Durkan Aidan, Koup Annalise, Bell Sarah E, Lyczak Rebecca
Biology, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States.
MicroPubl Biol. 2024 Apr 2;2024. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001167. eCollection 2024.
Puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidases have long been implicated in cell-cycle regulation, but the mechanism remains unknown. Here we show that mutations in the gene encoding the puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase, PAM-1 , cause chromosome segregation defects and an elongated mitosis in the one-cell embryo. Depleting a known regulator of the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC), MDF-2 (MAD2 in humans), restores normal mitotic timing to mutants but exacerbates the chromosome segregation defects. Thus, PAM-1 is required for proper attachment of chromosomes to the mitotic spindle and its absence triggers the SAC.
嘌呤霉素敏感氨基肽酶长期以来一直被认为与细胞周期调控有关,但其机制仍然未知。在此我们表明,编码嘌呤霉素敏感氨基肽酶PAM-1的基因突变会导致单细胞胚胎出现染色体分离缺陷和有丝分裂延长。耗尽纺锤体组装检查点(SAC)的已知调节因子MDF-2(人类中的MAD2)可使突变体的有丝分裂时间恢复正常,但会加剧染色体分离缺陷。因此,PAM-1是染色体正确附着于有丝分裂纺锤体所必需的,缺乏PAM-1会触发SAC。