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Vol. 13, Issue 11, 3859-3869, November 2002

epsilon -Tubulin Is an Essential Component of the Centriole

Susan K. Dutcher,*dagger Dagger Naomi S. Morrissette,§ Andrea M. Preble,dagger Craig Rackley,* and John Stanga*||

 *Department of Genetics,  §Department of Molecular Microbiology,Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110; and  dagger Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309

Centrioles and basal bodies are cylinders composed of nine triplet microtubule blades that play essential roles in the centrosome and in flagellar assembly. Chlamydomonas cells with the bld2-1 mutation fail to assemble doublet and triplet microtubules and have defects in cleavage furrow placement and meiosis. Using positional cloning, we have walked 720 kb and identified a 13.2-kb fragment that contains epsilon -tubulin and rescues the Bld2 defects. The bld2-1 allele has a premature stop codon and intragenic revertants replace the stop codon with glutamine, glutamate, or lysine. Polyclonal antibodies to epsilon -tubulin show peripheral labeling of full-length basal bodies and centrioles. Thus, epsilon -tubulin is encoded by the BLD2 allele and epsilon -tubulin plays a role in basal body/centriole morphogenesis.


Dagger Corresponding author. E-mail address: dutcher{at}genetics.wustl.edu.

|| The order of the authors is alphabetical because the experimental contributions are equally distributed.


Molecular Biology of the Cell
Vol. 13, 3859-3869, November 2002
Copyright © 2002 by The American Society for Cell Biology



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