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Tubulin nucleotide status controls Sas-4-dependent pericentriolar material recruitment.


ABSTRACT: Regulated centrosome biogenesis is required for accurate cell division and for maintaining genome integrity. Centrosomes consist of a centriole pair surrounded by a protein network known as pericentriolar material (PCM). PCM assembly is a tightly regulated, critical step that determines the size and capability of centrosomes. Here, we report a role for tubulin in regulating PCM recruitment through the conserved centrosomal protein Sas-4. Tubulin directly binds to Sas-4; together they are components of cytoplasmic complexes of centrosomal proteins. A Sas-4 mutant, which cannot bind tubulin, enhances centrosomal protein complex formation and has abnormally large centrosomes with excessive activity. These results suggest that tubulin negatively regulates PCM recruitment. Whereas tubulin-GTP prevents Sas-4 from forming protein complexes, tubulin-GDP promotes it. Thus, the regulation of PCM recruitment by tubulin depends on its GTP/GDP-bound state. These results identify a role for tubulin in regulating PCM recruitment independent of its well-known role as a building block of microtubules. On the basis of its guanine-bound state, tubulin can act as a molecular switch in PCM recruitment.

SUBMITTER: Gopalakrishnan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3411905 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Tubulin nucleotide status controls Sas-4-dependent pericentriolar material recruitment.

Gopalakrishnan Jayachandran J   Chim Yiu-Cheung Frederick YC   Ha Andrew A   Basiri Marcus L ML   Lerit Dorothy A DA   Rusan Nasser M NM   Avidor-Reiss Tomer T  

Nature cell biology 20120624 8


Regulated centrosome biogenesis is required for accurate cell division and for maintaining genome integrity. Centrosomes consist of a centriole pair surrounded by a protein network known as pericentriolar material (PCM). PCM assembly is a tightly regulated, critical step that determines the size and capability of centrosomes. Here, we report a role for tubulin in regulating PCM recruitment through the conserved centrosomal protein Sas-4. Tubulin directly binds to Sas-4; together they are compone  ...[more]

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