; C060606:numb protein, Drosophila; D043743:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes; D064173:Anaphase-Promoting Complex-Cyclosome