Pearson Neil J, Cullen C Fiona, Dzhindzhev Nikola S, Ohkura Hiroyuki
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK.
EMBO Rep. 2005 Nov;6(11):1058-63. doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400529. Epub 2005 Sep 9.
Conventional centrosomes are absent from a female meiotic spindle in many animals. Instead, chromosomes drive spindle assembly, but the molecular mechanism of this acentrosomal spindle formation is not well understood. We have screened female sterile mutations for defects in acentrosomal spindle formation in Drosophila female meiosis. One of them, remnants (rem), disrupted bipolar spindle morphology and chromosome alignment in non-activated oocytes. We found that rem encodes a conserved subunit of Cdc2 (Cks30A). As Drosophila oocytes arrest in metaphase I, the defect represents a new Cks function before metaphase-anaphase transition. In addition, we found that the essential pole components, Msps and D-TACC, were often mislocalized to the equator, which may explain part of the spindle defect. We showed that the second cks gene cks85A, in contrast, has an important role in mitosis. In conclusion, this study describes a new pre-anaphase role for a Cks in acentrosomal meiotic spindle formation.
在许多动物中,雌性减数分裂纺锤体没有传统的中心体。相反,染色体驱动纺锤体组装,但是这种无中心体纺锤体形成的分子机制尚未得到很好的理解。我们已经筛选了雌性不育突变体,以寻找果蝇雌性减数分裂中无中心体纺锤体形成的缺陷。其中一个突变体,remnants(rem),破坏了未激活卵母细胞中的双极纺锤体形态和染色体排列。我们发现rem编码Cdc2(Cks30A)的一个保守亚基。由于果蝇卵母细胞停滞在减数第一次分裂中期,该缺陷代表了中期-后期转换之前一种新的Cks功能。此外,我们发现关键的纺锤极组分Msps和D-TACC经常错误定位于赤道,这可能解释了部分纺锤体缺陷。相比之下,我们发现第二个cks基因cks85A在有丝分裂中具有重要作用。总之,本研究描述了Cks在无中心体减数分裂纺锤体形成中前期的一个新作用。