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First published online 27 October 2009
doi: 10.1242/jcs.059196

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In vivo analysis of the functions of -tubulin-complex proteins

¹ Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
² Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA

^* Author for correspondence (boakley{at}ku.edu)

Accepted 10 September 2009

To enhance our understanding of the function(s) of -tubulin-complex proteins (GCPs), we identified and analyzed the functions of the Aspergillus nidulans homologs of GCP2-GCP6 (here designated GCPB-GCBF). The -tubulin small complex (-TuSC) components, -tubulin, GCPB and GCPC, are essential for viability and mitotic spindle formation, whereas GCPD-GCPF are not essential for viability, spindle formation or sexual reproduction. GCPD-GCPF function in reducing the frequency of chromosome mis-segregation and in the assembly of large -tubulin complexes. Deletion of any of the -TuSC components eliminates the localization of all GCPs to the spindle pole body (SPB), whereas deletion of GCPD-GCPF does not affect localization of -TuSC components. Thus, GCPD-GCPF do not tether the -TuSC to the SPB, but, rather, the -TuSC tethers them to the SPB. GCPD-GCPF exhibit a hierarchy of localization to the SPB. Deletion of GCPF eliminates GCPD-GCPE localization to the SPB, and deletion of GCPD eliminates GCPE (but not GCPF) localization. All GCPs localize normally in a GCPE deletion. We propose a model for the structure of the -tubulin complex and its attachment to polar microtubule organizing centers.

Key words: -tubulin complex, Spindle pole body, Centrosome, Microtubule, Microtubule organizing center

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