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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 112, Issue 12 1979-1988, Copyright © 1999 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
EL Grishchuk and JR McIntosh
Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia 117334.
The proper functioning of microtubules depends crucially on the availability of polymerizable alpha/beta tubulin dimers. Their production occurs concomitant with the folding of the tubulin polypeptides and is accomplished in part by proteins known as Cofactors A through E. In the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, this tubulin folding pathway is essential. We have taken advantage of the excellent cytology available in S. pombe to examine the phenotypic consequences of a deletion of sto1(+), a gene that encodes a protein similar to Cofactor E, which is required for the folding of alpha-tubulin. The interphase microtubule cytoskeleton in sto1-delta cells is severely disrupted, and as cells enter mitosis their spindles fail to form. After a transient arrest with condensed chromosomes, the cells exit mitosis and resume DNA synthesis, whereupon they septate abnormally and die. Overexpression of Spo1p is toxic to cells carrying a cold-sensitive allele of the alpha- but not the beta-tubulin gene, consistent with the suggestion that this protein plays a role like that of Cofactor E. Unlike its presumptive partner Cofactor D (Alp1p), however, Sto1p does not localize to microtubules but is found throughout the cell. Overexpression of Sto1p has no toxic effects in wild-type cells, suggesting that it is unable to disrupt alpha/beta tubulin dimers in vivo.
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