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Vol. 11, Issue 4, 1225-1239, April 2000

A Mutation in gamma -Tubulin Alters Microtubule Dynamics and Organization and Is Synthetically Lethal with the Kinesin-like Protein Pkl1p

Janet L. Paluh,*dagger Eva Nogales,* Berl R. Oakley,Dagger Kent McDonald,§ Alison L. Pidoux,|| and W. Z. Cande*

 *Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3200;  Dagger Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210;  §Berkeley Electron Microscope Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3330; and  ||Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, Scotland

Mitotic segregation of chromosomes requires spindle pole functions for microtubule nucleation, minus end organization, and regulation of dynamics. gamma -Tubulin is essential for nucleation, and we now extend its role to these latter processes. We have characterized a mutation in gamma -tubulin that results in cold-sensitive mitotic arrest with an elongated bipolar spindle but impaired anaphase A. At 30°C cytoplasmic microtubule arrays are abnormal and bundle into single larger arrays. Three-dimensional time-lapse video microscopy reveals that microtubule dynamics are altered. Localization of the mutant gamma -tubulin is like the wild-type protein. Prediction of gamma -tubulin structure indicates that non-alpha /beta -tubulin protein-protein interactions could be affected. The kinesin-like protein (klp) Pkl1p localizes to the spindle poles and spindle and is essential for viability of the gamma -tubulin mutant and in multicopy for normal cell morphology at 30°C. Localization and function of Pkl1p in the mutant appear unaltered, consistent with a redundant function for this protein in wild type. Our data indicate a broader role for gamma -tubulin at spindle poles in regulating aspects of microtubule dynamics and organization. We propose that Pkl1p rescues an impaired function of gamma -tubulin that involves non-tubulin protein-protein interactions, presumably with a second motor, MAP, or MTOC component.


Online version of this article contains video material for Figure 5. Online version available at www.molbiolcell.org.

dagger Corresponding author. E-mail address: jlpaluh{at}socrates.berkeley.edu.


Molecular Biology of the Cell
Vol. 11, 1225-1239, April 2000
Copyright © 2000 by The American Society for Cell Biology



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