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Vol. 14, Issue 8, 3169-3179, August 2003

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TINA Interacts with the NIMA Kinase in Aspergillus nidulans and Negatively Regulates Astral Microtubules during Metaphase Arrest

Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

Submitted November 8, 2002; Revised March 13, 2003; Accepted March 28, 2003
Monitoring Editor: Mark Solomon

The tinA gene of Aspergillus nidulans encodes a protein that interacts with the NIMA mitotic protein kinase in a cell cycle-specific manner. Highly similar proteins are encoded in Neurospora crassa and Aspergillus fumigatus. TINA and NIMA preferentially interact in interphase and larger forms of TINA are generated during mitosis. Localization studies indicate that TINA is specifically localized to the spindle pole bodies only during mitosis in a microtubule-dependent manner. Deletion of tinA alone is not lethal but displays synthetic lethality in combination with the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome mutation bimE7. At the bimE7 metaphase arrest point, lack of TINA enhanced the nucleation of bundles of cytoplasmic microtubules from the spindle pole bodies. These microtubules interacted to form spindles joined in series via astral microtubules as revealed by live cell imaging. Because TINA is modified and localizes to the spindle pole bodies at mitosis, and lack of TINA causes enhanced production of cytoplasmic microtubules at metaphase arrest, we suggest TINA is involved in negative regulation of the astral microtubule organizing capacity of the spindle pole bodies during metaphase.

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^* Corresponding author. E-mail address: osmani.2{at}osu.edu.

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